| The role of adolescent physical abuse in adult intimate partner violence. |
| Summary: Longitudinal study looking at abuse history as a risk factor in predicting intimate partner violence. Explores whether a sample of young adults (23 to 31 years) who were physically abused as adolescents, were more likely to be physically and verbally aggressive against their partners compared to non-abused young adults. Results showed that as adults, participants with abuse histories had significantly higher rates of intimate partner physical violence and verbal aggression compared to participants without a history of abuse. Adults with histories of physical abuse were twice as likely to be physically violent and almost six times more likely to be verbally aggressive to their partners. |
| Publication details: Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume 27 Issue 3, 2012 pp 3773-3789 |
| Authors: Sunday, Suzanne, et al. |
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Developing and implementing and appreciative ‘quality of care’ approach to child neglect practice.
| Developing and implementing and appreciative ‘quality of care’ approach to child neglect practice. |
| Summary: Reports on an evaluation of the Graded Care Profile (GCP) tool for assessment of child neglect, in the Blackburn with Darwen local authority. Training was carried out using a ‘quality of care’ toolkit and the evaluation (using the Appreciative Inquiry approach) ran alongside the delivery of the toolkit training sessions, to explore existing practice and changes which occurred during practice. The research found that appreciative practice and the GCP both shifted focus from a review of neglect to a consideration of care, and that families found the tool helpful in understanding professional concerns and monitoring their own progress. |
| Publication details: Child Abuse Review Volume 21 Issue 2, 2012 pp 81-98 |
| Authors: Carter, Bernie |
Clinician knowledge and utilization of empirically-supported treatments for maltreated children.
| Clinician knowledge and utilization of empirically-supported treatments for maltreated children. |
| Summary: Examines the findings of a US survey into the recognition of empirically-supported treatments (ESTs) for abused children and their use by those working with them in clinical settings. Barriers to the spread of ESTs were identified as lack of time and financial resources, which limit training in evidence-based practice. Clinicians were not generally able to identify interventions supported by research and the development of cost-effective training and support (including web-based options) and the modification of training courses may improve awareness of ESTs. |
| Publication details: Child Maltreatment Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 11-21 |
| Authors: Allen, Brian, and Gharagozloo, Laadan, and Johnson, Jennifer C. |
Child maltreatment histories among female inmates reporting inmate on inmate sexual victimization in prison: the mediating role of emotion dysregulation.
| Child maltreatment histories among female inmates reporting inmate on inmate sexual victimization in prison: the mediating role of emotion dysregulation. |
| Summary: Reports on a study of female prisoners in the American Midwest, which looked at the link between all types of abuse in childhood and sexual victimisation in prison. Although few associations between child abuse and forced sexual experiences in prison were found, emotional dysregulation was found to mediate links between childhood abuse and coerced sexual experiences in prison. |
| Publication details: Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume 27 Issue 3, 2012 pp 492-512 |
| Authors: Walsh, Kate, et al. |
Are our frontline clinicians equipped with the ability and confidence to address child abuse and neglect?
| Are our frontline clinicians equipped with the ability and confidence to address child abuse and neglect? |
| Summary: Reports on a survey of medical practitioners in Sydney, New South Wales, which looked at the role of confidence in reporting child abuse and found significant differences in confidence and practice in clinical workers in primary care and hospital emergency departments. Suggests that this may be explained by differences in training and that targeted and relevant training should be provided to all frontline clinical workers, especially general practitioners (GPs). Includes questionnaire. |
| Publication details: Child Abuse Review Volume 21 Issue 2, 2012 pp 114-130 |
| Authors: Raman, Shanti, and Holdgate, Anna, and Torrens, Rebecca |
Youth victimization: school climate or deviant lifestyles?
| Youth victimization: school climate or deviant lifestyles? |
| Summary: Uses school climate theory (which examines physical, social and organisational elements of the school) to analyse the links between victims and offenders in the 11th grade in high schools in Delaware. The research found the social cohesion of schools reduced serious violent victimisation, but that school climate did not affect the relationship between offending and victimisation. |
| Publication details: Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume 27 Issue 3, 2012 pp 431-452 |
| Authors: Zaykowski, Heather, and Gunter, Whitney |
Bullying victimisation and risk of self harm in early adolescence: longitudinal cohort study.
Bullying victimisation and risk of self harm in early adolescence: longitudinal cohort study. Summary: Examines the relationship between being bullied and self harm. Uses a representative sample of 1116 twin pairs from the UK born in 1994-95 to assess relative risks of self harming behaviour in the six months before their 12th birthday. Finds that children who had been bullied were more likely to self-harm. Also identifies other factors which made bullied children more likely to self harm, including: family history of attempted/completed suicide, mental health problems, and a history of physical abuse by an adult.
Publication details: British Medical Journal, Issue 344, 2012 pp [1-9]
Authors: Fisher, Helen L., et al.
A call for field-relevant research about child forensic interviewing for child protection.
| A call for field-relevant research about child forensic interviewing for child protection. |
| Summary: Reviews sensitivity versus specificity imbalances in forensic investigations of child sexual abuse. Proposes the development of further testing of additional approaches for children who do not respond to the current protocol (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development – NICHD). Argues that adaptations of this protocol or additional approaches should be developed and tested for nondisclosing, partially disclosing, or recanting children, very young children, children with developmental disabilities, and children whose sexual abuse allegations are evaluated in the context of custody or visitation disputes. |
| Publication details: Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Volume 21 Issue 1, 2012 pp 109-129 |
| Authors: Olafson, Erna |
Mental health professionals in children’s advocacy centers: is there role conflict?
| Mental health professionals in children’s advocacy centers: is there role conflict? |
| Summary: Argues against claims that children’s advcoacy centres have created role conflict for mental health professionals because of their work with criminal justice and child protection professionals in children’s advocacy centres as part of a coordinated response to child abuse. States that children’s advocacy centre practice is misunderstood and the risk of role conflict is overestimated, although it is impossible to rule out the possibility. Concludes that, given the benefits of the involvement of mental health professionals in children’s advocacy centres, undue concern about role conflict would not be in children’s best interests. |
| Publication details: Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Volume 21 Issue 1, 2012 pp 91-108 |
| Authors: Cross, Theodore P., et al. |
| Returning home from care: what’s best for children. |
| Summary: Examines issues around children returning home from care. Research shows that around half of children who come into care because of abuse or neglect suffer further abuse if they return home, with up to half of those returning to care. This report looks at how to address the problems and outlines innovative new approaches to support family reunification and to protect children. Highlights NSPCC recommendations to central and local government to improve outcomes for children returning home from care and includes information on NSPCC approaches to practice in four key areas of reunification: assessment, decision making, planning and monitoring. |
| Publication details: [London]: NSPCC, [2012] pp 23 |
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| Corporate authors: NSPCC |