Abuse and Violence

Risks Of The Internet For Teenage Girls
by eNotAlone.com
New findings from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center suggest that parents must carefully monitor their teenage daughters' lives on the Internet. According to the study published in the June issue of the journal Pediatrics

Children - Victims Of Abuse
by eNotAlone.com
Child abuse is the physical, psychological, social, emotional or sexual maltreatment of children. The CDC defines child maltreatment as any series of acts by a parent or other caregiver resulting in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child.

Being Mentally Ill Doesn't Mean Being Violent
by eNotAlone.com
According to American researchers mental illness alone does not predict future violent behavior, but mental illness in combination with substance abuse or dependence does increase the risk of violence.

Spousal Abuse: Physical And Emotional
by eNotAlone.com
Spousal abuse is a very difficult behavior to define because it embraces a number of symptoms involving both physical and emotional abuse. Physical abuse includes physical violence, such as beating, hitting, shoving, and any other physical assault

Victimization of Persons with TBI or other Disabilities
by CDC
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, victimization occurs when '... a person suffers direct or threatened physical, emotional, and/or financial harm.' Victimization can include physical violence, sexual violence, psychological or emotional abuse

Caseworker Safety and Support in Child Protection Cases Involving Domestic Violence
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
Given the involuntary nature of child protective services (CPS) intervention, every child protection case has the potential for unexpected confrontation. Cases involving domestic violence may pose additional risks of threats and violence for CPS

Domestic Violence : Child Protection Practices
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
The primary mission of child protective services (CPS) is to preserve the safety, permanency, and well-being of abused and neglected children. In CPS cases involving domestic violence, there is an increased concern that abuse suffered by victims

The Basics of Domestic Violence
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
To establish a foundation for understanding child protection in families experiencing domestic violence, this chapter provides an overview of the definition, scope, and causes of domestic violence, along with the evolving societal responses.

Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
Domestic violence is a devastating social problem that affects every segment of the population. While system responses are primarily targeted towards adult victims of abuse, increasing attention is now focused on the children who witness domestic violence

Domestic Violence, Getting Help for Your Teen
by SAMHSA
Many children who witness violence in the home suffer from anxiety problems. Emily surely has issues with anxiety and may well be feeling the impact of the trauma of what she witnessed. Some of the symptoms of anxiety disorder include restlessness

Betrayal of 'What's Right'
Achilles in Vietnam
by Jonathan Shay, M.D.
Every instance of severe traumatic psychological injury is a standing challenge to the rightness of the social order. - Judith Lewis Herman. We begin in the moral world of the soldier - what his culture understands to be right - and betrayal of that moral

A Unique Research Project on Domestic Violence

While national awareness of the issue of battering has increased, certain myths regarding abusive relationships still endure, including the idea that all batterers are alike. Knowing which type a batterer is can be crucial to gauging whether an abusive

Sancti Spíritus (1955-1957)
A Private Family Matter: A Memoir
by Victor Rivas Rivers
This is a story about how I was saved by love, at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue. So begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of his escape from the war zone of domestic violence - too often regarded as a private family

When Katie Wakes
When Katie Wakes
by Connie May Fowler
Connie May Fowler is known as the author of bestselling novels and powerful essays-but no one knew that for years she was the victim of brutal abuse and relentless humiliation. Now in this harrowing, spellbinding memoir, Fowler finally tells her own story

The Thousand Natural Shocks ...
Common Shock: Witnessing Violence Every Day: How We Are Harmed, How We Can Heal
by Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D.
A groundbreaking work from a renowned trauma expert reveals a problem that profoundly affects everyone-and shows what can be done about it. Harvard Medical School psychologist Kaethe Weingarten has examined the biological and psychological effects

The Search for Certainty
Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)
by Gavin de Becker
Friday was the one evening each week that Holly spent entirely with Kate, usually along with other mothers and their daughters met through Kate's school. This particular Friday, the plan was an early meal at a restaurant, followed by a movie.

In the Presence of Danger
The Gift of Fear
by Gavin de Becker
He had probably been watching her for a while. We aren't sure-but what we do know is that she was not his first victim. That afternoon, in an effort to get all her shopping done in one trip, Kelly had overestimated what she could comfortably carry home.

Catherine's Healing Faith
The Evolving Woman: Intimate Confessions of Surviving Mr. Wrong
by Catherine Lanigan, Jodee Blanco
Tens of thousands of women from all walks of life stay with partners who make them miserable, destroy their self-esteem, manipulate them emotionally, neglect, or perhaps even beat them. Whether the cruelty they endure is physical or psychological

What Trauma Does To People
The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships
by Patrick J. Carnes
Exploitive relationships can create trauma bonds-chains that link a victim to someone who is dangerous to them. Divorce, employee relations, litigation of any type, incest and child abuse, family and marital systems, domestic violence, hostage negotiation

Chapter 1
Silently Seduced: When Parents Make their Children Partners - Understanding Covert Incest
by Kenneth M. Adams, Ph.D.
Did you have a parent whose love for you felt more confining than freeing, more demanding than giving, more instrusive than nurturing? Did you feel trapped in a psychological marriage with this parent? If so, you may be a victim of covert incest.