Psychological Maltreatment Overview
Forms of Psychological Abuse
Implications for Intervention
Assessment of Psychological Maltreatment
Incidence
100
Both abuse and neglect.
What can psychological maltreatment result from?
100
Acts that consistently deny the child opportunities to meet needs for interacting/communicating with peers or adults inside or outside the home.
What is isolating?
100
19 demonstration programs were funded by them in efforts to change abuse and neglect
What is the NCCAN?
100
APSAC stands for:
What is American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children?
100
The number of psychological maltreatment incidences found by Bouchard and his colleagues.
What is 900 of 1000 cases?
200
Chronic patterns of interaction, specific threats to children, constant criticism, verbal assault, and emotional unavailability.
What are examples of psychological maltreatment?
200
Acts that ignore the child's attempts and needs to interact and show no emotion in interactions with the child. Only interacting when absolutely necessary.
What is denying emotional responsiveness (ignoring)?
200
The types of services offered to families during the intervention program study.
What are intensive casework, family support, vocational training, recreation activities and traditional mental health
200
Child's developmental levels, child's relationship with caregiver, intensity frequency and extremeness of psych abuse, social relationships at school or w peers and academic performance
What are ways to assess a child who is a suspect of psychological abuse?
200
Studies with samples taken from general populations
What type of study reports the most accurate number of incidences?
300
A repeated pattern of caregiver behavior or extreme incident(s) that convey to children that they are worthless, flawed, unloved, unwanted, endangered, or of value only in meeting another’s needs.
What is psychological maltreatment?
300
Caregiver behavior that threatens or is likely to physically hurt, kill, abandon or place the child or child's loved ones/objects in recognizably dangerous situations.
What is terrorizing?
300
There is a 75% recidivism rate for this type of abuse.
What is psychological maltreatment?
300
Has similar symptoms of child abuse, but does not always mean the child is psychologically mistreated.
What is PTSD?
300
Bouchard's study got their information on reported incidences by doing this.
What is asking parents to report on the behavior of their partners?
400
The primary components of psychological maltreatment.
What are cognitive, affective, and interpersonal conditions.
400
Caregiver acts that encourage the child to develop inappropriate behaviors. This includes modeling, permitting, or encouraging anti-social behavior, inappropriate behavior or restricting or interfering with cognitive development.
What is exploiting/corrupting?
400
True or False: Unlike the Intervention efforts, the prevention efforts showed a reduction in the rate of physical abuse and neglect.
What is false?
400
The important people to interview or collaborate with when assessing a case.
What are teachers/school, neighbors, grandparents , other professionals such as school counselor teachers.
400
True or false? Psychological maltreatment is the most frequent form of child maltreatment and it co-occures in most cases of child abuse and neglect.
What is true?
500
The child welfare system is committed to the protection of a child’s physical well-being, but is slow to pick up on and recognize this:
What is psychological well-being?
500
Rejection and degradation of a child. This includes shaming and ridiculing a child for showing normal emotions. Caregivers may often single out a child to criticize, punish and publicly humiliate them.
What is spurning?
500
Examples: None of the programs was designed to combat psychological maltreatment. Most of the programs aren’t effective in reducing the incidence of child abuse and neglect. If child maltreatment is identified and appropriate treated is provided to the victims some of the emotional and socio-emotional delays can be mitigated .
What are factors that offset the intervention and prevention programs?
500
Case planning, legal decision making and treatment plans
What do evaluations help plan for?
500
1. An agreed upon definition of psychological maltreatment 2. Populations used (reported cases v. general public) 3. method used to gather information
What are the three reasons for discrepances when finding the number of incidences for psychological abuse cases?
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