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National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect Data System
National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect Data System The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN), through a cooperative and voluntary federal and state partnership, developed the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1997). An annual report from these findings has been issued since […]
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Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3)
Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3) The most extensive survey of the incidence of child sexual abuse is the Third National Incidence Study (NIS-3) (Sedlak & Broadhurst, 1996). Data for this study were collected during a three-month period in 1993. In a nationally representative sample of 42 counties, child protective services […]
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INCIDENCE OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
INCIDENCE OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE Incidence studies vary in their ability to capture the number of abuse cases that come to the attention of professionals. There are three primary, ongoing attempts to determine the incidence rate of child sexual abuse. The most comprehensive is the National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect, done every […]
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How to measuring child sexual abuse
How to measuring child sexual abuse Once the criteria for the definition of child sexual abuse are determined, the next issue is how best to determine whether the respondent has been sexually abused. The issue concerning accurate disclosure can probably be subsumed within two categories—methodological and ideological concerns. From an ideological standpoint, the issue of […]
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Definition of Child Sexual Abuse
Definition of Child Sexual Abuse Researchers have not yet reached a consensus on how inclusive the definition of child sexual abuse should be. "One of the major difficulties in assessing the extent of abuse and its effects is that the definition of sexual abuse is not consistent in the literature" (Craine, Henson, Colliver, & MacLean, […]
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Feminist Theory of child sexual abuse
Feminist Theory of child sexual abuse In the 1970s and 1980s, feminist writers began to discuss the relationship of child sexual abuse to the social environment (Herman, 1981; Rush, 1980). Feminists believed that child sexual abuse was symptomatic of a patriarchal society in which males had power over females. One of the ways in which […]
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Incest As a Symptom of Family Pathology
Incest As a Symptom of Family Pathology Another repository for blame is the family itself. This conceptualization is most often found in the early literature on family systems theory in which incest was viewed as a homeostatic device that maintained equilibrium within the family (Carper, 1979). Central to this hypothesis was the concept of circular […]
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Interventions for high–risk infants and parents
Interventions for high–risk infants and parents Once a family has been identified as having high risks, very often there are many services asked to be involved, including mental health consultants. Lieberman (1998) suggests there are three goals for the infant mental health consultant: • to identify the developmental, psychological and relationship-based factors affecting the child […]
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What makes an environment high risk for an infant?
What makes an environment high risk for an infant? High-risk environments for infants are usually multifaceted, with, for example, psychological risks compounding or contributing to social risk or disadvantage. Extreme risk in one area is possible. Such environments include interacting risks in the biological, psychological and social domains, for example, an absence of parental empathy […]
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Attachment patterns and longitudinal risk
Attachment patterns and longitudinal risk In families with high levels of socioeconomic risk and disadvantage, particularly where the mothers have histories of abuse and/or neglect in their own backgrounds, there is increased risk of a disorganised attachment relationship developing. This predisposes the child to long-term emotional and behavioural problems. The parenting style of young women […]
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