Pediatrics
Child abuse climbs after Friday report cards, study says
Child abuse increases the day after school report cards are released—but only when kids get their grades on a Friday, a study in Florida suggests.
Dec 17, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Report supports reparations for harm to Australians living with dementia
A new report aims to bring awareness to the need for reparations, as well as changes to policy and practice around access to justice, for those with dementia who have suffered harm in residential care.
Mar 13, 2023
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Pediatrics
Genitourinary health problems worse for sexually abused girls
For years, scientists and clinicians have been documenting the significant psychological effects on child victims of sexual abuse. But what about the physical impact? Pascale Vézina-Gagnon, a Ph.D. student researcher at ...
Dec 19, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Child sexual abuse review: Listening to children and young people is crucial
The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA), set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris scandals, has published its final report. Commissioned by then home secretary Theresa May in 2014, the inquiry ...
Nov 3, 2022
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Pediatrics
Better definition needed for reasonable medical certainty in child abuse cases
Physicians use different definitions of "reasonable medical certainty" when testifying as expert witnesses in child abuse cases. The variability is troubling because it could result in flawed rulings, according to researchers ...
Feb 11, 2016
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Health
Breaking the cycle: New study reveals critical gaps in the responses to adolescent family violence
Responding effectively to young people who use family violence requires increased investment and the development of tailored interventions, according to research released by Monash University today.
Oct 5, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
One-third of childhood sexual abuse is perpetrated by another child. A writer tells his story
Journalist Shannon Molloy is used to sharing his story. In his 2020 memoir, "Fourteen" (now adapted for the stage), he wrote about growing up gay in regional Queensland in the 1990s, enduring severe bullying.
Mar 13, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study raises concern of significant under-reporting of child abuse within US Army
Only 20 percent of medically diagnosed child abuse and neglect cases in U.S. Army dependent children between 2004 and 2007 were found to have a substantiated report with the Army's Family Advocacy Program (FAP) - the agency ...
Dec 13, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Pandemic lockdown increases child abuse risk
Hunkering down during the coronavirus pandemic has stressed families and raised the risk for child abuse, Penn State researchers report.
May 12, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The consequences of sexual abuse in Swiss adolescents
In an investigation published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics the harm of sexual abuse in Swiss adolescents is analyzed. Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) comprises activities with actual physical contact ...
Oct 21, 2016
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