Violence is elevated in older adolescents and adults with schizophrenia; however, little is known about younger children. This report focuses on rates of violence in younger children with schizophrenic-spectrum illnesses. A retrospective review of structured diagnostic interviews from a case series of 81 children, ages 4-15 years of age, with childhood onset of schizophrenic-spectrum illness is...

Street children are exposed to violence, and subsist in poor and generally precarious conditions. In conflict regions, institutional care facilities are often the only well established way to care for vulnerable children. Providing access to school education is considered to be key to allow successful integration into society. However, adverse effects of psychological disorders may pose another...

Social service professionals are more frequently identifying children who witness adult domestic violence as victims of that abuse. This article expands common definitions of how children witness violence, and adult domestic violence in particular. Over 80 research papers were reviewed and a variety of behavioral, emotional, cognitive and physical functioning problems among children were found ...

the purpose of this research is to study domestic violence against women in the city of tehran, the results of which may be generalized to all cities in iran due to tehran’s population diversity. having defined certain terms and theories, the writers have presented hypotheses, which have been tested in a field study on a statistical universe of 100 housewives, selected randomly from various are...

Child maltreatment and domestic violence were once considered separate topics both in research and in clinical practice. his brief communication attempts to shed light on the lethal risk posed to children living with domestic violence. It is oped that the acknowledgment of these risks will better inform research and clinical practice to protect children in these ircumstances. Recent studies hav...

This Insight report is based on the experiences of more than 600 professionals in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Serbia and Turkey who regularly come into contact with children who have been exposed to violence. The research found that, in spite of the many recent changes in policy, legislation and practices to improve the responses to violence, the capacity of systems to address violen...