By Lisa Albers Prock
This name incorporates a variety of Open entry chapters.
Research into the consequences of kid abuse has skilled an explosion over the past few a long time, leading to a much more wide-ranging figuring out of this grave societal challenge. This compendium quantity collects the most contemporary learn and organizes it inside 3 different types: societal results, results on overall healthiness (including psychological well-being) behaviors, and epigenetic results. particular issues comprise the institutions among early life abuse and the next factors:
- Juvenile sexual offending
- Juvenile delinquency
- Adult aggression
- Cognitive development
- Adult smoking
- Sleep patterns
- Suicidal behaviors
- Psychopathology
- Epigenomic mechanisms
Edited by means of a Harvard developmental behavioral pediatrician, this significant compendium bargains state of the art wisdom to pros and graduate scholars within the assisting fields. The articles amassed the following supply researchers with foundations for extra investigations, whereas they provide energetic pros higher energy within the struggle opposed to baby abuse.
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34. MacMillan HL, Tanaka M, Duku E, Vaillancourt T, Boyle MH: Child physical and sexual abuse in a community sample of young adults: Results from the Ontario Child Health Survey. Child Abuse Negl 2013, 37:14–21. 35. Hussey JM, Chang JJ, Kotch JB: Child maltreatment in the United States: Prevalence, risk factors, and adolescent health consequences. Pediatrics 2006, 118:933–942. This article is continued on page 95. 1 CHILDHOOD TRAUMATIZATION Traumatization of children (the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a “child” as “a human being below the age of 18 years”) occurs in many ways.
The question arises, in particular, to what extent the cost scenarios – determined under the assumption of child endangerment [51]–can be projected on the number of traumatized individuals identified in epidemiologic studies [4,10]. While various age limits of the investigated populations can be approximated, it cannot be stated with certainty whether the cost scenarios described by Meier-Gräwe and Wagenknecht [51] are based on the same kind of traumatization as the determination of prevalence by Häuser et al.
The most common types of traumatic events were violent attacks, accidents and witnessing trauma. Child neglect – mostly subdivided into physical and emotional neglect – also belongs to the most common types of traumatization [4,9,10]. 5% were affected by “severe/ extreme” abuse or neglect, respectively. 7% were severely affected. 6% of women). 9% of the participants had witnessed violence between the parents more than rarely. A characteristic feature of childhood traumatization is that children are often affected by several types of traumatization.