Sentences with phrase «risk of sexual violence»

These children were at higher risk of sexual violence compared to their peers, and had poorer mental health than children with school staff physical violence exposures in Class 3.

«Although young women are aware of the risk of sexual violence, they don't always view that risk as relevant to themselves and aren't always eager to sit through a 90 - minute program,» Simpson Rowe said.

Those eligible to seek refuge here are expected to include torture survivors, women and girls who have experienced or are at risk of sexual violence and people with disabilities.

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The union took aim at «a hyper - masculine industrial camp culture, which can result in increased risk of sexual harassment, assault, increased levels of violence against women in sex work and hitchhiking and increased levels of child care and gender inequity.»

During the offseason, Isaacson said, the next step will be training people within each organization — player engagement directors, human resources directors and security directors — who are on the front lines and can identify warning signs or risk factors for cases of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Those risk behaviors included some of the largest threats to health for young people, such as excessive drinking, smokeless tobacco use, unsafe sexual activity, physical violence, and unsafe use of motor vehicles.

He was going to highlight the particular plight of Syrian women and girls, who make up more than half of Syrian refugees, and who have been shown to be more at risk of both sexual and physical violence during the conflict, as they are in all conflicts.

The effects of child sexual abuse include increased risk for development of severe mental, physical and behavioral health disorders; sexually transmitted diseases; self - inflicted injury, substance abuse and violence; and subsequent victimization and criminal offending.

They observed that «in many parts of the world» these stereotypes leave girls at greater risk of dropping out of school or suffering physical and sexual violence, child marriage, early pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

Teen dating violence can provide a point of potential intervention as specific types of TDV have been associated with increased alcohol and tobacco use, depressive symptoms and suicidality, eating disorders, and high - risk sexual behavior, according to the study background.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's national Youth Risk Behavior Survey has provided estimates of teen dating violence (TDV) since 1999 but changes were made to the survey in 2013 to capture more serious forms of physical TDV, screen out students who did not date and assess sexual TDV.

Research has also indicated that they are at a heightened risk of experiencing physical or sexual violence.

«We found that genetic susceptibility to BD can increase the risk for suicide attempt, but only among those who also have experienced traumatic stress such as bullying, sexual abuse, and domestic violence,» said lead author Holly Wilcox, PhD, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Studies show it can increase the risk of addiction, and also trigger violence, other drug use, alcohol abuse, and sexual risk - taking.

«Exposure to violence — not just cyberbullying, but peer violence and sexual violence — increases the risk of suicide,» says Elizabeth Miller, MD, chief of adolescent medicine at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, who was not involved in the study.

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In IDP camps, there are cases where the perpetrator is allowed to remain in the community through a community settlement out of fear that the perpetrator would be given a lengthy service in the formal justice system, putting survivors at risk of reprisals and further sexual violence.

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Training sophomores, juniors and seniors throughout the academic year on definitions, resources for reporting, risk reduction, bystander intervention, situational awareness, and addressing the continuum of sexual violence as a leadership issue.

Women defending environmental human rights may face additional risks, including the threat of sexual violence, loss of credibility, and loss of livelihoods.

Throw some coin at the International Refugee Assistance Project, which provides legal representation to at - risk refugees, like LGBTI individuals, religious minorities, survivors of sexual violence, and people being threatened for having assisted the United States in the Iraq and Afghan wars.

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It was the first piece of legislation that actually compelled employers to perform risk assessments of potential violence in the workplace (all violence, not just sexual violence), institute programs and policies for workplace violence and harassment (all harassment, not just sexual), give training to employees with respect to both violence and harassment, and — most importantly — develop specific procedures to enable both the reporting and investigation of employee complaints of harassment.

Our work with children is focused on providing legal assistance to juveniles condemned to die in prison; challenging the placement of youth in adult jails and prisons, where they face an elevated risk of assault and sexual violence; and challenging the prosecution of very young children as adults.

Review of workplace violence risk assessment, taking into account possible sexual violence in the workplace

As part of their risk assessment process, employers should also consider whether and what steps they've taken to mitigate their financial exposure in the event of a workplace sexual harassment or violence claim against it.

Indeed, partners pose the greatest risk of violence for women — be it for physical, sexual or emotional abuse.

Poverty, living in homes and / or communities in which violence, drugs, and other negative risk factors are present, abuse, violent or delinquent behavior, low self - efficacy, academic failure, truancy / suspension from school, avoidance of reading or other «academic» endeavors, depression, short attention span, withdrawal, lack of appropriate social skills, anger, substance use, aggression, sexual activity / teen pregnancy, and grief

Married women generally enjoy the following (as compared with unmarried peers): * More satisfying relationships with their spouse / partner and children * Greater emotional happiness with less depression * More financial resources / less likely to end up in poverty * Decreased risk of domestic violence, sexual assault, or other violent crimes * Decreased risk of drug and alcohol abuse * Better physical health * Longer life

In an analysis of studies worldwide, the World Health Organization estimated that 29 % of ever - married women aged 15 — 19 had experienced physical or sexual intimate partner violence.19 Studies have also found that adolescents and young women face a higher risk of violence than older adult women.20, 21

Santana MC et al., Masculine gender roles associated with increased sexual risk and intimate partner violence perpetration among young adult men, Journal of Urban Health, 2006, (4): 575 — 585, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430489/.

I believe I have the qualities necessary for this position and have strengthened my qualities as a social worker through my last two years of direct service in community mental health as well as my past experience working with survivors of sexual assault, survivors of domestic violence, and at risk youth.»

Across all prisons, Human Rights Watch found that prisoners with disabilities are viewed as easy targets and as a result are at serious risk of violence and abuse, including bullying and harassment, and verbal, physical, and sexual violence.

The Impact of Sexual Abuse in the Lives of Young Women Involved or at Risk of Involvement With the Juvenile Justice System Goodkind, Ng, & Sarri Violence Against Women, 12, 2006 View Abstract Analyzes young females at risk of being involved in the juvenile justice system to determine the relationship between previous sexual abuse and placement in the sSexual Abuse in the Lives of Young Women Involved or at Risk of Involvement With the Juvenile Justice System Goodkind, Ng, & Sarri Violence Against Women, 12, 2006 View Abstract Analyzes young females at risk of being involved in the juvenile justice system to determine the relationship between previous sexual abuse and placement in the sysRisk of Involvement With the Juvenile Justice System Goodkind, Ng, & Sarri Violence Against Women, 12, 2006 View Abstract Analyzes young females at risk of being involved in the juvenile justice system to determine the relationship between previous sexual abuse and placement in the sysrisk of being involved in the juvenile justice system to determine the relationship between previous sexual abuse and placement in the ssexual abuse and placement in the system.

In fact, childhood stressors such as abuse, witnessing domestic violence, and other forms of household dysfunction are highly interrelated23, 24 and have a graded relationship to numerous health and social problems.23 - 28 We examined the relationship of 8 adverse childhood experiences (childhood abuse [emotional, physical, and sexual], witnessing domestic violence, parental separation or divorce, and living with substance - abusing, mentally ill, or criminal household members) to the lifetime risk of suicide attempts.

Individual risk factors for perpetration include alcohol and drug use, delinquency, empathic deficits, general aggressiveness and acceptance of violence, early sexual initiation, coercive sexual fantasies, preference for impersonal sex and sexual - risk taking, exposure to sexually explicit media, hostility towards women, adherence to traditional gender role norms, hyper - masculinity, suicidal behavior, and prior sexual victimization or perpetration.

These findings are supported by studies on abused children and adolescents at high risk for suicidal behaviors.16, 42 The immediacy of the stress and the pain of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse or witnessing domestic violence are experiences not easily escaped by children and adolescents, which may make suicide appear to be the only solution.

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

Poverty, a lack of employment opportunities, a lack of institutional support from police and judicial system, the general tolerance of sexual violence within the community, and weak community sanctions against sexual violence perpetrators — all can come together to amplify individual and relationship risk factors.

Past studies show the risk of violence is approximately 36 percent greater for pregnant women than non-pregnant women, 5 and the onset of pregnancy has been linked to a significant uptick in both the frequency and severity of violence.6 Sexual and psychological aggression also climb during this time.7 The suggestion that pregnancy correlates with high rates of violence dovetails with original data collected by CFRP.

A brief intervention for drug use, sexual risk behaviours and violence prevention with vulnerable women in South Africa: a randomised trial of the Women's Health CoOp

She is currently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to develop an intervention to reduce dating violence and sexual risk behaviors among adolescent girls with prior dating violence exposure.

Victims have been shown to experience more post-traumatic stress and dissociation symptoms than non-abused children, 8 as well as more depression and conduct problems.9 They engage more often in at - risk sexual behaviours.10 Victims are also more prone to abusing substances, 11 and to suicide attempts.12 These mental health problems are likely to continue into adulthood.13 CSA victims are also more at risk than non-CSA youth to experience violence in their early romantic relationships; 14 women exposed to CSA have a two to three-fold risk of being sexually revictimized in adulthood compared with women without a history of CSA exposure.15

Innovative national services were also set up to support women who have experienced violence, such as 1800RESPECT, Australia's first national professional telephone and online counselling service for women experiencing, or at risk of domestic and family violence and sexual assault.

A range of childhood psychosocial risk factors have been associated with depression, including characteristics of the child (eg, behavioral and socioemotional problems, poor school performance), characteristics of the parents (eg, parent psychopathology, rejecting or intrusive behavior), and family circumstances (eg, the loss of a parent, physical or sexual violence, family discord).12 - 15 However, it has not been shown decisively whether these risks distinguish juvenile from adult - onset MDD.

Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Against Women: Taking Action and Generating Evidence World Health Organization (2010) Provides a framework for analyzing risk and protective factors of intimate partner and sexual violence as well as for developing programs and policies for preveSexual Violence Against Women: Taking Action and Generating Evidence World Health Organization (2010) Provides a framework for analyzing risk and protective factors of intimate partner and sexual violence as well as for developing programs and policies for preViolence Against Women: Taking Action and Generating Evidence World Health Organization (2010) Provides a framework for analyzing risk and protective factors of intimate partner and sexual violence as well as for developing programs and policies for prevesexual violence as well as for developing programs and policies for previolence as well as for developing programs and policies for prevention.

Counselling service for anyone in Australia who has experienced or is at risk of sexual assault, family or domestic violence.

Researchers looked at various Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE's include (a) psychological abuse, (b) physical abuse, (c) sexual abuse, (d) substance abuse by a household family member, (e) mental illness of a household family member, (f) spousal or partner violence, and (g) criminal behaviour resulting in the incarceration of a household member) and how they are related to adulthood health risk behaviours and disease outcome.