Sentences with phrase «youth violence exposure»

Polyvictimization and Youth Violence Exposure Across Contexts.

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There are a number of valuable Webinars and presentation materials that medical home teams can access to increase their knowledge related to exposure to violence and its potentially lifelong impact on children and youth.

Stephanie Jones» research, anchored in prevention science, focuses on the effects of poverty and exposure to violence on children and youth's social, emotional, and behavioral development.

What we don't know can hurt them: Understanding children's and youth's exposure to violence and its implications for educational inequality

Due to effects of multigenerational poverty, limited educational and economic opportunities, high levels of drug use and trade, and pervasive community violence, urban youth in Baltimore and many US cities are at increased risk for exposure to a variety of stresses, including early life stress, recurrent and chronic stress, and exposure to significant and / or recurrent traumas.

Her research, anchored in prevention science, focuses on the effects of poverty and exposure to violence on children and youth's social, emotional, and behavioral development.

After adjustment for underlying differences in youth characteristics, respondents» alcohol use, propensity to respond to stimuli with anger, delinquent peers, parental monitoring, and exposures to violence in the community also were associated with significantly increased odds of concurrently reporting seriously violent behavior.

To assess adversity among inner - city low - income youth, clinicians should consider adding the following experiences to current ACE measures: single - parent homes; lack of parental love, support, and guidance; death of family members; exposure to violence, adult themes, and criminal behavior; date rape; personal victimization; bullying; economic hardship; discrimination; and poor health.

Victims have been shown to experience more post-traumatic stress and dissociation symptoms than non-abused children, 8 as well as more depression and conduct problems.9 They engage more often in at - risk sexual behaviours.10 Victims are also more prone to abusing substances, 11 and to suicide attempts.12 These mental health problems are likely to continue into adulthood.13 CSA victims are also more at risk than non-CSA youth to experience violence in their early romantic relationships; 14 women exposed to CSA have a two to three-fold risk of being sexually revictimized in adulthood compared with women without a history of CSA exposure.15

In one sample of South African rural youth, the prevalence of physical and sexual abuse was shown to be very high with 94.4 % of men exposed to physical abuse and 39.1 % of women to sexual abuse.46 More than a quarter of the adults who were interviewed endorsed exposure to childhood adversity (parental death, parental separation or parental divorce) in the SASH study.47 Significantly more women were prone to be victims of domestic violence than men.47 Women also reported twice as many suicidal attempts as the male participants in the SASH study.9

O'Donnell, D.A., Roberts, W.C. and Schwab - Stone, M.E. (2011) Community Violence Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Reactions among Gambian Youth: The Moderating Role of Positive School Climate.

Child Exposure to Violence Evidence Based Guide, Model Programs Guide, National Registry of Evidence - based Programs and Practices, What Works Clearinghouse, Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development (formerly Blueprints for Violence Prevention)

Child Exposure to Violence Evidence Based Guide, Model Programs Guide, National Registry of Evidence - based Programs and Practices, Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development (formerly Blueprints for Violence Prevention)

Future research could evaluate the specificity of specialist treatment interventions in larger samples, such as parent training for child behavioural problems, and cognitive or brief psychodynamic therapy for children with post-traumatic stress disorders following exposure to violence.32 Other groups of socially excluded children and families, such as children looked after by local authorities and youth offenders, could also benefit from similar designated, accessible interagency mental health services.

Violence, abuse, and crime exposure in a national sample of children and youth.

State policymakers now understand that children and youth in foster care face long - term risks from their exposure to violence, child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences and are anxious to identify and implement strategies that will minimize the long - term consequences for children and the costs to state budgets.

This survey used an enhanced version of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire, an inventory of childhood victimization.35 - 37 The Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire obtains reports on 48 forms of youth victimization covering 5 general areas of interest: conventional crime, maltreatment, victimization by peer and siblings, sexual victimization, and witnessing and exposure to violence.38 The survey also contains questions about adverse life events in the parent interview section and in a separate section on adversity.

Exposure to community violence and HIV sexual risks are two major public health concerns among youth.

Child Exposure to Violence Evidence Based Guide, Model Programs Guide, What Works Clearinghouse, Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development (formerly Blueprints for Violence Prevention)

This article provides an overview of the youth psychosocial deficits associated with exposure to community violence.

Aberrant emotional attention, particularly among individuals high on aggression, constitutes one such deficit; however, its robustness across race / ethnicity requires further investigation given findings that the psychopathy construct manifests differently across race (Sullivan and Kosson 2006), and emotional attention is susceptible to the influence of adverse environmental factors such as violence exposure that is more common among ethnic minority youth (Kimonis et al. in Development and Psychopathology, 20, 569 — 589, 2008b).

[jounal] Gorman - Smith, D / 1998 / The role of exposure to community violence and developmental problems among inner - city youth / Development and psychopathology 10: 101 ~ 116

However, CU traits were related to deficits in emotional processing in youth high on aggression and youth high on exposure to community violence.