Sentences with phrase «severe parental abuse»

Years ago, it was the senior Keelys, Tom's parents, who had sheltered Gemma and her sister from severe parental abuse.

Not exact matches

Mild insomnia was uniquely predicted by childhood abuse and divorce, and moderate - severe insomnia was uniquely predicated by childhood abuse and parental death.

Generally speaking, termination of parental rights if fairly rare, and only imposed in the most extreme cases, for example, where a parent has subjected a child to severe abuse, including abandonment, torture, chronic abuse, or sexual abuse, or has committed similar acts against the other parent.

Dr Price said: «The work of the family Bar bears a heavy responsibility — the consequences of failure in advocating a client's case are severe, and include the risk of children being returned to perpetrators of child abuse, the removal of a child from home and the loss of parental rights, domestic violence and homelessness.

But when multiple traumatic events contribute to a health problem — such as physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, parental neglect, severe illness, accident, injury, or health - related trauma that result in chronic impairment to health and well - being — the time to heal may be longer.

The first include extreme poverty, severe family conflict, abuse and neglect, or parental abuse of alcohol and drugs.

Severe parental alienation has even been considered a form of psychological abuse.

For young children experiencing toxic stress from recurrent child abuse or neglect, severe maternal depression, parental substance abuse, or family violence, interventions that provide intensive services matched to the problems they are designed to address can prevent the disruption of brain architecture and promote better developmental outcomes.

Parental abuse, onset of problem behavior in early childhood, financial hardship and lack of supervision are all associated with more severe conduct disorder.10, 18 Additionally, a poorer prognosis is associated with an increase in the number and severity of specific DSM - IV criteria.10 Risk also increases with comorbid ADHD and substance abuse.10 These dimensions should guide treatment Subclinical conduct disorder symptoms or those of recent onset may be amenable to physician - parent counseling.

My expertise in the attachment system comes from both my background in early childhood mental health, which is the period of active formative processes in the attachment system (although we use the patterns of the attachment system throughout our lives), and from also applying this attachment - related information directly with children in the foster care system who were the victims of parental abuse and neglect that created a variety of severe distortions with their attachment system.

Mr. Joshi's practice focuses on complex litigation including cases involving severe parental alienation, international child abduction, and false allegations of child sexual abuse stemming from parental alienation.

He specializes in Clinical and Forensic psychology including court - ordered evaluations, outpatient sex offender specific treatment and evaluation, parental fitness evaluations, severe and pervasive mental illness, personality disorders, correctional mental health, competency evaluations, psychological testing, substance abuse evaluation and treatment, and expert witness and consultation.

I can not speak for any court, but I hope that parental alienation will soon be considered as a severe form of emotional abuse.