Child abuse physical

Chaffin, M., Kelleher, K. and Hollenberg, J. (1996) Onset of physical abuse and neglect psychiatric substance abuse and social risk factors from social community data. Child Abuse and Neglect 20, 191-203. 

Numerous studies found that childhood sexual, physical, and emotional abuse also predisposes victims of such abuse to the development of depression in adulthood (e.g., McCauley et ah, 1997). The risk for depression increases with early onset and severity of the abuse as well as with the experience of multiple types of abuse. In addition, child abuse is related to an array of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder and PTSD (e.g., Kendler et ah, 2000). Other disorders related to childhood abuse include substance abuse, eating disorders, dissociation, and so-... 

Fatty infiltration of the liver and/or other organs Dilated or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Allegation of child abuse (not trauma, physical harm)... 

One final situation, unfortunately, needs to be addressed what to do when a drug-abusing child threatens physical violence to parents when his or her wants are denied If parents have previously experienced threats or acts of violence and given in to them to get out of danger, or if they fear that such threats or acts are likely to happen. 

The term child abuse contains many different forms of cruelty against children - neglect, physical violence, sexual abuse -whether by their own parents, staff in residential institutions, paedophile priests or total strangers. Over the last decade, public perceptions of the problem have become increasingly focused on sexual abuse and sensationally atypical cases outside the family. 

Concerns that disproportionate numbers of children with serious emotional disturbance were being removed from their communities led to the development of systems of care in the 1980s. In 1992, Congress passed the Comprehensive Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program which supported the development of these systems of care. A system of care is in or near the home and community. In fiilly developed systems of care, local public and private organizations work in teams with families and children to both plan and implement individualized services for each child s physical, emotional, social, educational, and family needs. Teams include family advocates and representatives fi om mental health, health, education, child welfare, juvenile justice, vocational rehabilitation, recreation, substance abuse, and other services. Systems of care have supported the use of mental health clinicians in schools, school- and community-based wraparound planning and services, and student support services (Woodruff et al., 1999). 

Psychosocial morbidity association. Cannabis dependence is a prevalent comorbid substance use disorder among patients early in the course of a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder. Among 29 eligible patients, 18 participated in the study. First-episode patients with comorbid cannabis dependence (n = 8) reported significantly greater childhood physical and sexual abuse compared with those without comorbid cannabis dependence (n = 10). The result indicated the preliminary evidence of an association between childhood maltreatment and cannabis dependence among this especially vulnerable population. Child-... 

Physical abuse and neglect are the most common forms of maltreatment among parents who use drugs (Chaffin, Kelleher and Hollenberg 1996 Locke and Newcomb 2003 Child Welfare Information Gateway 2004). 

Corcoran, J. (2000) Family interventions with child physical abuse and neglect a critical review. ... 

Rachel s account is partly the story of a young woman s efforts to discover her own authentic voice. One of my first questions in our conversation was Where is home She replied, I don t think I have a home. Rachel s response became less puzzling when she later described growing up in a family dominated by a mother s mental illness and a father s physical abuse, a circumstance tailor-made to stifle a young girl s selfhood. Such an outcome may be heightened for a child who takes on the role of family peacekeeper. Here is how Rachel depicted her family life and relationships ... 

Inhalant abuse is found in both urban and mral areas of the United States and Canada. Research indicates social and economic rather than racial and cultural factors in general impact the rate of inhalant abuse. Poverty, physical or mental abuse as a child, poor grades in school, and dropping out of school are all associated with increased inhalant abuse. At particularly high risk are Native American youths who live on reservations where poverty and school dropout rates are high. 

In children, the causes of this despair and loss of hope are almost always apparent in the first consultation session, providing it involves the family and includes an evaluation of the child s school life. In children, depression almost always revolves around problems at school and in the home, everything from bullying at school and abuse at home to academic school failure, painful peer relationships, and family conflicts over how to raise the child. The treatment of depression in children requires, first, finding out how and why the child became depressed and, second, helping the child, the family, the school, and all the other participants in the child s life restore hope in the child. Children have many needs, including a stable family, rational discipline, unconditional love, stimulating educational environments, physical security, and emotional safety. The object of therapy is to identify the unmet needs and to help adults meet them. 

Not all children who are severely and repeatedly abused develop multiple personality disorder, but if the sexual or physical abuse is extreme and repeated, disassociated clusters of thoughts and feelings may begin to take on lives of their own, especially when the child has no time or space in which to emotionally recover between abuses. Each cluster tends to have a common emotional theme such as anger, sadness, or fear. Eventually, as the walls of disassociation thicken, these clusters develop into full-blown personalities, each with its own memory and characteristics. 

Through preoccupation with the abusing or addicted child s problems, parents neglect and sacrifice their own well-being (and those of other children in the family) to their physical and emotional cost. 

Intentional overdose in a child or adolescent should raise the possibility of physical or sexual abuse. Teenage girls may have overdosed because of unwanted pregnancy. 

F. There are signs of physical or sexual abuse or neglect multiple or unusual bmises a broken bone or bums a very dirty, unkempt child or a child with a flat affect or indifferent or inappropriate behavior. 

For example, in the film Good Will Hunting, Will (played by Matt Damon) is a young man who is afraid to let anyone become close to him. This fear stems back to terrible physical abuse as a child by his foster father that made him, on an unconscious level, equate intimacy with pain. So terrified is he of closeness that he even pushes away the woman who loves him and his therapist who only wants to help him. Rather than grow, he retreats into a very bleak situation. By the end, however, he makes his way through his FLBW and learns to allow people to be close to him. 

In Siing Biade, Billy Bob Thornton plays Karl Childers, who is mentally retarded. At one point, he relays a painful part of his past to a boy for whom he feels protective. Karl tells of how he had a terribly physically abusive father. When Karl s mother gave birth to a very sickly child, his father forced Karl to bury the child, even though the child was still alive. Karl was horrified and distressed by the act. Karl, afraid of his father, did as he was told—but the experience emotionally devastated him. This painful part of Karl s past causes us to identify with him, despite his retardation. 

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