The Neglect of Children and Culture: Responding to Child Maltreatment With Cultural Competence and a Review of Child Abuse and Culture: Working With Diverse Families *

Hughes, Theresa A.

doi:10.1111/j.1744-1617.2006.00103.x

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“…Ethnicity-based and immigrant stereotypes can lead to a different comprehension of family behaviors, increasing or decreasing the evaluation of risk factors (Keddell & Hyslop, 2019). Moreover, an educational practice could be considered as normative in some cultures, while creating the basis for maltreatment in another, like in western cultures (Hughes, 2006).…”

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The CPS Workers’ Child Removal Decision in Cases of Domestic and Witnessed Violence

Milani

Grumi

Camisasca

et al. 2022

J Interpers Violence

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This study aimed to explore maternal and paternal risks and protective factors that may influence the Child Protection Service (CPS) workers’ child removal decision in case of domestic and witnessed violence. In all, 218 case reports of Italian CPSs were retrospectively analyzed through the Protocol of Risk and Protective Factors. The sample was then split up into two groups on the basis of the CPS professionals’ placement decision after the investigation (child removal decision versus parents support and monitoring intervention). Two statistical approaches were used to identify the patterns of risk and protective factors associated with maternal and paternal assessments: logistic regression models and decision tree analysis. Results showed that mothers who are victims of Intimate Partner Violence experienced the child removal in about half of the cases, while fathers showed a higher removal rate. Differences emerged between mothers’ and fathers’ risk profiles, suggesting that workers attributed a different weight to some factors depending on whether they concerned the mother or the father. Only the proximal risk factor poor empathy skills was significant for both mothers and fathers. For the mothers’ group, one of the most important factors was the presence of direct forms of child maltreatment in addition to witnessed violence, while for fathers’ group the drug abuse emerged a crucial relevant proximal risk factor.

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The CPS Workers’ Child Removal Decision in Cases of Domestic and Witnessed Violence

Milani

Grumi

Camisasca

et al. 2022

J Interpers Violence

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“…With respect to ethnic diversity, our participants were 99.6% Caucasian heterosexual women but other studies show that ethnic origin can affect results. For example, higher occurrence of child abuse and child neglect have been reported among Black, Hispanic, and Asian/Pacific Islander children (Hughes, 2006), and have been related to extra stress due to poverty, poor housing, unemployment, low income, immigration, language difficulties, cultural differences, mental health problems, and discrimination (London Safeguarding Children Board, 2011). Our study should therefore be replicated in other ethnic groups and also among people with different sexual orientation, as sexual-minority youths are more likely to experience sexual abuse, parental physical abuse, and peer victimization during childhood and adolescence (Friedman et al, 2011).…”

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Resource Loss Moderates the Association Between Child Abuse and Current PTSD Symptoms Among Women in Primary-Care Settings

Costa

Guimarães

Ferreira

et al. 2016

J Interpers Violence

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This study examined if abuse during childhood, rape in adulthood, and loss of resources predict a woman's probability of reporting symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and whether resource loss moderates the association between reporting childhood abuse and PTSD symptoms. The sample included 767 women and was collected in publicly funded primary-care settings. Women who reported having been abused during childhood also reported more resource loss, more acute PTSD symptoms, and having suffered more adult rape than those who reported no childhood abuse. Hierarchical logistic regression yielded a two-variable additive model in which child abuse and adult rape predict the probability of reporting or not any PTSD symptoms, explaining 59.7% of the variance. Women abused as children were 1 to 2 times more likely to report PTSD symptoms, with sexual abuse during childhood contributing most strongly to this result. Similarly, women reporting adult rape were almost twice as likely to report symptoms of PTSD as those not reporting it. Resource loss was unexpectedly not among the predictors but a moderation analysis showed that such loss moderated the association between child abuse and current PTSD symptoms, with resource loss increasing the number and severity of PTSD symptoms in women who also reported childhood abuse. The findings highlight the importance of early assessment and intervention in providing mental health care to abused, neglected, and impoverished women to help them prevent and reverse resource loss and revictimization.

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Longitudinal relationships amongst child neglect, social relationships, and school dropout risk for culturally and linguistically diverse adolescents

Choe

2021

Child Abuse & Neglect

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The Neglect of Children and Culture: Responding to Child Maltreatment With Cultural Competence and a Review of Child Abuse and Culture: Working With Diverse Families *

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

The CPS Workers’ Child Removal Decision in Cases of Domestic and Witnessed Violence

The CPS Workers’ Child Removal Decision in Cases of Domestic and Witnessed Violence

Resource Loss Moderates the Association Between Child Abuse and Current PTSD Symptoms Among Women in Primary-Care Settings

Longitudinal relationships amongst child neglect, social relationships, and school dropout risk for culturally and linguistically diverse adolescents

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