Sentences with phrase «of maltreated children»

A scoping review of evidence - based interventions available to parents of maltreated children ages 0 - 5 involved with child welfare services.

Some researchers have argued that associations between abuse and adjustment problems can be explained by reporting biases because many studies of the effects of physical maltreatment use samples for which maltreatment is identified by referral to social service agencies.6 Of the community - wide population of maltreated children, those who are referred may represent a biased, more problematic subgroup.

N - Acetylaspartate concentration in the anterior cingulate of maltreated children and adolescents with PTSD

Psychological characteristics of maltreated children: Putative risk factors and consequences

Fostering Resilient Development: Protective Factors Underlying Externalizing Trajectories of Maltreated Children.

Developmental traumatology: The psychobiological development of maltreated children and its implications for research, treatment, and policy

Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology in a Sample of Maltreated Children.

Early interventions to promote the health and well - being of children have been shown to help mitigate the negative consequences of child maltreatment and have long - term positive effects on the health of maltreated children.5 Services are required that provide support to families as soon as they need it, and provide early permanency decisions.6 Interventions that exhibit these characteristics are most likely to improve children's mental health and well - being and reduce health and societal costs over the long term through increased likelihood that children will have higher educational achievements, successful lives and be less likely to be dependent on the state.

This paper examines the influence of maltreated children's maternal and self - representations on subsequent relationships with foster mothers and behavioral adjustment in foster care.

Research on the continuity and influence of maltreated children's attachment representations, however, has not included youngsters removed from abusive or neglectful home environments.

Narrative representations of caregivers and emotional dysregulation as predictors of maltreated children's rejection by peers

Evidence suggests that early intervention can mitigate the negative consequences of child maltreatment, exerting long - term positive effects on the health of maltreated children entering foster care.

Such an examination is a priority because the resulting studies will enable services to be developed that are specific to the needs of the maltreated children and their caregivers.

The resulting experience of fright without solution is characteristic of maltreated children.

Keeping the White Family Together: Racial Disparities in the Out - of - Home Placements of Maltreated Children

This has implications for the effective treatment of maltreated children.

This approach to therapy of maltreated children is being developed by Dr. Bruce Perry, a leading expert in early childhood trauma.

, Evidence - based approaches for the treatment of maltreated children (pp. 187 - 212).

Early elementary school adjustment of maltreated children in foster care: The roles of inhibitory control and caregiver involvement.

Multi-informant assessment of maltreated children: Convergent and discriminant validity of the TSCC and TSCYC.

Up to 65 % of maltreated children develop PTSD; as many as 90 % of infants and children acquire anxious and disorganized attachment patterns.

In addition, explain to caregivers of maltreated children the negative development outcomes that may result from maltreatment.

According to Main, a large «majority of maltreated children have been found to be disorganized.»

This suggest that the pseudo-sensitive behaviour of maltreating mothers and the pseudo-cooperative behaviour of maltreated children are not false fronts offered to the prying observer, but rather reflect an armed peace protecting the interactants from themselves.

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

The article also discusses implications for assessment of maltreated children and prevention.

Some studies suggest that upwards of three - quarters of maltreated children have disordered attachments, but that the proportion may diminish with age.19 The limited empirical work on attachment in foster children suggests that they are more likely than nonfoster children to have insecure and disorganized attachments.

Although the research on resilience in foster children specifically is sorely lacking, studies of maltreated children suggest that maltreated children who exhibit resilience have high cognitive competence, self - esteem, and ego control (including flexibility, planfulness, persistence, and reflection).30 Thus, foster children, who have an increased likelihood of experiencing multiple risk factors such as poverty, maltreatment, and separation from family of origin, may have more positive outcomes if they are fortunate enough to also experience protective factors.

Within the maltreated group, the children with l / l or l / s genotype had only slight elevations in their depression scores compared with CCs, but the children with s / s, the most vulnerable genotype, had depression scores that were twice as high as the depression scores of the CC children with the same genotype (maltreatment plus s / s genotype, 27.2 ± 13.0; CC plus s / s genotype, 13.1 ± 6.4) and almost twice as high as the depression scores of the maltreated children with the other genotypes.

Although 91 % of the CCs reported seeing their primary supports on a daily basis, only 32 % of the maltreated children saw their primary supports this frequently.

We believe the life course trajectory of maltreated children can be improved through ongoing research efforts that span from neurobiology to social policy, identifying mechanisms responsible for the etiology of depression and other stress - related psychiatric disorders, and systematically testing interventions to improve the system of care for these children.

For example, children growing up with low childhood SES were more likely to be maltreated (RR, 2.69; 95 % CI, 1.83 - 3.94) and to be socially isolated (1.62; 1.31 - 2.02), but 58.5 % of maltreated children and 70.1 % of socially isolated children were not exposed to low SES.

The relative availability of maltreated children's social supports also affected their depression scores.

The depression scores of the maltreated children with the s / s genotype that had relatively regular contact with their primary supports were 67 % higher than those of the maltreated children with less vulnerable genotypes who had comparable contact with their supports.

As noted previously, only 32 % of the maltreated children saw their primary support on a daily basis, 18 % reported seeing their primary support on a monthly basis, and 20 % reported seeing their primary support semiannually or less often.

The depression scores of the maltreated children with the s / s genotype and low supports were two times higher than the depression scores of CC children with the same genotype and social support profile (high - risk maltreatment, 30.0 ± 12.3; high - risk CCs, 15.0 ± 6.4).

Nonetheless, the results have profound treatment and social policy implications, because failures within the child protective services system too often result in recurrent episodes of abuse, frequent changes in children's out - of - home placements, and an absence of positive social supports in the lives of maltreated children.

The cognitive profiles of maltreated children in care and their educational needs: Supporting good outcomes.

Her research interests include adoptive breastfeeding, long - term breastfeeding, peer - to - peer milk sharing and the parenting and care of maltreated children.

Conducted by Ron Prinz of the University of South Carolina, this first large - scale American trial of Triple P directly addressed, and affirmed, the success of the program in reducing substantiated child maltreatment, out - of - home placements of maltreated children, and maltreatment injuries.

Pathways Triple P (2 days training + 1 day accreditation — following completion of Level 4 training) Training to deliver this intervention is recommended for professionals who in the course of their duties regularly consult with parents at risk of maltreating their children, and have the capacity to deliver an extended group program.

Pathways Triple P: Intervention for those parents and carers at risk of maltreating their child.

Pathways Triple P Parents at risk of maltreating their children.

These families have been assessed at high or very high risk of maltreating their children in the future.

Not exact matches

This study examined young boys who were maltreated in their youth (Avshalom Caspl et al., «Role of Genotype in the Cycle of Violence in Maltreated Children,» Science, Augustmaltreated in their youth (Avshalom Caspl et al., «Role of Genotype in the Cycle of Violence in Maltreated Children,» Science, AugustMaltreated Children,» Science, August 2, 2002).

Therefore, if a child is suspected of being maltreated by their guardian, the child will generally not be removed from such an environment unless such has been brought to the attention of the proper authorities.

We know it to be bred in families where children and spouses are abused and maltreated, where problems are met with force or threat of force.

Spanking: Parenthood's Dirty Little (and Common) Secret This week a study was released saying when children are disciplined using harsh physical punishment like spanking, they are at higher risk of depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and other mental health problems - even if they aren't otherwise abused or maltreated.

Boys who have been physically maltreated and neglected as children, as well as those who have been victims of physical or sexual assault, have been forced to have sexual contact against their will or have been victims of incest are vastly more likely to become fathers as teenagers than other teenage males (for review, see Kiselika, 2008, pp42 - 44)

Ofsted's new inspection framework makes clear that children's services should pay attention to all parents and carers when children have been maltreated or are at risk of maltreatment or neglect.