Stereotypes and unconscious bias in institutional child sexual abuse: Barriers to identification, reporting and prevention
AbstractChild sexual abuse within institutional settings has been a major concern for governments around the world for many years. Consequently, prevention policies have been developed, and institutional child abuse laws have been strengthened in many jurisdictions. Legislation is important to prevent reoffending, however, the majority of childhood sexual abuse remains unreported and undetected. While awareness of the failings of institutions to properly identify and respond to child abuse has grown in recent years, barriers to reporting institutional abuse remain understudied, impacting the ability to prevent abuse. One p...
Source: Child Abuse Review - March 23, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Suzanne Arnold, Elizabeth L. Jeglic Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

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Source: Child Abuse Review - March 20, 2024 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research

Building Rapport in Interviews with Adolescent Trafficking Victims
We examined transcripts of interviews conducted by federal interviewers (n = 12,653 question-answer turns across 33 interviews) and police (n = 4,972 question-answer turns across 14 interviews) with trafficked youth between the ages of 12 and 18. Interviews were reliably coded for the length of pre-substantive questioning, provision of instructions and ground rules, and use of rapport building and supportive strategies. Federal inter viewers used pre-substantive instructions and built rapport with potential victims more often than police did. Also, and although infrequently used overall, supportive interviewing str...
Source: Child Abuse Review - March 19, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Rachel E. Dianiska, Emma Simpson, Sarah Kim, Thomas D. Lyon, Jodi A. Quas Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Cyber Child Pornography and Neo ‐Legal Responses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
This article examines the legal framework in the UAE related to cyber child pornography, with a particular focus on the new Federal Law No. 34 of 2021 on Combating Rumours and Cybercrimes, as well as Federal Law No. 3 of 2016 on Child Rights. Additionally, the paper explores the compatibility of the UAE's relevant laws with the Council of Europe (CoE) Convention on Cybercrime. This article highlights the significance of having laws in place to combat cyber child pornography and provides recommendations for further improvement in the UAE's response to these crimes. (Source: Child Abuse Review)
Source: Child Abuse Review - March 16, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Alaeldin Mansour Maghaireh Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

The spectrum of concern for medical child abuse among adolescents with chronic pain due to central sensitisation
AbstractAdolescents with chronic pain can at times present with disability out of proportion to diagnostic workup. This is also a defining feature of medical child abuse (MCA). The aim of this study was to identify themes from the clinical narratives of adolescents with chronic pain that may indicate concern for MCA. This qualitative, retrospective study at an academic children's hospital between 2011 and 2019 identified 37 adolescents aged 13 –18 years old with chronic pain and varying levels of concern for MCA. Conventional, inductive content analysis was used to identify themes from the medical records of all patien...
Source: Child Abuse Review - February 20, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Katie L. Johnson, See Wan Tham, Emily C. B. Brown, Gary A. Walco, Kenneth W. Feldman, Rebecca T. Wiester, Stephanie N. Wilkins, Kristine A. Campbell Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

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Source: Child Abuse Review - February 13, 2024 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research

Factors Influencing Clinicians', Health Visitors' and Social Workers' Professional Judgements, Decision ‐Making and Multidisciplinary Collaboration When Safeguarding Children with Burn Injuries: A Qualitative Study
AbstractBurns are a common injury to young children, sometimes related to neglect or physical abuse. Emergency department (ED) clinicians, health visitors and social workers must work collaboratively when safeguarding children with burns; however, little is known about the factors influencing their professional judgements, decision-making and multidisciplinary collaboration. Objective was to explore factors affecting ED clinicians', health visitors' and social workers' professional judgements and decision-making when children present to the ED with burns, and experiences of multidisciplinary collaboration, to identify area...
Source: Child Abuse Review - February 6, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Laura E. Cowley, C. Verity Bennett, Harriet D. Quinn ‐Scoggins, Diane Nuttall, David Wilkins, Alison M. Kemp Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Context matters: Conceptualising and operationalising the contextual prevention of child sexual abuse
AbstractThere is growing recognition of the contextual dynamics of child sexual abuse, with a developing evidence base supporting it, sparking calls to ensure prevention efforts are contextualised. Contextual approaches extend the focus of prevention beyond the individual, to include immediate situations, and the physical and social contexts in which abuse occurs. Although academic and industry support for contextual approaches is gaining momentum, there is no consistent definition of contextual prevention nor operational clarity currently available to inform research, policy and practice. This contributes to a lack of pol...
Source: Child Abuse Review - January 31, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Susan Rayment ‐McHugh, Nadine McKillop, Dimity Adams, Daryl J. Higgins, Douglas H. Russell Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

What do you Think about Parenting? Challenges to Cohesiveness in Child Protection Teams
This study aimed to explore and characterise the existing agreement (and disagreement) between child protection workers on statements related to judgements on parenting. A total of 325 Portuguese social workers participated in the study, mostly with a background in social work and psychology and more than six years of experience in child protection. Professionals were required to distribute 50 sentences in a scoring sheet (Q-sort methodology) with 11 points. The results were interpreted through the matrix of operationalisation of minimally adequate parenting. Three main answer strands revealed differentfocuses in sorts' co...
Source: Child Abuse Review - January 25, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Dora Pereira Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Exploring social workers' views on assessing child neglect in England and Wales
AbstractChild neglect poses many issues for social work, notably in terms of effective assessment leading to informed intervention targeting the needs of children and families. In response to this challenge, our multiphase research project is developing a new multiagency child neglect measurement tool. The phase of the project reported in this article administered an online survey via Qualtrics to explore the views of children and families social workers on assessing child neglect. One hundred and twenty-nine completed responses were received from registered children and families social workers in England and Wales. The ma...
Source: Child Abuse Review - January 24, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Simon Haworth, Jason Schaub, Paul Montgomery Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

High ‐Risk Behaviours, Suicide and Social Isolation in Street Adolescents in Iran: A Cross‐Sectional Descriptive Study
This study aimed to investigate high-risk behaviours among street adolescents and the factors involved. This study was a cross-sectional study of 124 street adolescents in Shiraz. Data were collected through four questionnaires: demographic information, Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation (BSSI), Iranian Adolescents Risk Scale (IARS) and Russell Social Isolation Scale in the form of interviews. The highest mean risky behaviour in these participants was 17.07  ± 3.31 for sexual intercourse. The lowest risky behaviour observed in adolescents was high-risk driving, averaging 8.21 ± 2.59. According to the results, 31.5 ...
Source: Child Abuse Review - January 24, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Zakiye Ghelbash, Hamed Ghasemloo, Tahereh Ghelbash, Ehsan Sharifi Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Child Fatality Individual Case Reports: A 24 ‐Year National State‐by‐State Review
This study focused on the content of 1186 Child Fatality Review Board individual case reports collected nationally over a 24-year period (1995 –2019). This information, in contrast to group data, may yield important insights into the causative factors, especially for child fatality resulting from neglect and inflicted injury. The reports were collected from six of the 50 states and evaluated for the quality and amount of information. The y were also surveyed for data identifying causative factors for neglect and inflicted injury. Only 25 (2 per cent) of 1186 reports that are publicly available contained sufficient inform...
Source: Child Abuse Review - December 19, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: David M. Mantell, Natalie Chong, Todd Takeno, Michelle Pazdur, Taylor Walker Tags: Short Report Source Type: research

Addressing the Complexity of Violent Discipline: A Perspective from Taoyuan Psychiatric Center, Taiwan
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Source: Child Abuse Review - December 18, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Lien ‐Chung Wei Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

Understanding practice with culturally and linguistically diverse children and young people who have experienced domestic and family violence: A practitioner perspective
AbstractThere is a dearth of research focused on practice responses with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) children and young people experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV). This knowledge gap may result in a lack of professional guidance and clarity for practitioners who work in this complex context. This small-scale qualitative research study explored practice responses with CALD children and young people. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine practitioners who supported and responded to CALD children and young people and their families at the intersection of DFV and child protection. Dat...
Source: Child Abuse Review - December 11, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Sally ‐Ann Keipert, Carmela Bastian Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Children and sexual ‐based online harms: A guide for professionals By Catherine Knibbs, London: Routledge. 2024. £19.99 (p/b). ISBN 9781032427584
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Source: Child Abuse Review - November 22, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Vicky Styan Tags: Book Review Source Type: research