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Sexual Abuse, Sex Trafficking, and Rape
Published in S Paige Hertweck, Maggie L Dwiggins, Clinical Protocols in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 2022
Jacqueline Sugarman, S. Paige Hertweck
Children's Advocacy Centers, Rape Crisis Agencies, and hospital based pediatric child abuse pediatricians/child protection teams are resources that the healthcare provider can contact to help ensure that a child and family will receive services and counseling. These agencies can provide counseling for both children and caretakers, as well as offer guidance to families regarding the investigative response and legal processes that comprise a multidisciplinary approach to a child sexual abuse outcry.
Mental Health: Clinical Issues
Published in Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Sarah Walpole, Aula Abbara, Sylvia Garry, Rita Issa, Alimuddin Zumla, Ibrahim Abubakar, Handbook of Refugee Health, 2021
Peter Ventevogel, Peter Hughes, Claire Whitney, Benedicte Duchesne
Measures to protect these children include child protection case management and providing support and training to parents of children with developmental disorders to help them support their child’s development.30 The World Health Organization (WHO) and international partners recently published an evidence-based caregiver skills training (CST) programme for families of children with autism and other developmental disorders. It consists of nine group sessions and three home visits and can be delivered by non-specialist providers to groups of caregivers. The package is currently being tested in Syria, Jordan and Ethiopia.31
Do you really want to become a doctor?
Published in Viyaasan Mahalingasivam, Marc A Gladman, Manoj Ramachandran, Secrets of Success: Getting into Medical School, 2020
Viyaasan Mahalingasivam, Marc A Gladman, Manoj Ramachandran
There are also many community paediatricians. These doctors work in specialist community centres and look after children with developmental problems and disabilities (e.g. Down’s syndrome or deafness). Their responsibilities are to optimize the wellbeing of these children in their everyday lives by working with the multidisciplinary team (e.g. physiotherapists) and schools. Some are also involved in child protection services in abuse cases.
Emotional Abuse Questionnaire: a validity and reliability study
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2022
Melike Yavaş Celik, Erhan Elmaoğlu
Emotional abuse, which is one of the types of abuse, is defined as behaviors that are frequently encountered in normal life, applied to children by parents, relatives and adults in the environment, and that negatively affect the personality and psychosocial development of children(Şahiner et al., 2001). Emotional abuse is behavior that will negatively affect the psychosocial development of the child. Not taking care of the child, ignoring the child, using words that will hurt the child, saying words that will hurt the child and insulting the child are behaviors seen in emotional abuse (Krug et al., 2002). In the report prepared as a result of the research conducted by UNICEF in our country in 2010, it was found that girls between the ages of 7 and 17 are most exposed to emotional abuse by their friends, mothers, fathers and teachers. In addition, in this report, it was stated that children were treated with insulting words, shouting, mocking, threatening, comparing them with other people, and insulting them(UNICEF, 2010). In the study in which 89 children who were exposed to abuse were examined by Ege University Child Protection Unit, 49.4% of children were exposed to sexual abuse, 24.7% to physical abuse, 11.2% to emotional abuse and 14.6% to neglect was determined (Koç et al., 2012). It is seen in this study that the rate of emotional abuse is not a rate to be taken lightly.
Identification of Child and Youth Maltreatment as Experienced by Prehospital Emergency Care Providers
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2021
Mari Salminen-Tuomaala, Juha Tiainen, Eija Paavilainen
From the perspective of preventing and treating children’s and adolescents’ mental health problems it is of great importance that even in ambiguous cases, emergency care providers find the courage to intervene and report their suspicions. In Finland, social and healthcare professionals and many other authorities have an obligation, which overrides confidentiality, to report to social service authorities any suspicion of child maltreatment. (Child Welfare Act 417, 2007). In some research, prehospital emergency care providers have been found to make few reports of suspected child abuse and neglect to child protection services. Barriers to reporting involve fear of being mistaken; fear of parents’ or other caregivers’ reactions; and the fast-paced setting in EMS (Tiyyagura et al., 2017). At emergency departments, negative consequences of reporting such as testifying in court, have been found to be one of the barriers to reporting child maltreatment (Tiyyagura et al., 2015). The possibility to report suspicions anonymously through an online system might be an option for professionals concerned about caregiver reactions and other negative consequences. Professionals can also use assessment tools meant for identification of child maltreatment in acute settings, as part of assessment of the situation (Bailhache et al., 2013).
Defund the Police: Moving Towards an Anti-Carceral Social Work
Published in Journal of Progressive Human Services, 2021
Leah A. Jacobs, Mimi E. Kim, Darren L. Whitfield, Rachel E. Gartner, Meg Panichelli, Shanna K. Kattari, Margaret Mary Downey, Shanté Stuart McQueen, Sarah E. Mountz
In general, young people who enter foster care are far more likely to experience interrupted education and curtailed educational access, poorer mental health outcomes, an increased likelihood of juvenile justice involvement, and adult incarceration and poverty (Courtney & Dworsky, 2006; Courtney et al., 2007; Pecora et al., 2003). These poor outcomes are exacerbated for BIPOC youth, queer and transgender youth, and youth who are multiply marginalized (Mountz, 2020; Roberts, 2009; Shpiegel & Simmel, 2016). In this way, the child welfare system also serves as a carceral pipeline for the nation’s most marginalized youth. Some scholars and advocates refer to child welfare as a system of “family regulation,” and CPS’s role as one of “policing” (Movement for Family Power, 2019; Roberts, 2020; Williams, 2020), thereby challenging the name and narrative of “child protection” and “child welfare.”