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Screening spouse abusers for child abuse potential

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1986
This study investigated the ability of the Child Abuse Potential (CAP) Inventory to screen for child abuse in a group of spouse abusers. Eighty-seven untreated male spouse abusers and 95 nonabusers were administered the CAP Inventory. All of the subjects were active duty, United States military personnel. The completed, valid protocols revealed that 36.
J S, Milner, R G, Gold
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Abuse of Spouses

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1978
To the Editor.— The BRIEF REPORT "Wife Abuse: The Diagnosis and Its Implications" (240:240,1978) by Petro and associates promulgated the unusual thesis that there is justification for corporal punishment ("most abused wives were unfaithful and deserved to be abused").
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Spouse Abuse

1991
Abstract Spouse abuse (or interspousal violence) is defined as the use of physical force in intimate relationships among adults. Battering is defined as a syndrome of control and increasing entrapment attendant upon spouse abuse and characterized by a history of injury, general medical complaints, isolation, stress-related ...
Evan Stark, Anne H Flitcraft
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Spouse Abuse:

Journal of Health & Social Policy, 1990
Forty male respondents, 20 batterers and 20 non-batterers comparably matched for education, sex, age, employment, and occupation in a non-probabilistic sample, were administered the Conflict Tactics Scale and the Causal Dimension Scale in order to measure exposure to violence in both family and non-family environments and to determine how respondents ...
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Characteristics of Spouse Abusers

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1986
With increased attention being paid to the problem of male to female spouse abuse, the importance of understanding abuser characteristics is growing. Although violence abatement programs are developing, it has been observed clinically that abusers frequently fail to volunteer for such treatment when it is available.
L. KEVIN HAMBERGER, JAMES E. HASTINGS
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Observation of Spouse Abuse

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1987
The results of a study of the children of battered women indicate that intervention with these children, half of whom were themselves abused, should become a professional priority. The serious effects are influenced by the gender and age of the child.
LIANE V. DAVIS, BONNIE E. CARLSON
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Clinical strategies in recognizing spouse abuse

Psychiatric Quarterly, 1990
Physicians have developed an increased sensitivity to the recognition and management of spouse abuse. Examined are clinical data and research which will enhance the physician's assessment of spouse abuse. Specific criteria useful in diagnosis and strategies helpful in the assessment process are discussed. Addressed are psychological factors involved in
L J, Veltkamp, T W, Miller
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Abuse of Spouses-Reply

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1978
ABSTRACT It was not the intention of the authors to promulgate the idea that there is a correlation between justification for abuse and infidelity. It is unfortunate that this unclear language was not detected by us. In his letter to the British Journal of Psychiatry, Allan Alani in what I hope was a facetious manner implied that his faithful husbands ...
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Early antecedents of spouse abuse

Aggressive Behavior, 1997
Males taken into police custody for reported spouse abuse (n = 19) and a matched control group (n = 19) were asked to describe the drinking habits of their parents and the extent of intra-family violence witnessed by them as children. The retrospective data were compared to the participant's own present alcohol use and aggressiveness (CTS).
Bettina von der Pahlen   +3 more
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