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Community violence exposure and associated behavior problems among children and adolescents in residential treatment
- Authors:
- GUTERMAN Neil B., CAMERON Mark, HAHM Hyeouk C.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aggression Maltreatment and Trauma, 6(2), 2003, pp.111-135.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Community violence exposure is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in the presenting behavioral profiles of children and adolescents. This cross-sectional study reports findings on the lifetime rates of community violence exposure in a sample of 101 children and adolescents living in residential treatment in the USA, and the associations between such exposure and their presenting behavior problems. A total of 41 percent of the study participants reported they had been severely physically victimised, and 80 percent stated they had witnessed severe physical victimisation. After controlling for background variables, hierarchical regression analyses indicated that sexual victimisation and, to a lesser degree, personal physical victimisation selectively predicted greater behaviour problems, whereas witnessed physical violence predicted fewer behaviour problems overall. These findings highlight a need to conduct multidimensional assessments of violence exposure among children and adolescents in residential and other mental health settings. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)