Sentences with phrase «including abusive parenting»

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Dr. Bavolek's professional background includes working with emotionally disturbed children and adolescents in schools and residential settings and with abused children and abusive parents in treatment programs.

Baumrind echoes this same concern about abusive parents «sneaking,» so to speak, into the studies Gershoff includes, but goes further.

The allegations can include that the soon to be rejected parent has poor parenting skills, never really cared for the child and in fact was at times so angry he or she was very abusive.

This may include the ability of the custodial parent to encourage a relationship between the child and non-custodial parent, or the ability of the custodial parent to keep the child away from an abusive non-custodial parent.

A judge has several factors to consider, including whether either party has been abusive, whether one parent is better able to attend to the physical and emotional needs of the child, the proximity of the parties to one another and any other relevant factors the court deems important.

A measure of whether either parent used harsh or abusive punishment, which included shaking, hitting with an object, hitting with a fist or kicking, grabbing by the neck / choking, hitting as hard as possible, burning / scalding, throwing / knocking down, and slapping on the head.

If a parent is seeking sole custody because the other parent is abusive, the parent seeking custody might present evidence that includes photos, hospital records, documentation of criminal charges and restraining orders, or relevant witness testimony.

Few prevention programs have been rigorously evaluated, and only a few have proven effective.60, 61 Health - care based prevention programs, including parent education programs to reduce rates of abusive head trauma, and improving physician ambulatory care practices to help families decrease risk factors for child maltreatment have shown good initial results, but require further evaluation.62, 63 Specific intensive home visitation programs such as nurse home visiting programs for first - time mothers have proven to be both clinically and cost effective in preventing maltreatment.64, 65 However, a program of nurse home visitation has been found ineffective as a treatment model for abusive and neglectful families, highlighting the importance of primary prevention, as well as the need to rigorously evaluate potential treatments for abusive families.66 Child welfare services are historically structured as short - term interventions that monitor families for recidivism, provide parenting education and assist with referrals to community - based services.

If an absent or abusive parent abandons all parental responsibilities, that parent could lose all custodial rights, including legal and physical custody permanently.

Some definitions of physical abuse do not include perpetrator intent; others reflect motive rather than injury type.3 Additionally, definitions of physical abuse are culturally determined, and what is considered abusive in one society may not be in another.4, 5 In many societies, physical violence against children as a method of punishment is endorsed by parents, sanctioned by societal institutions (such as schools) and allowed by law.

There has been a lot of research looking at the factors that contribute to a preference for S&M, including early childhood / parenting experiences (e.g., absent or abusive parents); however, no simple link has been demonstrated so far.

To make this decision, the courts consider many factors including, but not limited to, the child's preference if he or she is mature enough to make a decision; the ability and willingness of each parent to provide for the child's physical, intellectual and emotional well - being; the willingness of the custodial parent to provide continuing contact between the child and the noncustodial parent; and abusive or criminal conduct by the other parent.

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Advocates against child abuse, such as Carol Bruch, have reacted strongly to PAS by saying that there is no such «syndrome,» and instead it is often seen as the rejected parent's (usually the father's) own abusive behavior which caused the child to appropriately feel estranged from that parent, including: child sexual abuse, physical abuse, or simply extremely poor parenting.

They include literacy groups, mental health services, drug and alcohol prevention groups, the Department of Human Services, and others who understand that inadequate or abusive parenting often are at the core of the difficulties their clients face.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This paper examined Combined Parent - Child Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy (CPC - CBT), a treatment model that addresses the complex needs of the parent who engages in physically abusive behavior and the traumatized Parent - Child Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy (CPC - CBT), a treatment model that addresses the complex needs of the parent who engages in physically abusive behavior and the traumatized parent who engages in physically abusive behavior and the traumatized child.

This includes self absorbed and abusive parents, spouses, lovers, siblings, friends, employers and other significant relationships.

Goals of CPC - CBT include helping children heal from their abusive experiences, empowering parents to effectively parent their children in a non-coercive manner, strengthening parent - child relationships, and enhancing the safety of all family members.

Notwithstanding older research datasets of joint custody parents that included those individuals who on balance were far more able and likely to cooperate, compared with sole custody datasets that included the most egregiously abusive situations, joint custody relitigation rates have been found to be no better than sole custody relitigation rates.

The parent whose strategy for escaping abuse does not include pressing criminal charges or seeking a protective order [FN128] may risk losing custody to the abusive parent if the court disregards the undocumented evidence as opportunistic * 800 and applies an unfriendly parent penalty.

Behaviors included under an umbrella term of adolescent - to - parent violence also vary, as some researchers include only physically abusive acts (McCloskey and Lichter 2003; Nock and Kazdin 2002), others consider both physical and psychological aggression (Calvete et al. 2015b), and still others include physical violence, verbal aggression, and property damage (Margolin and Baucom 2014).

We have included reviews of the treatment as well as prevention of «child abuse» on the grounds that treatment of abusive parenting can prevent the development of mental illness concomitant on abuse and could have beneficial effects on children other than the victim of abuse.