The creation of non-disease: an assault on the diagnosis of child abuse

Translating great novels to the small or large screen inevitably involves the loss of some of the insights gained from the written word and the creation of a new world. Some novels appear to be written with screen translations in mind. Others appear to be impossible to translate. In this article The Kiss, by Kathryn Harrison, is reviewed. The book provides beautifully written insights into the painful world of emotional and psychological child abuse, anorexia and bulimia. There are other important messages in the work, not the least being those that we can learn about the isolation that an abused child can suffer. Such abuse can prepare (or groom) children for later abuse as an adult.

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Developing a Multi-agent Software to Support the Creation of Dynamic Virtual Organizations aimed at Preventing Child Abuse Cases

Multi-Agent Systems - Modeling, Interactions, Simulations and Case Studies ◽

10.5772/14317 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Pedro Sanz ◽

Juan Jose de Benito Marti

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Virtual Organizations ◽

Multi Agent ◽

The Creation

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Sibling Violence

Advances in Social Work ◽

10.18060/22611 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 138-156

Author(s):

Nathan H. Perkins ◽

Susan F. Grossman

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Family Violence ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Elder Abuse ◽

Interprofessional Collaboration ◽

Older Americans ◽

Federal Policies ◽

Sibling Violence ◽

Integral Role ◽

The Creation

Social work has played an integral role in the conceptualization and implementation of policy aimed at prevention and intervention of various forms of family violence. Seminal federal policies to address child abuse and neglect (Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act), elder abuse (Elder Justice and Older Americans Acts), and intimate partner violence (Violence Against Women and Family Violence Prevention and Services Acts) all focus on specific types of violence in the family. To date, however, there are no federal policies specifically addressing physical and/or emotional sibling violence (Perkins, Coles, & O’Connor, 2017; Perkins & O’Connor, 2016). This article examines the exclusion of policy addressing physical and emotional sibling violence considering other family violence policies. Along with prevalence, consequences, and associative factors connected to sibling violence, definitional issues that impede the creation of policy to address this form of family violence are highlighted. Children as a marginalized population, deserving the attention of social workers through policy advocacy will be discussed as well as psychoeducation and interprofessional collaboration that may facilitate the creation of policies aimed at addressing this form of family violence.

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MEDICO-SOCIAL CRITERIA FOR DIAGNOSING CRUELTY TO CHRONICALLY ILL CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY

Российский педиатрический журнал ◽

10.18821/1560-9561-2018-21-4-216-220 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 216-220

Author(s):

Tatiana V. Sviridova ◽

S. B. Lazurenko ◽

M. S. Rtishcheva ◽

A. M. Gerasimova ◽

N. N. Pavlova

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Neurological Diseases ◽

Chronically Ill ◽

Close Connection ◽

Child Gender ◽

The Family ◽

Respiratory Pathology ◽

Chronically Ill Children ◽

The Creation

72 cases of parents’ cruelty to children suffering from various forms of chronic pathology have been analyzed. Medical and social criteria for diagnosing child abuse in the family have been selected. Parents’ cruelty to children was found to be revealed mainly in cases with neurological diseases (44.4%) and patients suffering from chronic respiratory pathology (20.8%), digestion (13.9%). Child abuse in the family did not depend on the child gender, had a close connection with his age and was registered with respect to the children of the senior preschool - 14 cases. (19.4%) and junior schoolchildren - 18 cases (25%) of the ages. In 86% of cases, child abuse was associated with parental disregard for the treatment of children. The authors believe the identified diagnostic criteria to contribute to the creation of an algorithm for the actions of specialists in monitoring and preventing disregard to the treatment of chronically ill children in the family.

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Emergency and Interim Protection

A History of Scottish Child Protection Law ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474444170.003.0010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 280-298

Author(s):

Kenneth McK. Norrie

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Child Protection ◽

Emergency Protection ◽

Public Attention ◽

Protection Orders ◽

Abuse Case ◽

Protection Legislation ◽

The Creation ◽

Interim Measures

This chapter explores two separate but related issues: the development of the rules for emergency protection of children, and the development of the rules that allow interim measures to be taken. With emergency protection, the chapter examines the creation and changing criteria for “place of safety warrants”, and then analyses the problems with these warrants, brought to public attention in the Orkney Child Abuse Case, which led to the Clyde Report of 1992 and the replacement of place of safety warrants with child protection orders. Interim measures have been available since the earliest child protection legislation, and the structure of the process to be followed has changed very little since 1889 to the present day, though the measures available on an interim basis have changed from warrants to interim compulsory supervision orders. The chapter ends with an examination of the definition through the years of “place of safety”.

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Letter To The Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.45.5.895 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 45 (5) ◽

pp. 895-895

Author(s):

Stanley L. Harrison

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Child Abuse ◽

Preschool Child ◽

Central Office ◽

The United States ◽

Poison Control ◽

Standing Committee ◽

Poison Control Centers ◽

Letter To The Editor ◽

The Creation

Dr. Clement A. Smith, Editor of Pediatrics, has forwarded your letter of February 11, 1970, on child abuse, to the Central Office of the Academy for reply. I read with great interest your very thoughtul letter, with its proposal for child abuse centers similar to poison control centers to be located strategically in communities throughout the United States; and for the creation within the Academy structure of a standing committee on child abuse. The Academy's Committee on Infant and Preschool Child has been very interested in this subject.

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The role of affect in feelings of obligation

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002449 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Stefen Beeler-Duden ◽

Meltem Yucel ◽

Amrisha Vaish

Keyword(s):

Positive Emotions ◽

The Creation ◽

Sense Of Obligation

Abstract Tomasello offers a compelling account of the emergence of humans’ sense of obligation. We suggest that more needs to be said about the role of affect in the creation of obligations. We also argue that positive emotions such as gratitude evolved to encourage individuals to fulfill cooperative obligations without the negative quality that Tomasello proposes is inherent in obligations.

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