Poly-victimization: A neglected component in child victimization

Finkelhor, David; Ormrod, Richard; Turner, Heather A.

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2006.06.008

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“…Cross-national population-based initiatives, such as the World Mental Health Surveys, can play an important role in understanding the prevalence, impact, and health systems’ response to mental disorders (Patel, 2012). More research is needed to comprehend the broad physical health, mental health, and developmental impacts of childhood polyvictimization (Felitti et al, 1998; Finkelhor, Ormrod, & Turner, 2007). Additional priorities for improving global mental health research include a focus on adequately training researchers around the world, ensuring a bi-directional flow of information and partnerships in the global mental health research community (Patel & Prince, 2010).…”

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Trauma is a public health issue

Magruder

McLaughlin

Borbon

2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Exposure to trauma is pervasive in societies worldwide and is associated with substantial costs to the individual and society, making it a significant global public health concern. We present evidence for trauma as a public health issue by highlighting the role of characteristics operating at multiple levels of influence – individual, relationship, community, and society – as explanatory factors in both the occurrence of trauma and its sequelae. Within the context of this multi-level framework, we highlight targets for prevention of trauma and its downstream consequences and provide examples of where public health approaches to prevention have met with success. Finally, we describe the essential role of public health policies in addressing trauma as a global public health issue, including key challenges for global mental health and next steps for developing and implementing a trauma-informed public health policy agenda. A public health framework is critical for understanding risk and protective factors for trauma and its aftermath operating at multiple levels of influence and generating opportunities for prevention.

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Section: The Essential Role Of Public Health Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trauma is a public health issue

Magruder

McLaughlin

Borbon

2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

194

134

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“…Since parent-child conflict was unrelated to family structure and, therefore, no longer a candidate for a potential mediator, we excluded this variable from the multivariate analyses. Also, because our measure of multiple victimization represents the most inclusive indicator of victimization exposure and has been shown to have the greatest significance for child well-being (Finkelhor et al, 2007), analyses presented below focus exclusively on multiple victimization. A comparison of the single parent and stepfamily coefficients across Models 1 and 2 of Table 5 shows the contribution of age, gender, race and socioeconomic status (SES) to each of these associations.…”

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“…Recent research suggests that exposure to multiple forms of victimizations may have particularly powerful consequences (Finkelhor, Ormrod, & Turner, 2007;Menard & Huizinga, 2001) and that lifetime victimization explains much of the difference in children's symptom levels across family structure (Turner et al, 2006). To the extent that children in single parent and stepfamilies are at increased risk for victimization, efforts to identify factors that explain or contribute to their elevated risk are clearly warranted.…”

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Family structure variations in patterns and predictors of child victimization.

Turner¹,

Finkelhor²,

Ormrod³

2007

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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In a national probability sample of 1,000 children aged 10Ϫ17, youth from single parent and stepfamilies experienced higher rates of several different kinds of victimization compared with youth living with two biological parents. Youth in stepfamilies had the highest overall rates of victimization and the greatest risk from family perpetrators, including biological parents, siblings, and stepparents. Elevated risk in stepfamilies was fully explained by their higher levels of family problems. Victimization risk in single parent families was more affected by their lower socioeconomic status and residence in more violence neighborhoods and schools.

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“…Multiple childhood adversities appear to be common among individuals who report any such experiences (e.g. Dong et al, 2004; Dube et al, 2003; Green et al, 2010; Kessler et al, 2010), and exposure to multiple traumas in childhood is associated with increased symptom complexity in children and adults (Cloitre et al, 2009; Finkelhor, Ormrod, & Turner, 2007). Although many earlier studies focused on finding specific outcomes related to specific forms of maltreatment, later studies found no such associations (Green et al, 2010; Kessler et al, 2010; Vachon, Krueger, Rogosch, & Cicchetti, 2015).…”

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Childhood maltreatment trauma: a comparison between patients in treatment for substance use disorders and patients in mental health treatment

Rasmussen¹,

Arefjord

Winje

et al. 2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: While previous research has found strong associations between childhood maltreatment trauma and substance use disorders (SUDs), the role of possible moderating effects of gender and mediating effects of psychopathology and SUD is unclear.Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate differences in self-reported childhood maltreatment trauma, general psychological distress, and post-traumatic stress symptoms between 112 patients in treatment for substance use disorders (SUD group) and 112 matched controls with mild to moderate mental health disorders (comparison group).Methods: Childhood maltreatment trauma was measured by the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire – Short Form (CTQ-SF). General psychological distress was measured by the Symptom Checklist-90 – Revised (SCL-90-R), and post-traumatic stress symptoms were measured by the Impact of Event Scale – Revised (IES-R).Results: The SUD group reported more severe childhood maltreatment trauma than the comparison group. Females in the SUD group reported more severe and various forms of trauma compared to males. The SUD group reported higher mean scores on the SCL-90-R, but the proportions of people with caseness scores on the IES-R and the SCL-90-R were similar in the two samples. The SUD group reported more avoidance symptoms than the comparison group.Conclusion: This study adds further evidence to the repeatedly found strong associations between childhood maltreatment trauma and SUD, implying that the prevention of childhood maltreatment trauma may reduce the occurrence of SUD. Furthermore, patients with SUD should be screened for childhood maltreatment trauma, and the results should be applied in trauma-informed as well as trauma-focused interventions aimed to help this population. The association appears to be particularly strong for female substance users.

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Poly-victimization: A neglected component in child victimization

Cited by 1,677 publications

References 53 publications

Trauma is a public health issue

Trauma is a public health issue

Family structure variations in patterns and predictors of child victimization.

Childhood maltreatment trauma: a comparison between patients in treatment for substance use disorders and patients in mental health treatment

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