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| wide-ranging effects of maltreatment on child's physical & emotional development |
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| refers to physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and neglect |
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| external conditions/surroundings necessary for healthy dev. for infants: protective/nurturing adults & socialization. for older children: supportive family, contact w/ peers, and opportunity to explore/master env. |
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| acts of aggression including punching, beating, kicking, etc. |
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| refusal or delay in seeking health care, expulsion from home, abandonment, inadequate supervision |
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| allowing chronic truancy, failure to enroll child in school, failure to attend to child's special ed. needs |
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| inattention to child's needs for affection, failure to provide psychological care, permission of drug/alcohol use, spousal abuse in the presence of the child |
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| fondling child's genitals, intercourse, incest, rape, sodomy, exhibitionism, and commercial exploitation (prostitution & pornography) |
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| repeated acts or omission that have caused or could cause serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders |
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| prostitution, pornography, child labor |
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3.5 million cases reported
1 million substantiated (1.2% of all children)
neglect most prevalent, then physical, sexual, emotional |
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age (neglect: infant/toddler) - risk decreases w/ age except sexual abuse
gender: equal risk except sexual abuse (80% are girls)
poverty
race: black highest risk
single parent OR large family |
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| cycle-of-violence hypothesis |
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| being abused as a child and becoming abusive toward others as an adult |
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| after sexual abuse, a child's sexual knowledge/behavior are developmentally inappropriate |
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| personal or indirect exposure to actual/threatened death, serious injury, sexual violence. persistent intrusive symptoms, avoidance of associated stimuli. marked change in thoughts and moods. marked change in arousal and reactivity |
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| reactive attachment disorder |
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| Internalizing reaction to neglect: inhibited; withdrawn; does not seek or respond to comfort from attachment figure; emotionally unresponsive; little positive affect |
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| disinhibited social engagement disorder |
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| Externalizing reaction to neglect: indiscriminant and uninhibited social engagement; overly familiar with strangers; willing to go with stranger; not check back with caregiver in unfamiliar situations |
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| anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety, dissociation, etc. following trauma (at least 2 days, under 1 month) |
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| information-processing disturbances |
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| cognitive misperceptions and distortions in the way events are perceived and interpreted |
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