Download or read book Social Support and Child Maltreatment in the Neighborhood Context written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research addressed how social support influences child maltreatment and how the association varies by neighborhood context using a critical literature review and empirical data analyses with longitudinal data. Major findings are as follows: First, the critical literature review found that previous research on social support and child maltreatment had various definitions and operationalization of social support depending on what forms and sources they chose. The associations between social support and child maltreatment vary by each definition and measure of social support. Previous research had limitations to understanding social support and child maltreatment within a broad ecological system and identifying diverse features of social support. Next, prospective associations found between social support and child maltreatment showed that maternal perceived availability of social support predicted a lower risk of CPS involvement. The impact of perceived social support on child maltreatment was both direct and mediated by a lower level of maternal depression and anxiety, and a higher level of self-efficacy. Received support was associated with more negative psychological symptoms among mothers, but did not predict the risk of child maltreatment. Lastly, the effect of social support in reducing child maltreatment was conditioned by neighborhood disadvantage. In less advantaged neighborhoods, social support was more available and its inverse association with child maltreatment was stronger. Maternal positive perception of neighborhood informal control was directly associated with a lower risk of physical abuse parenting behavior, but did not moderate the effect of social support.
Download or read book Neighborhoods Communities and Child Maltreatment written by Kathryn Maguire-Jack and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores methods for studying child maltreatment in the context of neighborhoods and communities, given their importance in the lives of families. It discusses the ways in which neighborhoods have changed over time and how this that has impacted parenting in the modern context. It also highlights the ways in which policies have contributed to persistent poverty and inequality, which indirectly impacts child maltreatment. An important focus of this volume is to examine the multitude of ways in which the neighborhood context affects families, including structural factors like poverty, segregation, residential instability, and process factors like social cohesion. The volume takes a critical look at the ways in which culture and context affect maltreatment through a community-based approach, and uses this approach to understand child maltreatment in rural areas. The editors and contributors explore innovative prevention approaches and reflect on the future of this field in terms of what remains unknown, how the information should be used to guide policy in the future, and how practitioners can best support parents while being mindful of the importance of context. Addressing an important topic, this volume is of relevance and interest to a wide readership of scholars and students in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as to practitioners and policy makers working with neighborhoods and communities.
Download or read book Neighborhood Context and the Development of African American Children written by Maria Loreto Martinez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Preventing Child Maltreatment Through Social Support written by Ross A. Thompson and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-08-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important characteristic of abuse-prone families has been found to be isolation from supportive ties. This volume encourages programmes and policies to incorporate social support into abuse prevention. The author delineates the challenges and strategies involved in promoting social support; describes natural and formal social networks; analyzes the social isolation experienced by at-risk families; evaluates the effectiveness of various interventions, such as home visit programmes; and addresses the practical challenges of integrating research, policy and practice. Thompson concludes by suggesting that social support be framed in the larger context of child welfare reform.
Download or read book Toward a Child Centered Neighborhood Based Child Protection System written by Gary B. Melton and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current system of protecting society's children from abuse is failing miserably. In this volume, scholars affiliated with universities and professional associations nationwide pinpoint a better strategy. Their research spotlights neighborhood-based child protection systems and provides a comprehensive approach for creating procedures that meaningfully address child maltreatment. The volume discusses the challenges of moving toward such a system within the current legal, political, and cross-cultural contexts of child protection. Examples of promising applications of a community-based approach are cited. Also cited are the legal and practical structural steps to be taken in creating caring communities that effectively address child abuse and neglect.
Download or read book Family and Neighborhood Contexts of Child Maltreatment written by Chelsea Smith Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As demographic trends in union formation and fertility have drastically reshaped U.S. families, the attention of researchers and policymakers has focused on the implications of such changes for children's wellbeing. Most of that work has suggested negative consequences across a variety of outcomes, with recent studies exploring child maltreatment as an extreme danger to wellbeing. In addition to the risk factors associated with family instability and maltreatment, sources of support and resilience--within families as well as the communities in which they live--are also of interest to scholars and policymakers seeking to reduce and prevent the maltreatment of children. This dissertation, therefore, consists of three empirical studies that examine family contexts (family instability) and neighborhood contexts (collective efficacy) of child maltreatment among a diverse group of children and their primary caregivers. Informed by theories from sociology, criminology, developmental psychology, and social work, I used longitudinal, multilevel analyses to investigate: 1) the connection and underlying mechanisms between parents' union transitions and trajectories of child maltreatment; 2) whether household composition is associated with the likelihood and frequency of two types of child maltreatment across neighborhoods with differing levels of collective efficacy; and 3) how changes in mothers' co-residential partners alter the risk of child maltreatment based on men's characteristics and the level of neighborhood collective efficacy. Across those three aims, this dissertation's findings reveal that children's family lives and their experiences of maltreatment are dynamic and multi-dimensional. Although family instability seems to increase child maltreatment, that association is nuanced in ways that depend on the type of instability and maltreatment considered. Furthermore, neighborhood collective efficacy can be a buffer that reduces some of the risks of child maltreatment that are associated with family instability. Taken as a whole, this dissertation identifies family contexts in which children may experience maltreatment as well as neighborhood contexts that can protect children and support families that may be struggling.
Download or read book Neighborhood Context and the Development of African American Children written by Maria Loreto Martinez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evidence of worsening life conditions, concentration of poverty, and high degree of African American segregation in urban areas has led to a growing interest in how neighborhood contexts effect child development and parenting behavior. This study attempts to understand development in context by focusing on the role of neighborhood influences early in child development and to shed light on the pathways by which family and community resources influence development.
Download or read book Vibrant and Healthy Kids written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are the foundation of the United States, and supporting them is a key component of building a successful future. However, millions of children face health inequities that compromise their development, well-being, and long-term outcomes, despite substantial scientific evidence about how those adversities contribute to poor health. Advancements in neurobiological and socio-behavioral science show that critical biological systems develop in the prenatal through early childhood periods, and neurobiological development is extremely responsive to environmental influences during these stages. Consequently, social, economic, cultural, and environmental factors significantly affect a child's health ecosystem and ability to thrive throughout adulthood. Vibrant and Healthy Kids: Aligning Science, Practice, and Policy to Advance Health Equity builds upon and updates research from Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity (2017) and From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development (2000). This report provides a brief overview of stressors that affect childhood development and health, a framework for applying current brain and development science to the real world, a roadmap for implementing tailored interventions, and recommendations about improving systems to better align with our understanding of the significant impact of health equity.
Download or read book The Social Context of Child Abuse and Neglect written by Leroy H. Pelton and published by New York, N.Y. : Human Sciences Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines psychological, social, economic, environmental, and familial perspectives to examine the causes and characteristics of child abuse and to offer some strategies for protective intervention.
Download or read book Neighborhood Poverty written by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most alarming phenomenon in American cities has been the transformation of many neighborhoods into isolated ghettos where poverty is the norm and violent crime, drug use, out-of-wedlock births, and soaring school dropout rates are rampant. Public concern over these destitute areas has focused on their most vulnerable inhabitants—children and adolescents. How profoundly does neighborhood poverty endanger their well-being and development? Is the influence of neighborhood more powerful than that of the family? Neighborhood Poverty approaches these questions with an insightful and wide-ranging investigation into the effect of community poverty on children's physical health, cognitive and verbal abilities, educational attainment, and social adjustment. This two-volume set offers the most current research and analysis from experts in the fields of child development, social psychology, sociology and economics. Drawing from national and city-based sources, Volume I reports the empirical evidence concerning the relationship between children and community. As the essays demonstrate, poverty entails a host of problems that affects the quality of educational, recreational, and child care services.Poor neighborhoods usually share other negative features—particularly racial segregation and a preponderance of single mother families—that may adversely affect children. Yet children are not equally susceptible to the pitfalls of deprived communities. Neighborhood has different effects depending on a child's age, race, and gender, while parenting techniques and a family's degree of community involvement also serve as mitigating factors. Volume II incorporates empirical data on neighborhood poverty into discussions of policy and program development. The contributors point to promising community initiatives and suggest methods to strengthen neighborhood-based service programs for children. Several essays analyze the conceptual and methodological issues surrounding the measurement of neighborhood characteristics. These essays focus on the need to expand scientific insight into urban poverty by drawing on broader pools of ethnographic, epidemiological, and quantitative data. Volume II explores the possibilities for a richer and more well-rounded understanding of neighborhood and poverty issues. To grasp the human cost of poverty, we must clearly understand how living in distressed neighborhoods impairs children's ability to function at every level. Neighborhood Poverty explores the multiple and complex paths between community, family, and childhood development. These two volumes provide and indispensable guide for social policy and demonstrate the power of interdisciplinary social science to probe complex social issues.
Download or read book Handbook of Child Maltreatment written by Jill E. Korbin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook examines core questions still remaining in the field of child maltreatment. It addresses major challenges in child maltreatment work, starting with the question of what child abuse and neglect is exactly. It then goes on to examine why maltreatment occurs and what its consequences are. Next, it turns to prevention, treatment and intervention, as well as legal perspectives. The book studies the issue from the perspective of the broader international and cross-cultural human experience. Its aim is to review what is known, but even more importantly, to examine what remains to be known to make progress in helping abused children, their families, and their communities.
Download or read book Aggression and Violence written by Richard B. Felson and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on papers originally presented at a conference held in Albany, N.Y., April 5-6, 1991--T.p.
Download or read book Handbook of Child Maltreatment written by Richard D. Krugman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this successful handbook, edited by well-known experts in this field, includes core questions in the field of child abuse and neglect. It addresses major challenges in child maltreatment work, starting with “What is child abuse and neglect?” and then examines why maltreatment occurs and what are its consequences. The handbook also addresses prevention, intervention, investigation, treatment as well as civil and criminal legal perspectives. It comprehensively studies the issue from the perspective of a broader, international and cross-cultural human experience. Apart from a thorough revision of existing chapters, this edition includes many new chapters covering recent developments in this area and other issues not covered in the first edition. There is more focus on substance abuse, psychological abuse, and on social and community involvement and public health provisions in the prevention of child maltreatment. The handbook examines what is known now and more importantly what remains to be researched in the coming decades to help abused and neglected children, their families and their communities, thereby taking the field forward.
Download or read book Developmental Psychopathology Volume 3 written by Dante Cicchetti and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developmental Psychopathology, Volume 3, Risk, Disorder, and Adaptation provides a life span developmental perspective on "high-risk" conditions and mental disorders. Moreover, it examines developmental pathways to resilient adaptation in the face of adversity.
Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Families Communities and Schools for Young Children written by Olivia Saracho and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early childhood education has always been an enterprising one. Innovative models that provide connections among the family, community, and school of early childhood will continue to emerge through the years to acknowledge new educational ideologies, new social demands, and new knowledge. The issues addressed in this volume can provide new directions to prepare early childhood scholars, researchers, and practitioners to work as a team in these different settings.
Download or read book Developmental Psychopathology Risk Resilience and Intervention written by Dante Cicchetti and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examine the latest research merging nature and nurture in pathological development Developmental Psychopathology is a four-volume compendium of the most complete and current research on every aspect of the field. Volume Four: Genes and Environment focuses on the interplay between nature and nurture throughout the life stages, and the ways in which a child's environment can influence his or her physical and mental health as an adult. The discussion explores relationships with family, friends, and the community; environmental factors like poverty, violence, and social support; the development of coping mechanisms, and more, including the impact of these factors on physical brain development. This new third edition has been fully updated to incorporate the latest advances, and to better reflect the increasingly multilevel and interdisciplinary nature of the field and the growing importance of translational research. The relevance of classification in a developmental context is also addressed, including DSM-5 criteria and definitions. Advances in developmental psychopathology are occurring increasingly quickly as expanding theoretical and empirical work brings about dramatic gains in the multiple domains of child and adult development. This book brings you up to date on the latest developments surrounding genetics and environmental influence, including their intersection in experience-dependent brain development. Understand the impact of childhood adversity on adulthood health Gauge the effects of violence, poverty, interparental conflict, and more Learn how peer, family, and community relationships drive development Examine developments in prevention science and future research priorities Developmental psychopathology is necessarily interdisciplinary, as development arises from a dynamic interplay between psychological, genetic, social, cognitive, emotional, and cultural factors. Developmental Psychopathology Volume Four: Genes and Environment brings this diverse research together to give you a cohesive picture of the state of knowledge in the field.
Download or read book A Research Guide to Psychology written by Deborah Dolan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative research guide uses a problem-solving approach to presenting print and electronic resources. Coverage includes: Definition and deep background sources Specialized dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks Current research - Journal Articles and Annual Reviews Tests and Measures Bibliographies U.S. Government Resources Biographical Resources Directories and Organizations Style Guides Diagnostic Measures Career Path and Educational Resources Book Reviews Major Museums and Archives
