Alcohol-related child maltreatment

Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving Infants: Opportunities for Resilience?

Objective: To examine child welfare cases involving infants (less than 1 year old) and identify factors predicting service provision at the conclusion of a maltreatment-related investigation. Method(s): This study involves a secondary analysis of the 2008 Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (OIS-2008). Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to identify the pr...

Child maltreatment in enlisted soldiers' families during combat-related deployments.

CONTEXT Parental stress is believed to play a critical role in child maltreatment, and deployment is often stressful for military families. OBJECTIVE To examine the association between combat-related deployment and rates of child maltreatment in families of enlisted soldiers in the US Army who had 1 or more substantiated reports of child maltreatment. DESIGN AND SETTING Descriptive case ser...

Clinical Considerations Related to the Behavioral Manifestations of Child Maltreatment.

Children who have suffered early abuse or neglect may later present with significant health and behavior problems that may persist long after the abusive or neglectful environment has been remediated. Neurobiological research suggests that early maltreatment may result in an altered psychological and physiologic response to stressful stimuli, a response that deleteriously affects the child's su...

Preventing Child MaltreatMent

Child Maltreatment Research

The recent history of federal support for child maltreatment research paints a mixed picture of inadequate funding and uncertain administrative guidance against a backdrop of growing public concern about the prevalence of child abuse and neglect. This article describes some of the problems that have been identified in federal research funding, administration, and support of research initiatives...