Maltreated Children Use More Grammatical Negations.
Not exact matches
Spanking: Parenthood's Dirty Little (and Common) Secret This week a study was released saying when
children are disciplined
using harsh physical punishment like spanking, they are at higher risk of depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and other mental health problems - even if they aren't otherwise abused or
maltreated.
This week a study was released saying when
children are disciplined
using harsh physical punishment like spanking, they are at higher risk of depression, anxiety, substance abuse and other mental health problems — even if they aren't otherwise abused or
maltreated.
In a related study published recently in the journal
Child Abuse and Neglect, Valentino found that
maltreating parents, many of whom had experienced childhood trauma, could successfully be taught to
use more elaborative and emotion - rich reminiscing with their preschool - aged
children, which has been linked to a
children's subsequent cognitive abilities in a number of areas including memory, language and literacy development.
Stephen Magura and Alexandre Laudet argue that in - utero exposure to cocaine and other drugs can lead to congenital deficits that may make a
child more difficult to care for and, therefore, more prone to being
maltreated.9 Parenting skills can also suffer among substance - abusing parents, who may be insufficiently responsive to their infants.10 Caregivers who abuse substances also may place a higher priority on their drug
use than on caring for their
children, which can lead them to neglect their
children's needs for such things as food, clothing, hygiene, and medical care.
Recent retrospective and prospective studies have identified strong associations between cumulative traumatic childhood events, such as
child maltreatment and family dysfunction, and adult physical disease, such as adult heart disease, liver disease, autoimmune diseases and sexually transmitted infections.36 - 41 Mental health disease and the
use of psychotropic medications are also greater in adults who had been
maltreated as children.42 - 45
Finally, although out - of - home care is one of the most widely
used interventions for
maltreated children, there is limited evidence available, which is mostly focused on the benefits of foster care and adaptations of this model.
Research studies that
use an experimental approach may clarify the precise nature of the stress response in high - risk
children and its association with psychiatric disorders.1 Fisher et al20 suggest that a family - based intervention delivered to
maltreated preschoolers might normalize perturbed diurnal cortisol patterns.
Although other fields have
used synthetic cohort life tables to document the cumulative risk of experiencing an event, no such attempts have been made
using official
child maltreatment data.23 Therefore, the purpose of this study was to
use synthetic cohort life tables to determine the percentage of US
children confirmed as
maltreated according to CPS from birth to 18 years of age.
For more than 35 years, Dr. Jones Harden has focused on the developmental and mental health needs of young
children at environmental risk, specifically
children who have been
maltreated, are in the foster care system, or have been exposed to multiple family risks such as maternal depression, parent substance
use, and poverty.
The
Child Trauma Academy is currently training clinicians to be NMT certified and
use this biologically informed, developmentally sensitive approach to heal
maltreated children.
The rates of alcohol
use and abuse are elevated among
maltreated adolescents involved with the
child welfare system.
Foster Cline and associates at the Attachment Center at Evergreen, Colorado began to promote the
use of the same or similar holding techniques with adopted,
maltreated children who were said to have an attachment disorder (not to be confused with DSM - IV's reactive attachment disorder).
Some researchers have argued that associations between abuse and adjustment problems can be explained by reporting biases because many studies of the effects of physical maltreatment
use samples for which maltreatment is identified by referral to social service agencies.6 Of the community - wide population of
maltreated children, those who are referred may represent a biased, more problematic subgroup.