Does Prevention Decrease Discordance in Mother and Child Reports of Youth Violence Exposure & PTSD?

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen DeVoe ◽  
Claudia Miranda-Julian
Keyword(s):  
Violence Exposure ◽  
Youth Violence ◽  
Child Reports ◽  
Mother And Child

Are Immigrant Youth Less Violent? Specifying the Reasons and Mechanisms

2012 ◽  
Vol 641 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
John MacDonald ◽  
Jessica Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Violence Exposure ◽  
Youth Violence ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Relative Disadvantage

In this article, the authors present an overview of the relationship between immigrant households and crime and violence, drawing on sociological and public health literature. They present a critique of popular culture perspectives on immigrant families and youth violence, showing that crime and violence outcomes are if anything better for youth in immigrant families than one would expect given the social disadvantages that many immigrant households find themselves living in. They examine the extent to which exposure to violence among immigrant youth is comparably lower than among nonimmigrants living in similar social contexts and the extent to which social control and social learning frameworks can account for the apparent lower prevalence of violence exposure among immigrant youth. Their analyses show a persistent lower rate of violence exposure for immigrant youth compared to similarly situated nonimmigrant youth—and that these differences are not meaningfully understood by observed social control or social learning mechanisms. The authors focus then on the apparent paradox of why youth living in immigrant households in relative disadvantage have lower violence exposure compared to nonimmigrants living in similar social contexts. The answers, they argue, can be viewed from an examination of the effects that living in poverty and underclass neighborhoods for generations has on nonimmigrants in American cities.

scholarly journals Multiple jeopardy: Risk and protective factors among addicted mothers' offspring

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUNIYA S. LUTHAR ◽  
GRETTA CUSHING ◽  
KATHLEEN R. MERIKANGAS ◽  
BRUCE J. ROUNSAVILLE
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Risk And Protective Factors ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Maternal Psychopathology ◽  
Psychiatric Disturbance ◽  
Child Reports ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
American Ethnicity

Objectives of this study were to ascertain risk and protective factors in the adjustment of 78 school-age and teenage offspring of opioid- and cocaine-abusing mothers. Using a multimethod, multiinformant approach, child outcomes were operationalized via lifetime psychiatric diagnoses and everyday social competence (each based on both mother and child reports), and dimensional assessments of symptoms (mother report). Risk/protective factors examined included the child sociodemographic attributes of gender, age, and ethnicity, aspects of maternal psychopathology, and both mother's and children's cognitive functioning. Results revealed that greater child maladjustment was linked with increasing age, Caucasian (as opposed to African American) ethnicity, severity of maternal psychiatric disturbance, higher maternal cognitive abilities (among African Americans) and lower child cognitive abilities (among Caucasians). Limitations of the study are discussed, as are implications of findings for future research.

scholarly journals Mother and Child Reports of Hurricane Related Stressors: Data from a Sample of Families Exposed to Hurricane Katrina

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty S. Lai ◽  
Brooke Beaulieu ◽  
Constance E. Ogokeh ◽  
Shannon Self-Brown ◽  
Mary Lou Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Child Reports ◽  
Mother And Child

scholarly journals Discrepancy Between Mother and Child Reports of Parental Knowledge and the Relation to Risk Behavior Engagement

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth K. Reynolds ◽  
Laura MacPherson ◽  
Alexis K. Matusiewicz ◽  
Whitney M. Schreiber ◽  
C. W. Lejuez
Keyword(s):  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
Child Reports ◽  
Mother And Child

Children's Adjustment in a Climate of Political Violence: Comparing Mother and Child Reports

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gali Tangir ◽  
Rachel Dekel ◽  
Tamar Lavi ◽  
Abigail H. Gewirtz ◽  
Osnat Zamir
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Child Reports ◽  
Children's Adjustment ◽  
Children’S Adjustment ◽  
Mother And Child

Differences and Similarities in Mother and Child Reports About IPV Risks: Concordance Is Likely but Cannot Be Assumed

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (13) ◽  
pp. 1563-1584
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Simmons ◽  
Sarah W. Craun ◽  
Melissa Farrar ◽  
Rebekah Ray
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Parental Report ◽  
Composite Measures ◽  
Child Reports ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Similar Risk

Reports from 297 mother–child dyads were compared to explore concurrence in relation to violence committed by the father on specific high-risk items and in terms of general risk to the mother and to the child using composite measures. Results indicated the majority of the mother–child dyads report similar risk using eight individual items (60.9%-77.1%) and on the composite measures (61.9% and 54.2%). However, concordance was lower than anticipated. Findings highlight the importance of not simply relying on parental report but instead obtaining the child’s report about their own exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) in clinical, research, and forensic applications.

Polyvictimization and Youth Violence Exposure Across Contexts

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather A. Turner ◽  
Anne Shattuck ◽  
David Finkelhor ◽  
Sherry Hamby
Keyword(s):  
Violence Exposure ◽  
Youth Violence
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