Sentences with phrase «abuse victimisation»

This longitudinal study examined physical, emotional, sexual and multiple abuse victimisation in a community - based sample of South African adolescents.

The study will focus on physical, emotional and sexual abuse victimisation.

Adolescence is an important decade in a child's development, marking the period of transition from childhood to adulthood.7 Adolescents are a particularly vulnerable group, experiencing a third of all new HIV infections worldwide, 8 high levels of violence, lower school attendance and enrolment than primary schoolchildren, early marriage and higher levels9 of sexual abuse victimisation.10 Furthermore, adolescence is a time where the intergenerational transmission of poverty, violence victimisation and perpetration, gender inequalities and educational disadvantage manifest themselves.9

Child physical and emotional abuse victimisation were measured (at both baseline and follow - up assessments) using five items from the UNICEF Measures for National - level Monitoring of OVC.23 Participants were asked to state frequency of abuse in the past year (never, happened but not past year, at least once, monthly and weekly).

Current child abuse prevention efforts often focus on younger children, but our results suggest that adolescents are also vulnerable to abuse victimisation (with 32.3 % of the adolescents in this sample experiencing at least one type of frequent abuse victimisation).

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The JW Private Practice strives to contribute to a society in which every parent / caregiver is able to raise resilient and well - balanced children so that they are able to develop their full potential and be protected from victimisation and abuse in communities free from violence.

The AFRICOM - commissioned study perpetuates victimisation by presuming to act in the best interest of survivors of sexual abuse with no regard to these voices.

Accordingly, the current system disadvantages Indigenous people from both ends - it has a deleterious effect on Indigenous communities through over-representation of Indigenous people in custody combined with the lack of attention it gives to the high rate of Indigenous victimisation, particularly through violence and abuse in communities.

Given that a high percentage of young people who abuse others have themselves been abused in some form or other, interventions must address issues relating an individual's experiences of victimisation in addition to their abusive behaviour.

Evidence has shown a consistent connection between child sexual victimisation and substance abuse.

The literature also points to alarming rates of abuse and victimisation of young non-heterosexual people and further, significantly higher rates of suicidal behaviour when compared with heterosexual young people.

In particular, the linkages between child sexual abuse and victimisation or perpetration in adulthood, and the complex mental health implications of chronic sexual victimisation, have major policy and practice implications that we need to come to grips with so we can find and implement solutions.

Carol La Prairie's investigations of similar statistics in Canada suggest that there are three ways Indigenous women living in violent situations may end up convicted of violence offences: «they may retaliate with violence against abusive family members; they may resort to drug and alcohol abuse to escape abuse; or their victimisation may lead to the abuse and neglect of others».