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Risk and protective factors for child maltreatment: A review
In the child maltreatment research literature, poverty is often measured as annual household income (e.g., income below the Federal Poverty Level), primary health insurance type (e.g., public vs. private), or participation in public benefits programs (e.g., Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)). 32 More recently, child maltreatment ...
Child Maltreatment and Long-Term Physical and Mental Health Outcomes
Child maltreatment: theory and research on the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect. New York: Cambridge University Press; 1989. pp. 647-684. ... Irwin M, Spilsbury JC, Korbin JE. How neighborhoods influence child maltreatment: a review of the literature and alternative pathways. Child Abuse Negl. 2007; 31 (11-12):1117-1142 ...
Improving measurement of child abuse and neglect: A systematic review
Rigorous measurement of child maltreatment is complex, but is essential to inform prevention efforts and drive nationwide social change [2,14,29,36,37]. Recent research has reviewed global prevalence estimates [2,31], the nature of population health surveys exploring consequences of child maltreatment , and approaches in studies of youth ...
Long-term Cognitive, Psychological, and Health Outcomes Associated With
Child maltreatment is a major public health issue worldwide, with serious and often debilitating long-term consequences for psychosocial development as well as physical and mental health. 1 In the United States alone, 3.5 million children are reported for suspected maltreatment each year, with an annual substantiated maltreatment rate of 9.1 per 1000 children. 2 Some of the long-term adverse ...
Future Directions in Child Maltreatment Research
ABSTRACT. Child maltreatment (or child abuse and neglect) is a common area of interest in clinical child psychology. Research has examined the causes and consequences as well as the myriad risk factors and interventions that are effective in supporting child maltreatment victims and families. Child maltreatment is unique, however, from the ...
Child, parent and contextual factors associated with child protection
1 INTRODUCTION. To date, there is no international consensus on the definition of child maltreatment (Rumble et al., 2018), or the appropriate use of terminology, which is partly affected by differing laws and legal frameworks across jurisdictions.The term "child maltreatment" has been generally accepted in the international literature as it encompasses all types of abuse and neglect ...
Childhood maltreatment and its associations with trauma-related
Child Abuse Negl. 51, 31-40 (2016). ... T. L. Comparing Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform to conventional data collection methods in the health and medical research literature. J. Gen.
Child Maltreatment, Peer Victimization, and Mental Health
Child maltreatment is a universal problem and can have profound negative and long-lasting consequences on children's mental health (Cyr et al., 2010; Norman et al., 2012).We do not yet have a clear mechanistic understanding of how maltreatment increases risk of mental health problems or why some children with maltreatment experience are more vulnerable to developing mental health problems ...
Child Maltreatment-Focused Intervention Research: A Systematic
This systematic literature review aimed to identify, analyze, and summarize the preventive programs and intervention practices between 2009 and 2021, addressing maltreatment in children from birth ...
Poverty and child maltreatment: a systematic review
Haksoon Ahn is an Associate Professor with the University of Maryland, School of Social Work. Her research interests include child and family welfare and advanced quantitative analysis utilizing large-scale datasets. As a principal investigator, Haksoon has been leading a range of research projects funded by the Maryland Department of Human Resources Social Services Administration, such as the ...
A Systematic Review of Measures of Child Neglect
Research into child maltreatment measures has raised concerns about validity, reliability, and usability of tools and the quality of the research undertaken. ... Taylor J., Scott J. (2010). Recognition of neglect and early response: Overview of a systematic review of the literature. Child & Family Social Work, 15(2), 248-257. https://doi.org ...
Child Maltreatment, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and the Public
This study provides a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed research articles from 2011 to 2021 that examine child maltreatment or adverse childhood experiences from a public health perspective. Twelve articles met the inclusion criteria. The evidence was synthesized and reported following the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis procedure (PRISMA ...
Risk and Protective Factors for Child Maltreatment: a Review
Purpose of Review The purpose of this review was to synthesize the empirical literature regarding key risk and protective factors for child maltreatment at each level of the socioecological model and to identify directions for future research and practice. Recent Findings Prior research has largely focused on risk and protective factors at the individual and interpersonal levels of the ...
Preventing child maltreatment: Key conclusions from a systematic
Child maltreatment (CM) is a worldwide social problem and there is a large consensus that its prevention is of crucial importance. The current literature review highlights CM prevention studies that target practitioners, with the aim of assessing the knowledge in this area, informing future efforts and benefiting the international task of mitigating CM.
The impact of child maltreatment on the mental and physical health of
There are five widely recognised types of child maltreatment on which most published research and clinical literature in this review are based. These are: (a) physical abuse (b) sexual abuse ... Research shows that child maltreatment rates have varied considerably over recent years. In the UK, an unprecedented rise in reported cases of child ...
Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment
The second study (n = 1618) found that the child maltreatment intervention was associated with slightly increased risk of a serious adverse event (defined as primarily clinical events associated with pregnancy and infancy period) vs usual care (43% vs 38%; calculated RR, 1.15 [95% CI, 1.03-1.25]). 33 However, no adverse events were judged to be ...
Deciding on child maltreatment: A literature review on methods that
We conducted a systematic review of the published literature on decision-making using PsychINFO and MEDLINE from 2000 through May 2014. We included reviews and quantitative research studies that investigated methods aimed at improving professional decision-making on child abuse and neglect in child welfare and child protection. Although many ...
PDF Child Maltreatment, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and the Public
This study provides a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed research articles from 2011 to 2021 that examine child maltreatment or adverse childhood experi-ences from a public health perspective. Twelve articles met the inclusion criteria. The evidence was synthesized and reported following the preferred reporting items
Understanding Childhood Maltreatment: Literature Review and Practical
An overview of child maltreatment and review of the. literature related to children who have experienced maltreatment was provided including: (a) type of maltreatment, (b) prevalence of maltreatment, (c) effects of maltreatment, (d) treatment approaches, and (f) relevance for educators. The methods and results for.
Research on resilience to child maltreatment: empirical ...
Objective: To review the current research literature on resilience to maltreatment in childhood and adolescence. Method: First, this paper addresses the methodological issues applicable to this area of research. Second, it reviews the empirical literature on the protective factors believed to contribute to resilience to maltreatment and offers commentary on specific issues raised in each study.
Neglected Children: Research, Practice, and Policy
Although child neglect is the most common form of child abuse, the extant research literature has mostly ignored this form of child maltreatment. Abstract. Accordingly, this book focuses on child neglect by presenting a comprehensive and critical portrait of the phenomenon of child neglect, based on theory, research, and clinical practice. ...
The Effectiveness of Psychological Intervention for Women Who Committed
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is considered a major public health problem within research and politics. The high prevalence rates and devastating outcomes for victims, their families, and society make CSA a worrying phenomenon (Barth et al., 2013; Hailes et al., 2019).According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO, 2022), approximately 1 in 5 women and 1 in 13 men disclose experiencing ...
4 Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect
Since the 1993 National Research Council (NRC) report on child abuse and neglect was issued, dramatic advances have been made in understanding the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect, including advances in the neural, genomic, behavioral, psychologic, and social sciences. These advances have begun to inform the scientific literature, offering new insights into the neural and ...
Child maltreatment among deaf and hard-of-hearing adolescent students
Objective: Child abuse and neglect have several short- and long-term consequences for the victim. Though Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing children are at higher risk of being maltreated as compared to hearing children, little research in Saudi Arabia has focused on this population. To determine the prevalence of child maltreatment and to examine its association with depression and anxiety among a ...
What Helps Children and Young People to Disclose their Experience of
A Systematic Scoping Review. Using the framework developed by Arksey and O'Malley (), a systematic scoping review methodology was used to identify the available research literature on the disclosure of child sexual abuse.To clarify the use of the term 'systematic' in the context of a scoping review, we adopted a methodologically sound process for searching the literature to scope the ...
Research reveals one in six children harmed by alcohol
New research undertaken by La Trobe University's Centre for Alcohol Policy Research shows one in six children (17.1%) have experienced harm from the alcohol use of adults around them, with two-thirds of harm being attributed to an adult in their home.. The research, which has been published in the Addiction Journal, found that various harms were reported, as disclosed by their caregiver ...
Child abuse: A classic case report with literature review
Abstract. Child abuse and neglect are serious global problems and can be in the form of physical, sexual, emotional or just neglect in providing for the child's needs. These factors can leave the child with serious, long-lasting psychological damage. In the present case report, a 12-year-old orphaned boy was physically abused by a close ...
Understanding the Dynamics of Domestic Violence During the First Year
The study comprehensively overviews North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and worldwide research. The literature reveals an alarming increase in domestic violence victimization during the pandemic in most regions and studies, exacerbating pre-existing vulnerabilities. ... Child Abuse and Neglect, 116(P2), 104800. https://doi.org ...
Effective Nature-Based Outdoor Play and Learning Environments ...
This three-phase research holds the promise of addressing this issue. Phase 1 reviews the available limited literature on below-three children's outdoor play and learning environments and summarizes their design implications. Phase 2 extracts effective design guidelines and identifies assessment indicators from the Phase 1 studies.
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In the child maltreatment research literature, poverty is often measured as annual household income (e.g., income below the Federal Poverty Level), primary health insurance type (e.g., public vs. private), or participation in public benefits programs (e.g., Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)). 32 More recently, child maltreatment ...
Child maltreatment: theory and research on the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect. New York: Cambridge University Press; 1989. pp. 647-684. ... Irwin M, Spilsbury JC, Korbin JE. How neighborhoods influence child maltreatment: a review of the literature and alternative pathways. Child Abuse Negl. 2007; 31 (11-12):1117-1142 ...
Rigorous measurement of child maltreatment is complex, but is essential to inform prevention efforts and drive nationwide social change [2,14,29,36,37]. Recent research has reviewed global prevalence estimates [2,31], the nature of population health surveys exploring consequences of child maltreatment , and approaches in studies of youth ...
Child maltreatment is a major public health issue worldwide, with serious and often debilitating long-term consequences for psychosocial development as well as physical and mental health. 1 In the United States alone, 3.5 million children are reported for suspected maltreatment each year, with an annual substantiated maltreatment rate of 9.1 per 1000 children. 2 Some of the long-term adverse ...
ABSTRACT. Child maltreatment (or child abuse and neglect) is a common area of interest in clinical child psychology. Research has examined the causes and consequences as well as the myriad risk factors and interventions that are effective in supporting child maltreatment victims and families. Child maltreatment is unique, however, from the ...
1 INTRODUCTION. To date, there is no international consensus on the definition of child maltreatment (Rumble et al., 2018), or the appropriate use of terminology, which is partly affected by differing laws and legal frameworks across jurisdictions.The term "child maltreatment" has been generally accepted in the international literature as it encompasses all types of abuse and neglect ...
Child Abuse Negl. 51, 31-40 (2016). ... T. L. Comparing Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform to conventional data collection methods in the health and medical research literature. J. Gen.
Child maltreatment is a universal problem and can have profound negative and long-lasting consequences on children's mental health (Cyr et al., 2010; Norman et al., 2012).We do not yet have a clear mechanistic understanding of how maltreatment increases risk of mental health problems or why some children with maltreatment experience are more vulnerable to developing mental health problems ...
This systematic literature review aimed to identify, analyze, and summarize the preventive programs and intervention practices between 2009 and 2021, addressing maltreatment in children from birth ...
Haksoon Ahn is an Associate Professor with the University of Maryland, School of Social Work. Her research interests include child and family welfare and advanced quantitative analysis utilizing large-scale datasets. As a principal investigator, Haksoon has been leading a range of research projects funded by the Maryland Department of Human Resources Social Services Administration, such as the ...
Research into child maltreatment measures has raised concerns about validity, reliability, and usability of tools and the quality of the research undertaken. ... Taylor J., Scott J. (2010). Recognition of neglect and early response: Overview of a systematic review of the literature. Child & Family Social Work, 15(2), 248-257. https://doi.org ...
This study provides a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed research articles from 2011 to 2021 that examine child maltreatment or adverse childhood experiences from a public health perspective. Twelve articles met the inclusion criteria. The evidence was synthesized and reported following the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis procedure (PRISMA ...
Purpose of Review The purpose of this review was to synthesize the empirical literature regarding key risk and protective factors for child maltreatment at each level of the socioecological model and to identify directions for future research and practice. Recent Findings Prior research has largely focused on risk and protective factors at the individual and interpersonal levels of the ...
Child maltreatment (CM) is a worldwide social problem and there is a large consensus that its prevention is of crucial importance. The current literature review highlights CM prevention studies that target practitioners, with the aim of assessing the knowledge in this area, informing future efforts and benefiting the international task of mitigating CM.
There are five widely recognised types of child maltreatment on which most published research and clinical literature in this review are based. These are: (a) physical abuse (b) sexual abuse ... Research shows that child maltreatment rates have varied considerably over recent years. In the UK, an unprecedented rise in reported cases of child ...
The second study (n = 1618) found that the child maltreatment intervention was associated with slightly increased risk of a serious adverse event (defined as primarily clinical events associated with pregnancy and infancy period) vs usual care (43% vs 38%; calculated RR, 1.15 [95% CI, 1.03-1.25]). 33 However, no adverse events were judged to be ...
We conducted a systematic review of the published literature on decision-making using PsychINFO and MEDLINE from 2000 through May 2014. We included reviews and quantitative research studies that investigated methods aimed at improving professional decision-making on child abuse and neglect in child welfare and child protection. Although many ...
This study provides a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed research articles from 2011 to 2021 that examine child maltreatment or adverse childhood experi-ences from a public health perspective. Twelve articles met the inclusion criteria. The evidence was synthesized and reported following the preferred reporting items
An overview of child maltreatment and review of the. literature related to children who have experienced maltreatment was provided including: (a) type of maltreatment, (b) prevalence of maltreatment, (c) effects of maltreatment, (d) treatment approaches, and (f) relevance for educators. The methods and results for.
Objective: To review the current research literature on resilience to maltreatment in childhood and adolescence. Method: First, this paper addresses the methodological issues applicable to this area of research. Second, it reviews the empirical literature on the protective factors believed to contribute to resilience to maltreatment and offers commentary on specific issues raised in each study.
Although child neglect is the most common form of child abuse, the extant research literature has mostly ignored this form of child maltreatment. Abstract. Accordingly, this book focuses on child neglect by presenting a comprehensive and critical portrait of the phenomenon of child neglect, based on theory, research, and clinical practice. ...
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is considered a major public health problem within research and politics. The high prevalence rates and devastating outcomes for victims, their families, and society make CSA a worrying phenomenon (Barth et al., 2013; Hailes et al., 2019).According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO, 2022), approximately 1 in 5 women and 1 in 13 men disclose experiencing ...
Since the 1993 National Research Council (NRC) report on child abuse and neglect was issued, dramatic advances have been made in understanding the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect, including advances in the neural, genomic, behavioral, psychologic, and social sciences. These advances have begun to inform the scientific literature, offering new insights into the neural and ...
Objective: Child abuse and neglect have several short- and long-term consequences for the victim. Though Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing children are at higher risk of being maltreated as compared to hearing children, little research in Saudi Arabia has focused on this population. To determine the prevalence of child maltreatment and to examine its association with depression and anxiety among a ...
A Systematic Scoping Review. Using the framework developed by Arksey and O'Malley (), a systematic scoping review methodology was used to identify the available research literature on the disclosure of child sexual abuse.To clarify the use of the term 'systematic' in the context of a scoping review, we adopted a methodologically sound process for searching the literature to scope the ...
New research undertaken by La Trobe University's Centre for Alcohol Policy Research shows one in six children (17.1%) have experienced harm from the alcohol use of adults around them, with two-thirds of harm being attributed to an adult in their home.. The research, which has been published in the Addiction Journal, found that various harms were reported, as disclosed by their caregiver ...
Abstract. Child abuse and neglect are serious global problems and can be in the form of physical, sexual, emotional or just neglect in providing for the child's needs. These factors can leave the child with serious, long-lasting psychological damage. In the present case report, a 12-year-old orphaned boy was physically abused by a close ...
The study comprehensively overviews North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and worldwide research. The literature reveals an alarming increase in domestic violence victimization during the pandemic in most regions and studies, exacerbating pre-existing vulnerabilities. ... Child Abuse and Neglect, 116(P2), 104800. https://doi.org ...
This three-phase research holds the promise of addressing this issue. Phase 1 reviews the available limited literature on below-three children's outdoor play and learning environments and summarizes their design implications. Phase 2 extracts effective design guidelines and identifies assessment indicators from the Phase 1 studies.
The FBI released detailed data on over 14 million criminal offenses for 2023 reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program by participating law enforcement agencies.