Sentences with phrase «physical abuse prevention»

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A child psychiatrist, Dr. Sparrow's care in the 1990s for children hospitalized for severe psychiatric disturbances, often associated with physical and sexual abuse, and for developmental delays aggravated by social and economic deprivation, prompted his interest in community - based prevention and health promotion.

Parent perspectives reflect the trend, too, with more than two - thirds of parents polled saying traditional health topics should definitely be covered at their child's grade level, including physical activity, drug and alcohol abuse, healthy eating and sex education and pregnancy prevention.

As such, HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL will provide students a comprehensive school health education that address a variety of topics such as alcohol and other drug use and abuse, healthy eating / nutrition, mental and emotional health, personal health and wellness, physical activity, safety and injury prevention, sexual health, tobacco use, and violence prevention.

Some of the topics they discuss are hygiene, sexual health, drug abuse prevention, nutrition, and physical exercise.

Among the prevention subgroup (first - time mothers recruited prenatally), minor physical aggression was reported in 70 percent of control families and 51 percent of program families.60 In Healthy Families Alaska, fewer incidents of mild physical abuse were reported among families in the treatment group.61

In the only physical child abuse prevention intervention with documented long term efficacy, the nurse home visitation programme (NHVP) reduced child abuse over a 15 year period using an intervention that consisted, on average, of only 32 visits.1

Perinatal depression may be comorbid with marital discord, divorce, family violence (verbal and / or physical), substance use and abuse, child abuse and neglect, failure to implement the injury - prevention components from anticipatory guidance (eg, car safety seats and electrical plug covers), 10 failure to implement preventive health practices for the child (eg, Back to Sleep), 10, — , 13 and difficulty managing chronic health conditions such as asthma or disabilities in the young child.11, 14 Families with a depressed parent (ie, any parental depression) overutilize health care and emergency facilities.14 Studies of families of a person with major depression that began before 30 years of age demonstrate that the parent, siblings, and children are 3 to 5 times more likely to have major depression themselves.

Influenced further by epigenomes, these changes are linked with impairment in the child's ability to respond to future biological and environmental stress, and increase the risk for physical and mental health disease later in life.49 - 52 This emerging research underscores the need to develop and test prevention and early, aggressive intervention strategies for children who have been victims of serious physical abuse.

Public health efforts aimed at prevention of early childhood sexual and physical abuse, in particular, may have a significant impact on reducing suicidality over the life course and improving mental health outcomes.

Saving Lives, Saving Dollars: Mitigating the Impact of Child Maltreatment (PDF - 318 KB) Department of Extension Home Economics, New Mexico State University (2006) Focuses on the physical, psychoemotional, and behavioral impact of child maltreatment; estimated direct and indirect financial costs to society; the long - term socioeconomic impact of abuse and neglect; and strategies for prevention and intervention.

Safe Dates is a school - based prevention program for middle and high school students designed to stop or prevent the initiation of dating violence victimization and perpetration, including the psychological, physical, and sexual abuse that may occur between youths involved in a dating relationship.

His primary research interests include the development and prevention of child antisocial behavior and related problem behaviors, such as substance use and abuse, academic failure, and high risking sexual behavior; Coercion Theory; the development of preventive interventions for incarcerated parents, their children, and the caregivers of their children; early childhood education and intervention; youth mentoring; preventive interventions for physical health problems; and the development and prevention of adjustment problems during adulthood, including substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and suicidality.

In specific, Geeraerts et al. (2004) found a small effect (d =.29) of early prevention interventions for families with young children at risk for physical child abuse and neglect.