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Grief encounters
- Author:
- COOMBES Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 25.11.98, 1998, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
From violence at work to dealing with disaster casualties, looks at a new report which questions how best to support nurses following trauma.
Child extrafamilial sexual abuse: predicting parent and child functioning
- Authors:
- MANION Ian, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 22(12), December 1998, pp.1285-1304.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Evaluates the emotional and behavioural adjustment of parents and children within 3 months and 1 year after the discovery of extrafamilial sexual abuse. Showed that mothers, fathers and sexually abused children experience clinically significant effects both initially and at 12 months after disclosure. Child age and gender also significantly contributed to the prediction of many of the child outcome measures. Avoidant symptoms, child's internalising behaviour and mothers' initial emotional functioning were significant predictors of longer-term emotional functioning. Results emphasise the need to address children's abuse-related attributions and underscore the need to expand our focus beyond the child victims to the traumatised families.
Recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse: implications for clinical practice
- Authors:
- BRANDON S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 172, April 1998, pp.296-307.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Discusses how the growth in the USA of 'recovered memory therapy' for past sexual abuse has cause great public and professional concern. Describes how a small working group in the UK reviewed their own experience, visited meetings and centres with expertise in this field, interviewed 'retractors' and accused parents, and then began a comprehensive review of the literature. Concludes that when memories are 'recovered' after long periods of amnesia, particularly when extraordinary means were used to secure the recovery of memory, there is a high probability that the memories are false, i.e. of incidents that had not occurred. Offers some guidelines which should enable practitioners to avoid the pitfalls of memory recovery.
Criminal or victim?
- Author:
- WELLARD Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.11.98, 1998, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on draft guidance due soon, which recommends children caught in prostitution should be treated as victims.
Nature or nurture?
- Author:
- SERENY Gitta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.11.98, 1998, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Are people born evil or made evil? The author of the controversial book on the child killer, Mary Bell, tackled the question in the annual Community Care Lecture.
Factors associated with sexual behavior problems in young sexually abused children
- Author:
- HALL Darlene Kordich
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 22(10), October 1998, pp.1045-1063.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Discusses research in Canada looking at identifying variables associated with the presence of sexual behaviour problems in young sexually abused children.
More than skin deep
- Author:
- HOLE Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 19.8.98, 1998, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains the psychological effects that often emerge as patients with major trauma experience when they begin to recover from their physical injuries.
Using sleep dysfunction to explore the nature of resilience in adult survivors of childhood abuse or trauma
- Authors:
- CHAMBERS Elisha, BELICKI Kathy
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 22(8), July 1998, pp.753-758.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
In early studies, resilience to trauma was equated with psychological well-being. This article explores the possibility that such resilience is better described as social-behavioural competency and that, in turn, such competency can conceal emotional pain. A sample completed measures of childhood abuse and trauma, resilient characteristics and sleep dysfunction. The findings are consistent with current conceptualisations of trauma/abuse recovery as involving multiple dimensions of functioning, some of which are more publicly observable than others. Therefore, some apparently resilient individuals may have good social-behavioural competency while still experiencing psychological pain.
A community-based study of well-being in adults reporting childhood abuse
- Authors:
- BELL Diane, BELICKI Kathy
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 22(7), July 1998, pp.681-685.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This article examines well-being and satisfaction with community services in adult survivors of childhood abuse in the USA. A community sample of 109 individuals, 34 reporting childhood abuse (sexual, physical and/or emotional), completed a questionnaire package as part of a study of community well-being, consumption of drug (including nicotine and alcohol), loneliness, depression, and life stress. Results suggest that those reporting childhood abuse tend to experience poorer well-being than those who do not report abuse, even when the "objective" aspects of their circumstances are similar.
Sudden infant death: how do health visitors cope?
- Author:
- WRIGHT Lorraine
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 71(3), March 1998, pp.103-105.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
The sudden and unexplained death of an infant is a devastating experience for parents and siblings, and can be extremely traumatic for the health professionals involved. Describes a study designed to determine how health visitors cope when such a death occurs.