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A qualitative study of filicide by mentally ill mothers
- Authors:
- STANTON Josephine, SIMPSON Alexander, WOULDES Trecia
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(11), November 2000, pp.1451-1460.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
The objective of this study was to examine descriptions of maternal filicide committed in the context of major mental illness from the frame of reference of a group of perpetrators. Six women were identified, and interviewed. They described intense investment in mothering their child(ren). Descriptions of external stressors were not extreme, but the experience of illness was described as extremely stressful. They described little or no warning or planning. Their descriptions of their children were unremarkable. Motivation was described as altruistic or as an extension of suicide. They described regretting the killings and feeling responsible even though they knew they had been ill at the time. The findings underline the difficulty of identification of risk and prevention of maternally ill filicide in the women who described being very caring towards their children, and little or no warning of filicidal urges. They may be better understood in terms of the illness than the individual stress or psychodynamics.
Trauma, coping, and depression among women with HIV/AIDS in New York City
- Authors:
- SIMONI J.M., NG M.T.
- Journal article citation:
- AIDS Care, 12(5), October 2000, pp.567-580.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Among 230 HIV-positive women in New York city, the researchers examined the association of retrospective self-reports of sexual and physical abuse, current coping strategies and depressive symptomatology. Results revealed a high prevalence of abuse in childhood and adulthood. Childhood abuse positively correlated with the frequency of current adaptive and avoidant coping strategies. Implications for improving the psychological functioning of women living with HIV/AIDS are discussed.
You don't know what it's like
- Author:
- CASTILLO Heather
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(2), October 2000, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Personality disorder has become synonymous with violence and inhumanity. But the experiences of people with the diagnosis tell a very different story.
Childhood abuse as a possible locus for early intervention into problems of violence and psychopathology
- Author:
- SAPPINGTON A.A.
- Journal article citation:
- Aggression and Violent Behavior, 5(2), May 2000, pp.255-266.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This article reviews research on abuse in childhood. Physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, as well as children witnessing parents abuse each other, were all found to be associated with later problems with violence and psychopathology. Recommends that psychopathologists and therapists collaborative in long-term studies which utilise intervention as a tool for experimentally investigating the relationships between childhood abuse and later problems of violence or psychopathology.
Psychological consequences of child maltreatment in homeless adolescents: untangling the unique effects of maltreatment and family environment
- Authors:
- RYAN Kimberly D., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(3), March 2000, pp.333-352.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This American study examines the differential effects of various forms of abuse, as well as their combined effects. It also seeks to separate the factors uniquely associated with abuse from those associated with the more general problems present in an abusive family environment. Without exception, the group with histories of both physical and sexual abuse exhibited the most severe symptomatology and was at greatest risk for revictimisation. Multiple regression analyses suggested that abuse histories were predictive of internalising problems while family characteristics were more predictive of externalising problems. The findings indicate that both abuse type and family characteristics contribute to the development of symptomatology. Future prospective and longitudinal studies are needed to clarify the sequelae of abuse, as well as the possible cause and effect relations between abuse, family characteristics, and psychological outcome.
An ethnographic study of the longitudinal course of substance abuse among people with severe mental illness
- Authors:
- ALVERSON Hoyt, ALVERSON Marianne, DRAKE Robert E
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 36(6), December 2000, pp.557-569.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This two-year ethnography conducted among 16 dually diagnosed clients in the US yielded two longitudinal findings. Four 'positive quality of life' factors were strongly correlated with client's efforts to stop using addictive substances: regular engagement with an enjoyable activity; decent, stable housing; a loving relationship with a person accepting of mental health problems; a positive relationship with a mental health professional. The study also revealed that five predictive 'negative background factors' were present in participants' childhood homes: substance misuse; extreme poverty; 'non-functional' household members; abuse by care-givers; severe mental illness in household. The implications of these findings for treatment are discussed.
Emotion recognition ability in mothers at high and low risk for child physical abuse
- Authors:
- BALGE Kristi A., MILNER Joel S.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(10), October 2000, pp.1289-1298.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
The study sought to determine if high-risk, compared to low-risk, mothers make more emotion recognition errors when they attempt to recognize emotions in children and adults. High-risk, compared to low-risk, mothers showed a tendency to make more errors on the visual and auditory emotion recognition tasks, with a trend toward more errors on the low-intensity, visual stimuli. However, the observed trends were not significant. Only a post-hoc test of error rates across all stimuli indicated that high-risk, compared to low-risk mothers made significantly more emotion recognition errors only trends and a significant post hoc finding of more overall emotion recognition errors in high-risk mothers were observed, additional research is needed to determine if high-risk mothers have emotion recognition deficits that may impact parent -child interactions.
Treatment outcome for a maltreated population: benefits, procedural decisions, and challenges
- Authors:
- GOTHARD Shayna, RYAN Barbara, HEINRICH Tricia
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(8), August 2000, pp.1037-1045.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This article reviews the benefits, challenges, and procedural decisions to consider when implementing and managing a treatment outcome programme for a maltreated population. The development of an outcome programme requires careful measurement selection, early and ongoing staff-involvement, support from higher management, a well-developed data base and client tracking system, a coordinator and support staff, clinical utility, planning for fiscal impact, and flexibility to contend with challenges. The plethora of clinically rich and administratively useful information derived from an outcome programme far outweighs the challenges and costs of establishing and maintaining an outcome programme.
Child maltreatment related injuries: incidence, hospital charges, and correlates of hospitalization
- Author:
- FORJUOH Samuel N.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(8), August 2000, pp.1019-1025.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This American study was undertaken to determine the incidence, hospital charges, and correlates associated with inpatient treatment of child maltreatment related injuries. The findings indicate that injury from child maltreatment is a major cause of hospitalisation of young children 5 years and younger and represents a significant cost to publicly financed health care. While hospital discharge data can be used for population-based surveillance of child maltreatment related trauma, there is need for improvement in the surveillance of these injuries.
The veridicality of punitive childhood experiences reported by adolescents and young adults
- Authors:
- PRESCOTT Alison, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(3), March 2000, pp.411-423.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This American research aims to determine whether retrospective reports of childhood disciplinary experiences and perceptions of that discipline correspond to actual childhood events and whether the accuracy of that report was influenced by the affective state of the respondent. Adolescents completed a retrospective measure of physical child maltreatment, naturalistically in their homes interacting with their parents an average of ten years earlier. Analyses were consistent with the hypothesis that both current mood and actual observations of parent-child interactions during childhood predict self-reported recollections of childhood maltreatment by one's parents. Further the veridicality of such recollections appears to depend upon the objective specificity versus the perceptive nature of the question used to elicit the recollections. The findings suggest that assessment instruments suitable for obtaining information regarding earlier childhood victimisation must utilise behaviourally, specific items. Thus, items that are either global or intimate a normative comparison should be avoided.