CFD 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: Truancy, Physical Abuse, Family Therapy
15 Nov 2018
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Other parental characteristics related to child abuse and neglect. Tendency toward role reversal: whereby the parent depends on the child to gratify parental needs. Parental impulse control problems learned from being exposed to family violence during childhood. Low self-esteem & defensiveness that aims to defend one"s low self-esteem. Blaming others for their problems: seen when a parent scapegoats a child. Physical abuse and neglect falls most heavily on children under age six and greatest risk occurs during the first year of life: most common infant abuse is shaken baby syndrome. High numbers of older children and adolescents are also abused: perception that adolescents do not need protection from parental abuse, negative beliefs: that they are to blame for their own abuse. The presence of a stepfather is in the home. A parent"s prior history of sexual abuse. Age: just after puberty, especially for girls. Insecure attachment and lower levels of self-esteem: that interfere with their ability to trust others.
