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Showing 1 to 20 of 3361 for “"Abuse"”.
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Clergy Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse perpetrated by trusted members of the clergy presents unique challenges to clinicians and yet the current literature on the effects of clergy sexual abuse is sparse. The vast majority of current research on clergy sexual abuse is based on the perspective of the perpetrators and not the …
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Child sexual abuse: making sense of the abuse of power and control
Child sexual abuse (CSA) poses many difficulties, ranging from definition to explanation. Despite, or because of, this complexity few studies have investigated the relationship between a professional's knowledge base, the conceptualisation of problems and the delivery of therapeutic skills. The …
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Child abuse : psychopedagogical perspective
… study was : to describe the life-world of the abused child from a psychopedagogical perspective; and to determine, in the light of the findings obtained, certain guidelines according to which accountable support could be instituted in order to meet the needs of the abused child. The study …
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SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ATTRIBUTION
… 140 university substance users and 69 substance abusers. Second, this study determined if the actor-observer hypothesis of traditional attribution theory (Jones and Davis, 1965) held using the ARSU.</p><p>The ARSU scale contains six questions which focus on an individual's reasons and perceptions …
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Wife abuse in Thailand
… countries, on the occurrence of wife abuse in a developing Asian society, Thailand. The following variables are organized in two path analysis models: social isolation of the wife, socio-economic status, duration of the marriage, number of children, wife's employment status, husband's …
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Comparing Women In Substance Abuse Treatment Who Report Sexual And/Or Physical Abuse With Women Who Do Not Report Abuse History
… study explored whether women in substance abuse treatment who report a history of sexual and/or physical abuse have different drug use profiles than women who do not report such abuse. The data originated from a NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) study designed to evaluate the effects …
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Adolescents' Experiences of sexual abuse - Prevalence, abuse characteristics, disclosure, health and ethical aspects
… to investigate aspects of self-reported sexual abuse during childhood and adolescence in a population-based study of Swedish high school students. The aim of this thesis was first to investigate the lifetime prevalence of sexual abuse of varying severity and characteristics as well as the …
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Criminality Groups and Substance Abuse
… was designed to determine whether substance abusers could be differentially characterized by past involvement in crimes and, further, whether there is a relationship between the type of substance abused and the degree of violence of the crimes committed. By comparing the socio-demographic …
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Proactive abuse prevention in clouds
… are subject to various forms of infrastructural abuse. Whether it is SaaS, PaaS or IaaS model, attackers and cybercriminals are exploiting clouds to service their needs and using them as a platform to launch attacks and conduct illegal practices. Resultantly, instances where clouds are the source …
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The Effect of Sexual Abuse on Adolescents as Associated with Substance Abuse, Depression and Anger
Rannsóknir hafa sýnt fram á tengsl á milli kynferðislegra misnotkunar, vímuefnamisnotkun, reiði og þunglyndi. Þeir einstaklingar sem hafa orðið fyrir kynferðislegri misnotkun á barnárum eru líklegri til þess að þróa með sér þunglyndi, upplifa reiði og nota vímuefni. Í þessari rannsókn voru …
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Detection of Physical Abuse Barriers to Nurses' Detection of Physical Abuse in Adult Female Clients
… Iowa registered nurses from detecting physical abuse in adult female clients were investigated. The nurses born 1940 or later were randomly selected from the state board of nursing to complete a mailed self-report questionnaire (non-experimental descriptive correlational/analytical inferential …
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Perspectives of Young Sexual Abuse Survivors, Whose Abuse is Unknown to Child Protection Services, about Confidentiality: A Participatory Study Involving Young Abuse Survivors as Co-researchers
… review explored views of young child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors whose abuse was unknown to authorities, about confidentiality. Due to paucity of research, the review included literature about sexual health service users. Seventeen databases and eleven journals were searched and thirty-three …
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The price of early abuse: Effects of sexual and physical abuse on perinatal depression and anxiety
Purpose: Childhood abuse is a major public health concern and a risk factor for poor maternal mental health. This study of 197 racially diverse, low-income women explored the associations between childhood sexual and physical abuse depression and anxiety in pregnancy, 6 weeks postpartum, and 12 …
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Childhood Emotional Abuse, Effects, and Protective Factors: Comparison of Protective Factors between Emotional and Physical Abuse
… conflict the negative effects of emotional abuse on internalizing symptomatology would attenuate. Additionally, the same protective factors were hypothesized to moderate the relationship between emotional and physical abuse and adolescent internalizing symptomatology. Two samples were used …
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