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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Cycle of abuse"”.
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A Vicious Cycle of Abuse: The Relationship between Domestic Violence and Animal Cruelty
… explores research on the relationship between cycles of domestic violence and animal cruelty. It not only depicts that there is an under acknowledged a relationship between the two subjects, but also considers this relationship from multiple perspectives. This paper summarizes what constitutes …
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The Cycle of Abuse for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities who Engage in Sexually Offending Behaviour
… intellectual disability (ID) have higher rates of childhood sexual abuse than other clinical groups, and the general population. Over the past 15 years, research has lent support to the theory of a cycle of abuse, which postulates a relationship or pattern between prior experience of sexual …
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A descriptive study of the role of the children's home in the treatment and management of the abused child
… believes that childhood should be a time of joy and discovery in which children are nurtured and loved so that they may grow up into responsible and caring adults. For some children, this does not occur and they are subsequently admitted to residential care settings because of child …
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From being considered at-risk to becoming resilient: an autoethnography of abuse and poverty
… and therapeutically write about the incestual abuse and poverty experienced from age six until the age of 17. It was also the method by which I decided to disclose how I moved from being considered at-risk and became resilient. This study demonstrated the basic tenets of autoethnography and how …
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Child abuse: an assessment of recognition capabilities, attitudes and reporting practices of primary school teachers in Pietermaritzburg
Background: Child abuse is a global public health problem with serious consequences for the victims and society. Most studies on child maltreatment in South Africa have focused on the role of teachers as perpetrators and the prevalence of abuse within schools. Due to their strategic importance in …
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Creating comfort: a grounded theory of intimate partner abuse survivors' perspective of primary health care visits
… methodology was used to develop an understanding of the experience of primary health care appointments from the perspective of survivors of intimate partner violence. English-speaking females above the age of 18, who by self-report were survivors of domestic violence, were recruited via flyers …
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Methamphetamine and amphetamine differentially affect associative learning: behavioral and neurobiological correlates
… significantly to drug craving and promote the cycle of abuse by increasing susceptibility to relapse. One goal of the studies presented here was to model aspects of the addiction process by examining psychostimulant-induced alterations of associative learning, and how specific neurobiological …
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Experiences of Head Trauma from Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking
Experiences of Head Trauma from Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking: A Systematic Review Purpose Head trauma often occurs within experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV-HT) and whilst health implications of these phenomena and survivors’ help-seeking have been considered separately, …