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Child abuse and pubertal timing: what is the role of child sex and identity of the perpetrator?

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry
Background This study investigated the association between child abuse [child neglect (CN), emotional (CEA) and physical abuse (CPA)] and early puberty with special regard to sex-specific effects concerning child and parental perpetrator.
V. Steger   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Final Report, 2016

open access: yes, 2016
Final report of the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities describing their activities and findings on the state of child protective services in the United States, including sections on confronting child abuse, addressing the needs of
Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities
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Performing child neglect in social work practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Informed by Foucauldian and feminist theoretical positions, the study explores how child neglect is 'performed' by social work professionals and service users.
CASEY, BETH,ANNE
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Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
wiley   +1 more source

Australian laws and policies on child neglect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This chapter describes the features of different Australian State and Territory laws and policies about child neglect. It makes observations about three major domains of law and policy: laws about child neglect to enable protection of children who are ...
Bromfield, Leah, Mathews, Benjamin P.
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Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Childhood abuse and neglect and adult body attitude

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology
Background: The body is the medium through which humans experience the world, and the body is key to most suffering, healing, and clinical mental diagnoses.
Laura Råman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of Perception of Child Maltreatment Scale

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2013
This article presents reliability and validity analyses of the Perception of Child Maltreatment Scale (PCMS). The scale comprised 34 items that measure abusive behaviors related to emotional/psychological abuse (10 items), sexual abuse (6 items), child ...
Sunday B. Fakunmoju, Funmi O. Bammeke
doaj   +1 more source

A descriptive survey of Swedish child health nurses’ awareness of abuse and neglect. I. Characteristics of the nurses

open access: yes, 2001
Objective: The objectives were to assess: (1) child health nurses’ identification of abuse/neglect of children of preschool age in their districts; (2) overall prevalence of abuse/neglect according to the nurses; (3) determinants of nurse identification;
Lagerberg, Dagmar,, Dagmar Lagerberg
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