Child abuse and neglect

Child Abuse and Somatoform Disorders

by Derek Chechak

Early life stressors and genetic influences on the development of bipolar disorder: The roles of childhood abuse and brain-derived neurotrophic factor

by Richard Liu

Number of childhood abuse perpetrators and the occurrence of depressive episodes in adulthood

by Richard Liu

PRACTICAL COUNSELING SKILLS AND APPROACHES

by Daniel Keeran MSW

By Daniel Keeran, MSW, President, College of Mental Health Counselling

This is a convenient list of practical counseling articles with clickable hypertext to access the full version. Topics... more This is a convenient list of practical counseling articles with clickable hypertext to access the full version. Topics include:

What To Say When Dying,
Working With Anger,
Counseling Depression,
Counseling Domestic Violence,
Healing Childhood Loss of Caring,
Healing Grief,
Healing Sexual Abuse,
Effective Counseling Skills,
Solving Issues in Marriage,
Solving Problems,
Steps To Prevent Suicide,
Steps for Healing Adultery

Neurobehavioural and cognitive function is linked to childhood trauma in homeless adults

by Graham Pluck

“Nothing really matters”: Emotional numbing as a link between trauma exposure and callousness in delinquent youth

by Stephen Becker

Patricia K. Kerig, Diana C. Bennett, Mamie Thompson, Stephen P. Becker.
Journal of Traumatic Stress.
doi: 10.1002/jts.21700

This study investigated the interrelations among trauma exposure, emotional numbing, and callous–unemotional traits in... more This study investigated the interrelations among trauma exposure, emotional numbing, and callous–unemotional traits in a sample of 276 youth (68 girls and 208 boys) recruited from 2 juvenile detention centers. Youth completed interview measures of trauma exposure and betrayal trauma, as well as self-report measures of emotional numbing and callous–unemotional traits. Results of path analyses using nonparametric bootstrapping procedures indicated findings consistent with the hypothesis that the association between trauma exposure and callous–unemotional traits was mediated by the general numbing of emotions, R2 = .40, and also specifically by numbing of sadness, R2 = .27. In addition, further analyses indicated that numbing of fear, R2 = .18, and sadness, R2 = .26, statistically mediated the relations to callous–unemotional traits only for those traumatic experiences involving betrayal. Gender was not found to moderate these effects.

Early Childhood: Laying the Foundations for Life

by Katie Thomas

The paediatrician’s role in safeguarding children and young people exposed to domestic violence

by Lorraine Radford

‘Recognising and responding to child maltreatment’

by Lorraine Radford

co-authored with Gilbert, R. Kemp, A. Thoburn, J. Sidebotham, P.  Glaser, D. Macmillan, H.

Social workers' perspectives on parental engagement when children are at risk in Romanian society (2012). Child and Family Social Work. Article first published online: 30 MAR 2012 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2012.00851.x

by Salomea Popoviciu

co-authored with D. Birle, I. Popoviciu & D. Bara

This paper presents the findings of a study that looked at social workers' perspectives on parental engagement in... more This paper presents the findings of a study that looked at social workers' perspectives on parental engagement in making the difficult choice of either taking the child into care or keeping the family together. The paper first explores the specific context of children at risk in Romanian society and explains that in this middle-income nation there is an absence of evidence-based risk assessment tools, which prompts social workers to use their own ‘common sense’ risk assessment indicators. The findings of this small-scale, non-representative study on several public non-voluntary child protection services in Romania suggest that social workers' perceptions of specific dimensions of parental engagement in non-voluntary child protection may influence service delivery decisions and outcomes.

Social workers' perspectives on parental engagement when children are at risk in Romanian society

by Ioan Popoviciu

S. Popoviciu, D. Birle & D. Bara (2012), Published in Child and Family Social Work

This paper presents the findings of a study that looked at social workers' perspectives on parental engagement in... more This paper presents the findings of a study that looked at social workers' perspectives on parental engagement in making the difficult choice of either taking the child into care or keeping the family together. The paper first explores the specific context of children at risk in Romanian society and explains that in this middle-income nation there is an absence of evidence-based risk assessment tools, which prompts social workers to use their own ‘common sense’ risk assessment indicators. The findings of this small-scale, non-representative study on several public non-voluntary child protection services in Romania suggest that social workers' perceptions of specific dimensions of parental engagement in non-voluntary child protection may influence service delivery decisions and outcomes.

Do shared etiological factors contribute to the relationship between sexual orientation and depression?

by Brendan Zietsch

Are researchers bound by child abuse reporting laws?

by Alan M. Steinberg, Ph.D.

OBJECTIVE: To discuss issues concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse in research settings.

METHOD:... more OBJECTIVE: To discuss issues concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse in research settings.

METHOD: An overview of existing Federal and State statutes regarding mandatory reporting of child abuse is presented. A critical review of the literature addresses the following issues: (1) whether researchers have a moral duty to place the health and safety of children above concerns about confidentiality and the benefits of obtaining new knowledge; (2) whether the Certificate of Confidentiality preempts reporting requirements; (3) whether researchers who are not health professionals (such as child developmentalists, psychobiologists, neuroscientists) should be required to report; and (4) whether researchers should be required to expand their protocols to include more in-depth investigation of potential abuse.

RESULTS: Existing child abuse reporting laws do not specifically designate researchers as among the category of individuals mandated to report suspected child abuse. Currently, Human Subject Protection Committees and Federal funding agencies are tending to interpret reporting laws as applying to researchers, including requiring that research subjects are informed of this responsibility in consenting procedures. It is unclear whether the Certificate of Confidentiality preempts child abuse reporting laws.

CONCLUSION: The authors recommend that legislatures specifically designate researchers as mandated reporters to ensure more uniform reporting practices in research settings. For both investigators and Human Subject Protection Committees, inclusion of researchers among the categories of those mandated to report would also help address issues of immunity from civil and criminal liability for "good faith" reports that turn out to be false and injurious.

Papadopoulos Review

by Robbie Duschinsky

Draft Only; forthcoming Journal of Social Policy

This paper offers a discursive policy analysis of the 2010 UK Home Office ‘Sexualisation of Young People’ Review,... more This paper offers a discursive policy analysis of the 2010 UK Home Office ‘Sexualisation of Young People’ Review, authored by Linda Papadopoulos. It will scrutinise the narrative presented by the text of the danger posed by cultural representations to healthy development, and trace the way that the text links this danger to catastrophic outcomes: child sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking. Examining this narrative, the article will propose that that the UK Review deploys spatial metaphors to naturalise a gendered account of childhood, sexuality and danger, evoking the creeping influence of a corrupting culture on a girl’s most private self. The article will also demonstrate that this spatial narrative underpins the epistemological structure of the text – its separation of the primary from the secondary, the real from the artificial.

Da Punição Física ao Abuso Fisico (From Punitive Practices to Abusive Behaviours)

by Ricardo Barroso

Published in "Portuguese Review of Criminal Sciences, 2010"

Fracture Patterns on the Infant Porcine Skull Following Severe Blunt Impact*

by Nicholas Passalacqua

Case, teacher and school characteristics influencing teachers' detection and reporting of child physical abuse and neglect: Results from an Australian survey

by Mehdi Rassafiani

Teachers reporting suspected child sexual abuse: results of a three-state study

by Mehdi Rassafiani

Teachers' Attitudes toward Reporting Child Sexual Abuse: Problems with Existing Research Leading to New Scale Development

by Mehdi Rassafiani

Newsletter Nº 19, Septiembre de 2010 / ADOPCIONES, FAMILIAS, INFANCIAS / ESTRATEGIAS DE PARTICIPACIÓN Y PREVENCIÓN DE RACISMO EN LAS ESCUELAS

by AFIN Barcelona

Dirección Newsletter: Esther Grau, Diana Marre y Beatriz San Román
Contenidos: Margarita del Olmo y Pilar Cucalón... more Dirección Newsletter: Esther Grau, Diana Marre y Beatriz San Román
Contenidos: Margarita del Olmo y Pilar Cucalón Tirado
Edición, Formato y Difusión: Sofía Gaggiotti
ISSN: 2013-2956

Estrategias de participación y prevención de racismo en las escuelas (http://www.proyectos.cchs.csic.es/integracion) es el título de un proyecto de investigación que estamos desarrollando financiadas por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (FFI2009-08762). El Grupo AFIN nos ha ofrecido la oportunidad de difundir nuestro trabajo entre los lectores y lectoras de la Newsletter AFIN, y vamos a hacerlo utilizando imágenes, captadas por nosotras mismas a lo largo de nuestros
trabajos de campo, y de pequeños textos que pretendemos inviten a la reflexión.
Nuestros objetivos son: analizar el proceso de participación de los alumnos y alumnas en el sistema escolar, identificar los obstáculos que impiden una participación equitativa de todos los alumnos y alumnas, hacer propuestas para superarlos y valorar la producción científica y los recursos para la enseñanza/aprendizaje que ya existe.