Identifying Risk Factors for Child Maltreatment in Alaska

Parrish, Jared W.; Young, Margaret B.; Perham-Hester, Katherine A.; Gessner, Bradford D.

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2011.02.022

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“…Thus, risk factors for maltreatment are unlikely to reside within the child and more likely to reside in features varying across families; though normative discipline in the form of corporal punishment may partly be a function of child effects or shared genes. This is consistent with results from epidemiological studies identifying more extreme adverse early environments, such as inadequate housing (Palusci and Loeb 2011) or public aid as a source of income (Parrish et al 2011), as risk factors for child maltreatment. As stated earlier, bidirectional links between early parenting and these broader psychosocial risk factors are likely.…”

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Gene-Environment Interplay in Parenting Young Children

Henry

Boivin

Tarabulsy

2015

Gene-Environment Interplay in Interpersonal Relationships Across the Lifespan

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Section: Twin Studiessupporting

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Gene-Environment Interplay in Parenting Young Children

Henry

Boivin

Tarabulsy

2015

Gene-Environment Interplay in Interpersonal Relationships Across the Lifespan

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“…If autistic traits share genetic risk with other psychiatric phenotypes, this shared risk could mean that children with high levels of autistic traits are more likely to have parents with mental illness or substance abuse compared with children with low levels of autistic traits. As parents’ mental illness and substance abuse increase risk of child abuse (Parrish, Young, Perham-Hester, & Gessner, 2011; A. L. Roberts, Glymour, & Koenen, 2013; Sidebotham & Heron, 2006; Smith, Johnson, Pears, Fisher, & DeGarmo, 2007), this shared genetic risk could partly account for the high prevalence of childhood abuse we found in women with high levels of autistic traits.…”

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Association of autistic traits in adulthood with childhood abuse, interpersonal victimization, and posttraumatic stress

Roberts

Koenen

Lyall

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Child Abuse & Neglect

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Persons with autistic traits may be at elevated risk for interpersonal victimization across the life course. Children with high levels of autistic traits may be targeted for abuse, and deficits in social awareness may increase risk of interpersonal victimization. Additionally, persons with autistic traits may be at elevated risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms subsequent to trauma. We examined retrospectively reported prevalence of childhood abuse, trauma victimization and PTSD symptoms by autistic traits among adult women in a population-based longitudinal cohort, the Nurses’ Health Study II (N=1077). Autistic traits were measured by the 65-item Social Responsiveness Scale. We estimated odds ratios (OR) for childhood sexual and physical/emotional abuse and PTSD symptoms by quintiles of autistic traits. We examined possible mediation of PTSD risk by abuse and trauma type. Women in the highest versus lowest quintile of autistic traits were more likely to have been sexually abused (40.1% versus 26.7%), physically/emotionally abused (23.9% versus 14.3%), mugged (17.1% versus 10.1%), pressured into sexual contact (25.4% versus 15.6%) and have high PTSD symptoms (10.7% versus 4.5%). Odds of PTSD were elevated in women in the top three quintiles of autistic traits compared with the reference group (OR range=1.4 to 1.9). Childhood abuse exposure partly accounted for elevated risk of PTSD in women with autistic traits. We identify for the first time an association between autistic traits, childhood abuse, trauma victimization, and PTSD. Levels of autistic traits that are highly prevalent in the general population are associated with abuse, trauma and PTSD.

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“…Die sozialpolitische Relevanz der berichteten multikausalen Risikomodelle zeigt sich in der Regel im Versuch, Familien mit spezifischen Risiken und Hilfebedarfen möglichst frühzeitig und umfassend zu identifizieren, um Ihnen Unterstützung anbieten zu können (z. B. Kindler 2010; Parrish et al 2011).…”

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The KiD 0-3 study on the prevalence of psychosocial burden and early prevention in families with children aged 0-3: study design and potential of analyses

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Zusammenfassung Es ist eine seit langem bekannte und vielfach belegte Tatsache, dass familiäre psychosoziale Belastungen das Risiko für Kindesmisshandlung und -vernachlässigung sowie für Verzögerungen der kindlichen Entwicklung erhöhen. Was jedoch noch fehlt, sind verlässliche, repräsentative Daten zur Prävalenz von psychosozialen Belastungen in Familien mit kleinen Kindern in Deutschland. Solche Daten werden dringend benötigt, da der bundesweite Auf-und Ausbau von Ange-382 A. Eickhorst et al. 3boten und Netzwerken Früher Hilfen mit politischen Initiativen auf allen föderalen Ebenen aktuell verstärkt vorangetrieben wird. Um die Hilfelandschaft effektiv zu gestalten, ist fundiertes Wissen um psychosoziale Belastungen von Familien kleiner Kinder dringend erforderlich. Nur so kann auf den Hilfe-und Unterstützungsbedarf von Familien -zum Wohle der Kinder -adäquat reagiert werden. Die Erforschung der Lebensbedingungen, in denen Säuglinge und Kleinkinder aufwachsen, stellt für die Forschung eine methodische Herausforderung dar, da psychosozial hochbelastete Familien eher schwierig für die Teilnahme an einer Studie zu gewinnen sind und die Fragen von den Studienteilnehmern potentiell als heikel wahrgenommen werden könnten. Die KiD 0-3 Prävalenzstudie wurde 2015 an Familien mit 0-3-jährigen Kindern durchgeführt und wird zum ersten mal einen systematischer Überblick über die Verteilung empirisch bestätigter Risikofaktoren in Deutschland geben. Schlüsselwörter Psychosoziale Belastungen · Risiken für Kindesmisshandlung-/ vernachlässigung · Kindliche Entwicklung · Surveyforschung · Frühe HilfenThe KiD 0-3 study on the prevalence of psychosocial burden and early prevention in families with children aged 0-3: study design and potential of analyses Abstract Exposure to family psychosocial burden in early childhood has long been known to increase a child's risk of abuse and neglect as well as of developmental deficiencies. However, in Germany there is a lack of nationally representative evidence on the prevalence of psychosocial burden in families with young children. Such data is urgently needed to better understand the needs of families and to plan prevention efforts within the German federal action plan for early prevention. Surveying the conditions in which infants and toddlers grow up poses a formidable methodological challenge to the researcher, as families with high exposure to psychosocial burden tend to be hard to recruit in survey research and the questions tend to be sensitive. The KiD 0-3 prevalence study of families with children 0-3 years of age was conducted in 2015 and will provide a first systematic overview of empirically confirmed risk factors in Germany.Keywords Psychosocial burden · Risks of child abuse and neglect · Child development · Survey research · Early intervention/prevention

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Identifying Risk Factors for Child Maltreatment in Alaska

Cited by 52 publications

References 24 publications

Gene-Environment Interplay in Parenting Young Children

Gene-Environment Interplay in Parenting Young Children

Association of autistic traits in adulthood with childhood abuse, interpersonal victimization, and posttraumatic stress

The KiD 0-3 study on the prevalence of psychosocial burden and early prevention in families with children aged 0-3: study design and potential of analyses

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