Sentences with phrase «consistent physical abuse»

Not exact matches

A parent with mental health issues or substance abuse problems, for example, may not be able to care for a child's physical or emotional needs on a consistent basis.

Clearly communicated rules about physical violence and verbal abuse and clear and consistent enforcement.

This report, which presents 12 - month impact results from a demonstration designed to strengthen marriages among low - income married couples with children, shows that the program produced a consistent pattern of small, positive effects on multiple aspects of couples» relationships, including measures of relationship quality, psychological and physical abuse, and adult individual psychological distress.

Effects were more consistent on physical abuse, however, with mothers in the treatment group reporting fewer instances of very serious physical abuse at one year and fewer instances of serious abuse at two years.54 In Alaska, the HFA program was associated with less psychological aggression, but it had no effects for neglect or severe abusive behaviors.55 Similarly, in the San Diego evaluation of HFA, home - visited mothers reported less use of psychological aggression at twenty - four and thirty - six months.56 Early Start also reported small effects in terms of lowering rates of severe physical abuse.57

Remarkably consistent findings that at least 50 % of contested custody cases involve physical violence between the partners [FN63] suggest that every guardian ad litem and evaluator needs expertise in partner abuse — even if some of that violence is attributable to conflict rather than abuse.

However, even if we were to treat these data as reflecting physical abuse, as the Straus quotation suggests — they are still consistent with the conclusion that fathers are more prone to be physically abusive than mothers.

These findings are largely consistent with the data from the overall cross-national WMHS, which found that physical and sexual abuse significantly increased the likelihood of suicidal ideation and attempts, while neglect was a risk factor for suicidal behaviour in multivariate additive analyses.20

Similar to findings from SASH, childhood sexual abuse emerged as a particularly robust risk factor for suicide attempts in younger participants in the WMHS cross-national analysis, with a 10.9 times higher OR of suicide attempts in children, a 6.1 times higher likelihood in adolescents and a 2.9-fold risk in young adults who were exposed.20 This is in keeping with the Enns hypothesis that sexual abuse results in suicidal behaviour at a younger age.21 Consistent with other studies, childhood physical and sexual abuse, in particular, emerged as risk factors for the emergence and persistence of suicidal behaviour, especially in adolescence.

The proposed project will involve two main sequential activities: a) to develop an EBP system comprised of a set of feasible, theoretically coherent and technically consistent practice elements that are aimed at reducing future incidents of physical abuse, and a simple set of decision rules that match elements with key client or context factors and b) to conduct a feasibility and pilot trial of the modular model.

The direct path from child trauma to IPV perpetration which had the greatest co-efficient in this study is consistent with previous studies that reported that men who experienced physical abuse during childhood or were exposed to parental violence are at greatest risk of perpetration [20,47,48].