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Research indicates that the most commonly reported form of abuse of older people in Australia is financial abuse and the majority of perpetrators are family members. The number of people aged 65 years and over in Australia is growing rapidly and the challenges of aging often require support and assistance from family members, so it […]
…This article takes an intersectional approach to how gender and disability affect the likelihood of experiencing violent or sexual victimization in a young adult cohort. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) Wave 4, I adopt a target characteristics approach to victimization. A visible signifier of disability increases the risk […]
…Filicide-suicide, or murder of a child by a parent followed by suicide, has an unknown incidence in both the general and disabled population. As there is no national database, the authors examined known associated factors and newspaper reports to characterize filicide-suicide victims and perpetrators involving children with disabilities. A newspaper search was conducted using LexisNexis […]
…Background: Recent indicators show that domestic violence is prevalent in the United States and in the world. Individuals with disabilities, including those who are deaf or hard of hearing are at a higher risk for physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to a) investigate the prevalence of intimate partner […]
…The role of coping strategies (approach and avoidance) as a mediating factor between parental psychological violence and adolescent behavior problems, both internalized and externalized, as well as the protective role of social support were examined separately for boys and girls. A group of 278 adolescents (mean age: 14.2) were recruited in three high schools located […]
…Maintaining professional boundaries is essential to an effective nurse-patient relation whose sole focus must be on the care and treatment needs of the patient. Complaints about failures to maintain professional boundaries are increasing, with the Nursing and Midwifery Council reporting some 247 new cases in the year 2011-12. This article outlines the scope of the […]
…This mixed methods inquiry examined the school functioning of elementary school-aged children with maltreatment histories and mild cognitive or behavioral disabilities. Quantitative analyses of linked social service and education administrative data bases of 10,394 children in Minnesota with maltreatment histories indicated that 32% were eligible for special education services. Of those children with maltreatment histories […]
…The article analyzes the types of violence among children with disabilities. It describes a study in which prevalence and relative risk of violence were assessed by a systematic review that involved screening of more than 10,000 references, online and otherwise, of terms related to disability and victimisation. The result found that the prevalence was high, […]
…An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including how jurors notices child witnesses with intellectual disabilities (ID), cognitive interview (CI), and adults with ID during identification parade. Resumen realizado por el/los autor/es
…Jewish psychiatric patients were simultaneously exposed to National Socialist exclusion and extermination strategies against the “inferior” in two ways: as Jews and as psychiatric patients. Despite this, their fate has not met with much public or research interest to date. By analysing more than 230 case files and numerous other documents, the article exposes the […]
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