Advances in research definitions of child maltreatment

Manly, Jody Todd

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2005.04.001

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“…Current mood state and current psychopathology, different cultural background and 'search for meaning' (by which the subjects tend to search the reasons for the present distress in their past experiences) have all been reported to possibly affect the accurate retrieval of past events. 38,69,70 Furthermore, retrospective studies obtaining data about CM from adults are likely to underestimate the maltreatment because of forgetting. Therefore, it may be possible that we have undercaptured the extent of CM in the sample.…”

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Childhood maltreatment in subjects with male-to-female gender identity disorder

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Childhood maltreatment in subjects with male-to-female gender identity disorder

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“…These criteria are based on the classical proposal by Finkelhor and Hotaling (1984), and their use should be encouraged. However, difficulties remain in reaching a consensus on the definition of child maltreatment and sexual abuse (Manly, 2005), in part because it is determined by cultural and community standards (Bradley & Lindsay, 1987).…”

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The international epidemiology of child sexual abuse: A continuation of Finkelhor (1994)

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Guilera

Forns

et al. 2009

Child Abuse & Neglect

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a b s t r a c tObjective: The purpose of this paper was to compare the prevalence rates of child sexual abuse reported by [Finkelhor, D. (1994). The international epidemiology of child sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 18 (5),[409][410][411][412][413][414][415][416][417] with those found in recent publications in order to confirm the widespread prevalence of child sexual abuse. Methods: Relevant articles about prevalence of child sexual abuse were identified through searches of computerized databases and a handsearch of Child Abuse & Neglect and the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. Results: Thirty-eight independent articles were identified, corresponding to 39 prevalence studies; these articles report the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse in 21 different countries, ranging from 0 to 53% for women and 0 to 60% for men. Conclusions:Comparison of the present study with that of [Finkelhor, D. (1994). The international epidemiology of child sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 18 (5), 409-417] shows a similarity between prevalence distributions; there appears to be a general pattern that remains more or less constant over the years, especially in women. Practice implications: Twelve years after the first revision study about the international prevalence of child sexual abuse, there is still a need for new data about this topic. The present study shows child sexual abuse is still a widespread problem in the society. In this research, carried out on 38 independent studies, there is new data for 21 countries over the world, being especially relevant the results obtained from other countries different from those pertaining to North America or Europe. It is important to point out the high prevalence found in most of the countries, so this information could be a new warning to make society and governments aware of this problem and undertake actions to prevent sexual abuse in childhood.

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“…Although consensus definitions of child maltreatment include five types, i.e. physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional abuse, emotional neglect and sexual abuse [8][9][10], and the emotional types of maltreatment seem to have similar detrimental health effects as sexual and physical abuse [11], the emotional forms of maltreatment have commonly been excluded from large-scale representative surveys in different countries [12][13][14][15]. In addition, similar to the other studies Wetzels [7] concentrated on the assessment of physical and sexual abuse using an ad-hoc developed scale that does not allow a comparison of results with other surveys or data from clinical populations that used different questionnaires.…”

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Frequency of Child Maltreatment in a Representative Sample of the German Population

Iffland¹,

Brähler²,

Neuner³

et al. 2015

Childhood Adversity and Developmental Effects

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Background: Representative data about the frequency of child maltreatment is needed in order to estimate the extent of the problem in the wider population as well as to provide the basis for interpretation of frequency rates in clinical samples. However, previous representative studies on the frequency of child maltreatment in Germany and other countries were limited as they focused on the assessment of physical and sexual abuse whilst emotional forms of maltreatment were ignored. In addition, previous studies applied scales that had not been validated against external criteria.

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Advances in research definitions of child maltreatment

Cited by 211 publications

References 19 publications

Childhood maltreatment in subjects with male-to-female gender identity disorder

Childhood maltreatment in subjects with male-to-female gender identity disorder

The international epidemiology of child sexual abuse: A continuation of Finkelhor (1994)

Frequency of Child Maltreatment in a Representative Sample of the German Population

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