Characteristics of Childhood Physical Abuse Among Survivors in Therapy

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyndsey N. Karns ◽  
Coral Gaffney ◽  
Sarah Goldstein ◽  
Siddika Mulchan ◽  
Jacqueline Kerner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Childhood Physical Abuse

Childhood Physical Abuse in Relation to Adult Social Functioning and Social Anxiety

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica R. Litteken ◽  
Laura Pawlow ◽  
Andy Pomerantz ◽  
Dan Segrist
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Childhood Physical Abuse

Factors Influencing School Counselors’ Suspecting and Reporting of Childhood Physical Abuse: Investigating Child, Parent, School, and Abuse Characteristics

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1096-2409-19.1. ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen S. Tillman ◽  
Michael D. Prazak ◽  
Lauren Burrier ◽  
Sadie Miller ◽  
Max Benezra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Abuse ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
School Counselor ◽  
The United States ◽  
Childhood Physical Abuse ◽  
Family Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Physical Evidence ◽  
Subject Variables ◽  
Abuse Characteristics ◽  
Involved Parents

This study sought to explore possible child abuse reporting disparities among school counselors. The participants in this study were elementary school counselors (N = 398) from across the United States. Each participant read a series of vignettes and completed a survey regarding their inclinations about suspecting and reporting childhood physical abuse. The surveys manipulated the following variables: student race, family socioeconomic status (between-subject variables), relationship with the school counselor, and severity of abuse (within-subject variables). School counselors were found to be more likely to suspect defensive parents of abuse than cooperative or non-involved parents. School counselors were also less likely to suspect abuse when a child reported being hit without physical evidence than if a child had a bruised or broken arm. Last, school counselors were more likely to report a child with a bruised arm over a child who reported being hit without physical evidence. Although certain concerns emerged as a result of this study and all signs of abuse should be reported to the appropriate authorities, school counselors were more likely, across the board, to report abuse than to suspect abuse.

Pathways Linking Childhood Physical Abuse to Alcohol Misuse in Adolescent Boys and Girls: A Prospective Cohort Study From Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-371
Author(s):  
Claudia Leite de Moraes ◽  
Marcela De Freitas Ferreira ◽  
Michael Eduardo Reichenheim ◽  
Aline Gaudard E Silva ◽  
Gloria Valeria da Véiga
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Prospective Cohort Study ◽  
Prospective Cohort ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Alcohol Misuse ◽  
Childhood Physical Abuse ◽  
Adolescent Boys

The Correlation of Childhood Physical Abuse History and Later Abuse in a Group of Turkish Population

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (17) ◽  
pp. 3455-3475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Caykoylu ◽  
Aslihan O. İbiloglu ◽  
Yasemen Taner ◽  
Nihan Potas ◽  
Ender Taner
Keyword(s):  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Turkish Population ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Healthy Population ◽  
Childhood Physical Abuse ◽  
Abuse History ◽  
Psychological States

Domestic violence is passed from one generation to the next, and it affects not only the victim but also the psychological states of the witnesses, and especially the psychosocial development of children. Studies have reported that those who have been the victim of or witnessing violence during their childhood will use violence to a greater extent as adults in their own families. This research examines the relationships between a history of childhood physical abuse, likelihood of psychiatric diagnoses, and potential for being a perpetrator of childhood physical abuse in adulthood among women who received psychiatric treatment and in the healthy population from Turkey. Estimates of the prevalence of childhood physical abuse vary depending on definition and setting. The frequency of witnessing and undergoing physical abuse within the family during childhood is much higher in the psychiatrically disordered group than the healthy controls. Childhood physical abuse history is one of the major risk factors for being an abuser in adulthood. The best indicator of physically abusing one’s own children was found to be as physical abuse during the childhood period rather than psychiatric diagnosis. There is a large body of research indicating that adults who have been abused as children are more likely to abuse their own children than adults without this history. This is an important study from the point of view that consequences of violence can span generations. Further studies with different risk factor and populations will help to identify different dimensions of the problem.

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