Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
February, 2017
Ecological Influences of child sexual abuse
Ecological Influences of child sexual abuse Risk of sexual abuse can be conceptualized as a result of various external influences that are experienced by children internally as potentiating or protective factors. In other words, children are at risk of sexual abuse because of factors that occur outside the child (i.e,, at the level of the […]
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Characteristics of an ecological and transactional model of child abuse and neglect
Characteristics of an ecological and transactional model of child abuse and neglect In 1980, Belsky developed an ecological model of child abuse and neglect. This paper was followed by Cicchetti and Rizley’s 1981 paper in which a transactional model of child abuse and neglect was developed. In more recent years, Cicchetti and Lynch (1993) combined […]
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Dynamics of families with intrafamilial abuse
Dynamics of families with intrafamilial abuse One final method of understanding intrafamilial abuse is to compare dynamics of families in which incest occurs to dynamics in other types of families. Various studies have now compared families with nuclear abuse to those with other intrafamilial abuse (Alexander & Lupfer, 1987; Ray, Jackson, & Townsley, 1991), or […]
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child sexual abuse by uncles and male cousins
child sexual abuse by uncles and male cousins Uncles and male cousins are the other relatives who frequently commit sexual abuse. While uncles and cousins abuse at approximately the same rate as fathers (Russell, 1986), there is almost nothing in the literature about abuse by these extended family members. There are only two known studies […]
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