Sentences with phrase «among maltreated children»

[jounal] Shields, A. / 1998 / Reactive aggression among maltreated children: The contributions of attention and emotion dysregulation / Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 27: 381 ~ 395

Interventions focusing on enhancing child prosocial skills and caregiver well - being may be helpful in lowering the risk of clinically significant externalizing behavior problems over the course of childhood among maltreated children.

Among maltreated children, the proportion reported as neglected increased from 49 percent in 1990 to 75 percent in 2014, while those reported as sexually abused declined from 17 to 8 percent, and the share reported as physically abused declined from 27 to 17 percent.

Reactive aggression among maltreated children: The contributions of attention and emotion dysregulation

The prevalence of mental health problems is particularly high among maltreated children place in out - of - home care.

The best evidence for reduction in mental - health conditions among maltreated children is for cognitive - behavioural therapy (CBT) for sexually abused children with post-traumatic stress symptoms.11 Several interventions show promise: some child - focused types of therapy for neglected children including resilient peer treatment, 12 an imaginative play program, 13 multisystemic therapy14 and a day treatment intervention.15 There is also some evidence of the benefits of post-shelter counseling intervention for women exposed to intimate - partner violence, 16,17 child - parent psychotherapy, 18,19 and trauma - focused CBT for children with intimate partner violence - related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms.20

Bridgett A. Besinger and others, 8220; Caregiver Substance Abuse among Maltreated Children Placed in Out - of - Home Care, 8221; Child Welfare, 78 (1999): 221, 8211; 39.

Enhancing attachment organization among maltreated children: Results of a randomized clinical trial

Our findings suggest that blunted leptin release in relation to increasing levels of adiposity can contribute to the obesity risk among maltreated children.

They found that among maltreated children, those who were genetically prone to make low levels of MAO - A were far more likely than their counterparts to become violent adults.

Not exact matches

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.

Substance abuse Substance abuse by a child's parent or guardian is commonly considered to be responsible for a substantial proportion of child maltreatment reported to the child welfare services.1 Studies examining the prevalence of substance abuse among caregivers who have maltreated their children have found rates ranging from 19 percent2 to 79 percent or higher.3 One widely quoted estimate of the prevalence of substance abuse among care - givers involved in child welfare is 40 to 80 percent.4 An epidemiological study published in the American Journal of Public Health in 1994 found 40 percent of parents who had physically abused their child and 56 percent who had neglected their child met lifetime criteria for an alcohol or drug disorder.5

Risk for negative outcomes may be modified by both genetic and environmental factors, with the quality and availability of social supports among the most important environmental factors in promoting resiliency in maltreated children, even in the presence of a genotype expected to confer vulnerability for psychiatric disorder.

Attachment disorganisation became a focus of developmental research when rarely occurring incoherent and contradictory infant behaviours, not fitting the Ainsworth categories, appeared to be predominant among maltreated or otherwise deprived groups of infants and young children [6, 40].

Attachment The capacity of maltreated children to attach to caregivers has been a key concern and has been widely studied among child welfare experts.

Psychological symptoms among young maltreated children: Do services make a difference?

Patterns of relatedness in maltreated and nonmaltreated children: Connections among multiple representational models

The rates of alcohol use and abuse are elevated among maltreated adolescents involved with the child welfare system.

Of the studies evaluating the effectiveness of attachment - theory - based intervention programs, only two have dealt exclusively with maltreated children and parents who had been reported to child protection services.4, 5 These two studies, noteworthy for their randomized trial method, found a substantial reduction in disorganized attachment behaviours and an increase in secure attachment behaviours among infants and young children resulting from attachment - theory - based interventions.

Patterns of relatedness in maltreated and non maltreated children: Connections among multiple representational models