It's a question that haunts those who had childhoods marked by years of neglect and deprivation, or psychological, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of one or both parents. Despite this terrible beginning, many people make it out successfully and go on to build satisfying lives. Now ...
Some parents are either unable or unwilling to discontinue their abusive behavior. For some, this unwillingness may be connected with compromised impulse control associated withsubstance abuseor mental illness. For others, it is because they refuse to acknowledge that there is anything wrong with their...
(Finkelhor, 1979; Russell, 1983; Timnick, 1985). The majority of sexually abusive experiences involve “serious” to “very serious” forms of abuse that have the potential for psychological trauma and short- and long-term sequelae. Finkelhor’s (1979) survey of college students revealed that...
Forty-five families (22 court-referred abusive families and 23 control families) participated in a laboratory play task as part of a larger study on family processes and child abuse (Reid, 1986). We led each family into a play room, asked the parents to play with the child for a 10-...
Unwillingness of the child to communicate with the parent at all Parents also said they were unsure of what had caused the estrangement significantly more often than the adult children. Why does an adult child estrange from a parent? Adult children more often...
THE CHILDREN SELECTED WERE FORMER PATIENTS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH WITH INJURIES THOUGHT TO RESULT FROM ABUSE. DEMOGRAPHIC, SOCIAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ABUSIVE AND NONABUSIVE FAMILIES WERE COMPARED FOR DIFFE... KE Bauman - 《American Journal of Public Health & the Nation...
Group Therapy for Abusive Parents and Their ChildrenGroup therapy is recognized as a treatment modality for the child abuser and the abused. This article presents a review of the literature on this subject, focusing particularly on those articles that describe this modality in detail. Guiding ...
Psychiatric emergencies with children and adolescents may be the result of a direct crisis with the youth, such as physical trauma, or the consequence of a broader crisis, such as injury or death of a close family member, or may reflect the impact of being the victim of a complex act of...
Even with a history of severe abuse such as vaginal or anal penetration, the rate of abnormal medical findings is only 5.5%. Biological parents are less likely to engage in severe abuse than parental substitutes, extended family members, or strangers. 展开 关键词: Sexual abuse Medical findings ...
with inner city, or poverty stricken areas permeated with abusivefamilies and neglectful schools. However, in recent limes, the “teen violence”epidemic has penetrated society at every economic level. An increase in thenumber of working mothers, as well as single-parent families, combined with a...