Maltreatment, child

Alvarez, K.M., Donohue, B., Kenny, M.C., Cavanagh, N. and Romero, V. (2005) The process and consequences of reporting child maltreatment a brief overview for professionals in the mental health field. Aggression and Violent Behavior 10, 311-331. 

Chance, T. and Scannapieco, M. (2002) Ecological correlates of child maltreatment similiarities and differences between child fatality and non-fatality cases. Child and Adolescent Social WorkJournal 19, 139-161. 

Child Welfare Information Gateway (2004) Child Maltreatment 2002 Summary of Key Findings. 

Murphy, J.M., Jellinek, M., Quinn, D., Smith, G., Poitrast, EG. and Goshko, M. (1991) Substance abuse and serious child maltreatment prevalence, risk and outcome in a court sample. Child Abuse and Neglect 15, 197-211. 

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1.4 million cases of child maltreatment are reported annually, with 160,000 children suffering serious injuries and 2000 children dying each year as a consequence of maltreatment. Prevalence rates have been evaluated for different types of abuse in clinical, community, and national samples. Prevalence rates of sexual abuse range from 7%-62% in women (McCauley et al., 1997). A reanalysis of 166 studies on the prevalence of sexual abuse in boys revealed rates from... 

Cicchetti, D. (1998). Early experience, emotion, and brain illustrations from the developmental psychopathology of child maltreatment. In Hann, D., Huffman, L.C., Lederhendler, LI. Meinecke,... 

This review generated responses from other authorities in the field. Some commented that the conclusions may be premature, given the age of the subjects, and drew attention to several studies that have shown subtle but consistent deficits in cognitive and attentional processes in 6-and 7-year-old children (302). These effects may become more prominent as development continues and may persist into adulthood. Others criticized the attempt to isolate cocaine exposure from all other associated risk factors from a public health perspective, prenatal cocaine exposure clusters with other risk factors, such as poor caregiving, child maltreatment, domestic violence, and prenatal exposure to other substances (303). Furthermore, the selection criteria narrowed the total articles reviewed to under half of the 74 articles found. Others suggested that the study had been misinterpreted (304). 

Labbe J (2005) Ambroise Tardeau the man and his work on child maltreatment a century before Kempe. Child Abuse Negl 29 311-324... 

NICE (2009) Clinical Guideline CG89 When to suspect child maltreatment. NICE, England. 

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). 

Smith, B.D. and Testa, M.F. (2002) The risk of subsequent maltreatment allegations in families with substance-exposed infants. Child Abuse and Neglect 26, 97-114. 

Kaufman, J. (1991) Depressive disorders in maltreated children. / Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 30 257-265. 

De Beilis, M.D. and Putnam, F.W. (1994) The psychobiology of childhood maltreatment. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin North Am 3 663-678. 

De Belbs MD, Keshavan MS, Harenski KA (2001) Anterior cingulate N-acetylaspartate/creatine ratios during clonidine treatment in a maltreated child with posttraumatic stress disorder. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 11 311-316... 

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