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Polytraumatization and trauma symptoms in adolescent boys and girls: interpersonal and noninterpersonal events and moderating effects of adverse family circumstances
- Authors:
- NILSSON Doris Kristina, GUSTAFSSON Per E., SVEDIN Carl Göran
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27(13), September 2012, pp.2645-2664.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Previous research has highlighted that polyvictimisation or polytraumatisation among adolescents are important predictors of reported trauma-related symptoms. The aim of this study was to investigate the cumulative effect of interpersonal and noninterpersonal traumatic life events (IPEs and nIPEs, respectively) on the mental health of adolescents and to determine if the adverse impacts of this trauma were moderated by adverse family circumstances (AFC). A total of 462 adolescents from 13 different schools and 27 classes completed the questionnaire, the Linköping Youth Life Experience Scale (LYLES), together with Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSCC). The findings showed that the lifetime accumulation of interpersonal, noninterpersonal, and AFC was independently related to trauma-related symptoms in both boys and girls. The number of AFCs moderated the mental health impact of both IPEs and nIPEs in boys, but not in girls. The article concludes that cumulative exposure to both interpersonal and noninterpersonal traumatic events is important for the mental health of adolescents, and, at least for boys, family circumstances seem to be relevant for the impact of trauma. The implications for practice are discussed.
Maternal and paternal filicide: case studies from the Australian Homicide Project
- Authors:
- ERIKSSON Li, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 25(1), 2016, pp.17-30.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Data drawn from the Australian Homicide Project were used to examine whether and how maternal and paternal filicide perpetrators differ in terms of motivations for filicide and childhood and adulthood adversities. In addition, key differences between filicide and non-filicide perpetrators were examined. Data were collected across a number of states and territories in Australia between 2010 and 2013 through interviews with 231 men and women convicted of murder or manslaughter. Of these participants, 14 had perpetrated filicide. Detailed information on the developmental background of the perpetrators, as well as motives and situational contexts of the homicide incidents, was gathered through the interviews. Findings from the current study reveal some important gender differences among filicide perpetrators. For example, filicidal fathers are more likely to perpetrate accidental filicide, and to report unemployment, alcohol and drug problems and previous engagement in child abuse, while filicidal mothers are more likely to perpetrate altruistic or neglectful filicide, and to report mental health problems. In addition, male filicide perpetrators report a greater number of adversities compared to male non-filicide perpetrators, while female filicide perpetrators display fewer adversities compared to their non-filicide counterparts. (Publisher abstract)
Family factors that differentiate sexually abused and nonabused adolescent psychiatric inpatients
- Authors:
- REINEMANN Dawn H.S., STARK Kevin D., SWEARER Susan M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 18(5), May 2003, pp.471-489.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This American study examines whether family factors would differentiate sexually abused and nonabused adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Fifty-seven psychiatric inpatients, ages 11 to 17, who either had experienced sexual abuse or had not history of sexual victimisation completed a diagnostic interview and were assessed on a variety of family indices. Results indicates that after controlling for level of depression, sexual abused adolescents could be differentiated from their nonabused counterparts based on family variables. Sexually abused adolescents reported their families as more authoritarian and more enmeshed. They also perceived more negative messages from their nonoffending father figures about the world. Exploratory gender analyses revealed that sexually abused females reported greater levels of depression than sexually abused males.
Child homicide psychiatric disorder and dangerousness: a review and an empirical approach
- Authors:
- STROUD Julia, PRITCHARD Colin
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 31(2), April 2001, pp.249-269.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Recently there has been increased professional recognition of the association between adult psychiatric disorder and childcare, although the association with child homicide continues to be overlooked. By reviewing the psychiatric child homicide studies and analysing of a decade of child murder in two English counties, the authors propose how dangerousness, psychiatric disorder and child homicide may be conceptualised. Whilst the vast majority of psychiatrically disturbed people pose no threat to their children, the psychiatrically disordered are over-represented in unselected child homicide case samples, women account for almost half the assailants and assaults are predominately an intra-familial phenomenon. Extra-familial assaults are associated with a sexual motive.
Betrayed as boys: psychodynamic treatment of sexually abused men
- Author:
- GARTNER Richard B
- Publisher:
- Guilford Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 368p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Discusses psychotherapy for male adult survivors of child sexual abuse, with reference to masculinity, same-sex abuse, the familial and cultural context of abuse, dissociative disorders, the relationship between therapist and client, and group therapy.
Are worries, satisfaction with oneself and outlook in secondary school students associated with mental health in early adulthood?
- Authors:
- KINNUNEN Pirjo, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 12(2), May 2010, pp.4-10.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The aim of this study was to identify factors in adolescence which are associated with mental health problems in early adulthood. In the long term study, data on worries, satisfaction with oneself and future outlook were collected from 235 14 year old adolescents (116 girls, 119 boys) in 1996 using a structured questionnaire. Subjects were part of a larger project carried out in two Finnish secondary schools in Eastern Finland. Mental health data were collected via a postal questionnaire from the same subjects as the age of 24 years using the SCL-90 instrument. The questionnaire was returned by 149 young adults (63.4%), 88 females and 61 males. Mental health problems were common in early adulthood; 42% of females and 22.9% of males exceeded the clinical cut-off of 0.9 for symptoms in at least two dimensions of the SCL-90. Adolescents’ worries about family finances and conflicts at home were associated with mental health problems in later life in both genders. Worries about achievement at school and parental unemployment in females, and lack of friends and busy parents in males, were associated with mental health problems at the age of 24. The authors conclude that adolescents’ perceptions of their worries, satisfaction with oneself and outlook are important factors to consider in attempts to promote mental health.
Gender, kinship and caregiver burden: the case of community-dwelling memory impaired seniors
- Authors:
- CHUMBLER Neale R., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 18(8), August 2003, pp.722-732.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study examined whether there were gender and kinship (spouse, child, more distant relative) differences in caregiver burden. It further examined the constellation of gender and kinship by examining whether adult daughter caregivers experienced greater burden compared to wives, husbands, sons, and other more distant relatives. The sample consisted of 305 family caregivers of memory-impaired individuals who were age 70 years or older and resided in non-institutional settings in Arkansas. A cross-sectional design was employed using validated measures to assess both the memory-impaired elders' and family caregivers' self-reported physical and memory status. After controlling for the age and health status characteristics of the memory-impaired elder, sociodemographic and health status characteristics of the family caregiver, and the caregiver coping response (measured by the sense of coherence), multiple regression analyses found kinship, but not gender differences in caregiver burden. Adult children experienced more caregiver burden than more distant relatives. There were no significant differences in caregiver burden between adult children and spouses. Adult daughters had greater caregiver burden scores compared to more distant relatives, but had comparable scores to wives, sons, and husbands. Other significant correlates of burden included caregiver personal characteristics (age and ethnicity) and the sense of coherence. The study discusses the practice implications of adult children and adult daughters' propensity to suffer burden when caring for their memory-impaired parents living in the community. It also discusses the relevance of caregiver personal characteristics and the sense of coherence as correlates of burden.
'A pair of stout shoes and an umbrella': the role of the mental welfare officer in delivering community care in East Anglia: 1946-1970
- Authors:
- ROLPH Sheena, ATKINSON Dorothy, WALMSLEY Jan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 33(3), April 2003, pp.339-359.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article describes an oral history research project which explored a little-known aspect of the history of social work: the history of mental welfare officers and their role in community care. We interviewed former MWOs and analysed both private and public documents to explore this history in East Anglia between 1946 and 1970. In the paper we address three themes. In the first place, we argue that MWOs, as well as carrying out their statutory function in overseeing hospital admissions, had a significant role in community care for people with learning difficulties and psychiatric problems. They began to advocate on behalf of clients, often making a case for home support and they supported parents' groups. Increasingly, they carried out case-work and painstaking social work with families. In the second place, we explore the surprising finding that, among MWOs, genericism was not as new a concept in 1970 as many writers have assumed. Finally, we analyse some gender issues that emerged from the research and the way they influenced attitudes to community care held by some MWOs. The paper looks at the gradual development of a profession from one with little consistent training, to one in which specialist education began to be seen as an important aspect of the role of the MWO.
Family burden of schizophrenia and depressive illness: specifying the effects of ethnicity, gender and social ecology
- Authors:
- JENKINS Janis H., SCHUMACHER John G.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 174, January 1999, pp.31-38.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The burdens experienced by relatives of mentally ill persons are substantial. Studies the relationship between family burden and sociocultural context, through a comprehensive study of Euro-Americans and Latinos.
Engendering social policy
- Editors:
- WATSON Sophie, DOYAL Leslie
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 217p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Looks at how social policy constructs gendered social relations. Includes chapters on: the changing worlds of work and families; sex, gender and health; women in urban areas; caring in a rural community; child protection policy and practice; the criminalisation of female poverty; domestic violence in the 1990s; fatherhood, children and violence - the UK in an international context; mainstreaming equality; and the role of mental health policy in reconstructions of madness in the 1990s.