If your child has suffered emotional distress as the result of another party's negligence, contact
child psychological injury lawyer Jeffrey Killino at 877-875-2927 for experienced and compassionate assistance with your case.
Child psychological injury lawyer Jeffrey Killino understands the lasting and devastating effects that emotional trauma can have on a child and is experienced in bringing parties responsible for such injuries to justice.
Not exact matches
The day - long event will take a holistic approach to youth sports safety which addresses not just a
child's physical safety, but emotional,
psychological and sexual safety as well, and will show how, by following best practices, youth sports programs can stem the rising tide of
injuries that have become an all - too - common and unfortunate by - product of today's hyper - competitive, overspecialized, and over-commercialized youth sports environment.
Instead, it's all about getting their
children to that higher level as quickly as possible, no matter what the
injury risk, financial cost or
psychological strain.
Meta - analyses of studies evaluating these programs show positive effects on the competence, efficacy and
psychological health of the parents, as well as on the behaviour of the
children.49, 50 A recent implementation study of a strategy for parenting and family support showed that families in the treatment group had far fewer cases of substantiated
child maltreatment, abuse
injuries and out - of - home placements.51
We all want to keep our kids from harm, but
child psychologist David Elkind explains that sheltering them from every problem and minor
injury has lifelong
psychological implications.
A
child exposed to one of the situations listed above may suffer lasting
psychological injuries.
If a
child's
psychological injuries were sustained as a result of someone's intentional conduct, the individual who engaged in the intentional conduct may be found liable for damages in an action for the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
If your
child suffers from persistent
psychological or emotional trauma that is caused by another person's deliberate act or negligence, you may be entitled to recover damages from the party responsible for your
child's
injury under certain circumstances.
Most states follow the law of the Restatement (Second) of Torts with respect to actions brought to recover damages for a
child's
psychological injuries.
As a consequence, the claimant - minor
child has sustained emotional and
psychological trauma and
injury, the nature and extent of which are yet to be determined.
Injuries to
children can require lengthy treatment for both physical and
psychological symptoms.
When it comes to dog bites and other animal attacks, victims — especially young
children — may suffer from
psychological as well as physical
injuries.
Bradley's past work includes successful claims for adult and
child claimants who had suffered
psychological injuries as a result of witnessing a gas explosion and its immediate aftermath.
We can help you recover all of the damages associated with your
child's
injury, including lingering
psychological scarring and trauma.
Unfortunately, the most vulnerable members of our society -
children - are most susceptible to dog bites and dog attacks, and usually suffer grave
injuries ranging from cut wounds to disfigurement,
psychological trauma, or even death.
Dr. Childress has developed a descriptive framework involving three levels of the family process, 1) the Alpha level of the initial
psychological - relationship
injury involving the parent -
child relationship of the «alienating parent» as a
child in relationship with his or her own parent, 2) the Beta level of transmission from the «alienating parent» as a
child to the «alienating parent» as an adult in relationship with his or her own spouse and
child, and 3) the Delta level of the spouse and
child of the «alienating parent» onto whom the Alpha level
psychological - relationship
injury is re-enacted through the Personality Disorder dynamics of the «alienating parent.»
Bancroft [16] has cau - tioned that recovering from the
psychological trauma and
injury related to expo - sure to IPV among
children takes a long time after they separate from their abusive fathers, and that intensive and continuous
psychological treatment and counseling is necessary.
I conduct the following assessments: adoption evaluations, aviation assessments, bariatric evaluations,
child custody evaluations, egg donor evaluations, immigration evaluations, personal
injury evaluations, pre-employment screenings and
psychological evaluations.»
In addition, I am a forensic psychologist, meaning I conduct
psychological evaluations in most of the forensic areas including
child custody, personal
injury, and disability.
The concentration of beneficial nurse effects on the emotional, language, and mental development of
children born to mothers with low
psychological resources in the current trial is consistent with corresponding nurse effects on
child abuse, neglect, and
injuries among
children born to low - resource mothers in earlier trials of this program.10, 17,19 The vulnerable and low - vitality emotion classifications are relevant to
child maltreatment.
Based on prior research suggesting that distinctions between allegations and substantiations are not useful, 31,32 official reports of alleged
child abuse were coded using a slightly modified version33 of the maltreatment classification scheme developed by Barnett et al. 34 Three general indicators of
child abuse were created, each dichotomized as present or not, based on the coding of the following records: (1) physical abuse (any blows or
injury to the head, torso, buttocks, or limbs; and violent handling, choking, burning, shaking, or nondescript
injury); (2) sexual abuse (any sexual exposure, exploitation, molestation, or penetration); and (3)
psychological maltreatment (threats to
psychological safety and security, lack of acceptance and threats to self - esteem, or failure to allow age - appropriate autonomy).
It should be noted in any discussion of
psychological problems however, that refugee and asylum seeking
children and adolescents are more likely to have serious health problems associated with malnutrition, disease, physical
injuries, brain damage and sexual or physical abuse (Westermeyer, 1991).
Even if you do not have
children, do not underestimate the potential degree of
psychological damage that can be done to yourself, let alone physical
injury.
The
psychological injury caused to the
child by a Type II decisional error of saying there was no sexual abuse of the
child when in truth there was, and when the
child actually takes the momentous step of disclosing the sexual abuse to others, is extremely severe and devastating to the
child.
In making the link between domestic and family violence and self -
injury and suicide in
children, we are not only talking about
children's physical safety but also the
psychological and emotional safety of
children exposed to violence.
Emotional abuse is defined by the
Child Protection Act (South Australia) as when a child has suffered or is likely to suffer psychological injury detrimental to the child's well - being, or the child's psychological development is in jeop
Child Protection Act (South Australia) as when a
child has suffered or is likely to suffer psychological injury detrimental to the child's well - being, or the child's psychological development is in jeop
child has suffered or is likely to suffer
psychological injury detrimental to the
child's well - being, or the child's psychological development is in jeop
child's well - being, or the
child's psychological development is in jeop
child's
psychological development is in jeopardy.
The major focus of Dr. Clark's research is low - incidence disabilities, in particular
children and adolescents with autism and traumatic brain
injuries who have serious behavioral and
psychological problems.
Trauma can be both a medical and
psychological event in the eyes of
children and families experiencing serious illnesses,
injuries, or painful procedures.
Included are the choice or change of school, college, camp, or comparable summer activity, special tutoring, music, sports, art, dance, and other cultural lessons,
psychological or psychiatric treatment or counseling, doctors, and surgeons; notice of illness and
injury; access to school and medical records; and all other material decisions affecting the health, education, and welfare of the
children.
If an unusual incident occurs that threatens any
child's physical or emotional health or safety, or if any physical or
psychological abuse of a
child is suspected, the regulations require California
child care providers to inform Community Care Licensing within 24 hours and to file an unusual incident /
injury report within seven days.
Given the failure to find group differences in
psychological distress and family functioning and the relatively low levels of stress and burden even among the severe TBI group, we concluded that
injury stresses diminished after longer periods following
injury and that most families, even those of
children with severe
injuries, adapted favorably.
Our main questions regard (1) the nature and quantity of parent —
child communication after paediatric
injury and (2) the relation between parent —
child communication and
children's
psychological recovery.