External Pressure/Internal Change: Child Neglect on the Navajo Reservation

Hauswald, Lizabeth

doi:10.1007/978-94-009-3393-4_8

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“…Numerous child welfare scholars have explored the etiology of child maltreatment across cultures, including child neglect, child physical abuse, and child sexual abuse, and have found a variety of contributing factors. Substance abuse is the most frequently associated factor contributing to child maltreatment across cultures (Berlin, 1987;DeBruyn, Lujan, & May, 1992;Gelles, 1987;Hauswald, 1987;Lujan, DeBruyn, &May, 1989;PiaseckietaL, 1989). In addition, the impact of witnessing violence in the home is strongly correlated with child abuse.…”

Section: Child Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

Growing Up Indian: Treatment With Urban Indian Adolescents.

Clark

Witko

2006

Mental Health Care for Urban Indians: Clinical Insights From Native Practitioners.

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American Indian youths experience a variety of conditions related to mental health functioning. These include alcohol and drug abuse, depression, anxiety, suicide, and dual axis diagnosis (Flynn, Clark, Aragon, Stanzell, & Evans-Campbell, 1998). This is compounded when one adds the pressures of growing up in an urban environment in which the struggle to define oneself as an Indian person is difficult, especially if one is of mixed heritage. In large part, it appears that many of these issues stem from greater social, economic, and sociocultural problems within the community, including the intergenerational trauma that impacts all Native people.

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Section: Child Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

Growing Up Indian: Treatment With Urban Indian Adolescents.

Clark

Witko

2006

Mental Health Care for Urban Indians: Clinical Insights From Native Practitioners.

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“…Ample evidence associates child neglect and abuse with several interrelated socioeconomic factors. The most frequently associated factor contributing to child maltreatment across a wide range of cultures is substance abuse (Berlin, 1987;DeBruyn et al, 1992;Gelles, 1987;Hauswald, 1987;Lujan, DeBruyn, & May, 1989;Piasecki et al, 1989). Scholars have also found an association between rates of maltreatment and certain types of family structure, including higher divorce rates, teenage births, births out of wedlock, and single parenthood (Giovannoni & Billingsley, 1970;Polansky, Chalmers, Williams, & Buttenwieser, 1981).…”

Section: Socioeconomic Factors Related To Child Maltreatmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many children died in these institutions, and many more were mistreated (Adams, 1995). Child abuse and neglect were commonplace, and children were often punished by physical means or neglect (Hauswald, 1987). Countless others were sexually abused in the schools (Smith, 2003).…”

Section: Child Welfare Policy In the United States: A Historical Pers...mentioning

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Indian Child Welfare Practice Within Urban American Indian/Native American Communities.

Evans-Campbell¹

2006

Mental Health Care for Urban Indians: Clinical Insights From Native Practitioners.

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hildren are the future of any community. Through them, tradition and culture remain alive and are passed on to new generations. At a time when many American Indian/Native American (hereafter referred to as AIAN or Native) communities are determined to protect their cultural inheritance, the role of children as the sustainers of tribal survival is essential. Without them, Native communities are literally in danger of losing themselves, and when children are mistreated or are taken from Native communities, the future of the entire community is put at risk. This may be especially true in urban Native communities where efforts to preserve Native culture and family norms can be especially challenging.One of the biggest challenges Native communities face today is the struggle to keep Native children in their communities. Too many tribal children are involved in the child welfare system, and reports of child maltreatment among Native families, already high, continue to rise. The statistics are dramatic: i Child maltreatment rates for American Indian children are the second highest in the country (21.3 cases per 1,000), higher than those for Asian children (2.7 cases per 1,000), Hispanic children (9.9 cases per 1,000),

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