Psychiatric Implications of Media Ethics Code Policies Regarding the Publication of Child Abuse Victim Data: A Universal Deontological Model Code
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2012
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The. UC Davis Journal of Juvenile Law & Policy
Abstract
This article examines several assumptions in dozens of countries’ and private corporate and organizational media ethics codes regarding child victims and demonstrates that those generalizations are both false and how they increase child victims’ mental health problems. Finally, this article proposes a model universal media ethics code for reporting on child victims which is consistent with the psychiatric literature regarding that vulnerable population.
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child abuse, juveniles, mental health, media, ethics, child and adolescent psychiatry
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Patton, W. W. (2012). Psychiatric Implications of Media Ethics Code Policies Regarding the Publication of Child Abuse Victim Data: A Universal Deontological Model Code, The UC Davis Journal of Juvenile Law & Policy, 16, 427.