That Violent Adolescents Are More Likely to Report Psychological Trauma 2. Children in Kinship Care Face Social and Economic Risks, Finds Report 3. Study Examines Effects of Maternal Abuse on Mothers and Their Children 4. In a recent press release, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that the number of abused and neglected children in the nation declined from over 900,000 in 1998 to an estimated 826,000 in 1999.
Parents continue to be the main perpetrators of child maltreatment.
Among the adolescents surveyed, those who had committed violent acts were more likely to exhibit clinical-level trauma compared with those who had not committed such acts, finds a study published in the April issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The authors also found that female adolescents who had committed violent acts were at high risk for suicide and that adolescents who had committed violent acts were more likely than those who had not to report exposure to violence. The findings were based on an analysis of self-reports from 484 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 who reported attacking someone with a knife or shooting someone within the past year. The authors conclude that DV adolescents should be assessed for exposure to violence and psychological trauma. Flannery DJ, Singer MI, Wester K. 2001.