The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to describe parental acceptance and rejection of incarcerated women and to determine whether a relationship exists between parental acceptance and rejection, life time experience of abuse, and documented health status. Intake records of 100 incarcerated women sentenced to community corrections and enrolled in a residential alchohol and drug treatment program from June 2012 to June 2013 were used to examine relationship between the study variables. The retrospective record audit of women incarcerated in a community correctional facility provided data for correlational evaluation. The study concluded that parental acceptance and rejection appear to be associated with life time experience of violence and current health status. Findings provide support for life skill programs for incarcerated women transitioning back to the community.
Trauma-informed care is a popular term used today, yet its application and how it is applied varies. This article will address: what is trauma? what is trauma-informed care (TIC) ? and examples of how to apply the guiding principles of TIC into practice.
The forensic nurse purports a trauma informed and person-centered approach, focusing on the health needs of the patient with a rape experience. Timing of evidence collection recently expanded, but with passing time, DNA detection decreases. One solution proposed for victims is to self-collect following rape. The concept of self-collection was viewed as controversial, evoking mixed provider reactions. To bring clarity to issues faced by victims in remote and rural areas, and for those not ready to report, an integrative literature review method targeted strengths and gaps in evidence necessary for perspective before action or reaction to the post-rape self-collection proposal. The integrative literature review explored PubMed, responsive article citations, and gray literature for publications with systematic- or meta-analysis about self-collection. One article was responsive for self-collection post-rape, so parallel literature about sensitive self-collected testing was used. Analysis identified four areas of consideration: the patient, the medical forensic provider, the evidence, and the system. The authors identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to patients wishing to participate or not in the adjudication of the crimes against them. The authors found gaps in the evidence about rape self-collection and found significant evidence in the self-collection of sensitive tests in the literature that concluded self-collection post-rape is a viable option when instructions meet or exceed the current practices of the forensic nurse responding to rape victims today.
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