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Volume 6, Number 14 | July 9, 2008
Child Abuse | Foster Care and Kinship Care |
Fatherhood
Reducing Teen Mortality Rates | Mental Disorders
Child Abuse
Decades Later, Child Abuse Still Reduces Victims' Quality of Life
Child abuse has been linked with long-term physical and emotional ailments including diabetes, heart disease, and depression -- and a new study finds that adults who were abused physically, sexually, or emotionally as children lose an average of more than two years of quality of life. "We found, with rigorous statistical methods, that there are significant differences in health-related quality of life between people who were maltreated as children and those who were not, and that holds across all age groups," said Phaedra Corso, one of the study's authors.
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080528_maltreatment_victims.shtml
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Foster Care and Kinship Care
Living with Relatives May Yield Better Outcomes Than Foster Care
Being removed from one's home because of maltreatment is a traumatic experience for any child, but a report in the June issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine finds that living with relatives rather than in foster care can mitigate some negative outcomes. According to assessments three years after placement, children who were placed with relatives were less likely to have behavior problems than those placed in foster care. Children living with relatives were also less likely to have changed placements frequently -- and that type of stability has also been linked to better outcomes.
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Give grandparents the tools to become great parents all over again
"Raising Your Grandchild; A Grandparent's Handbook" (EM92691)K
This handbook helps grandparents team their experience and their love for their grandchild with updated parenting practices to develop a successful, mutually satisfying relationship.
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Fatherhood
Moms a Strong Force in Encouraging -- or Discouraging -- Dads' Involvement
Fathers play an important role in their children's lives -- but according to a new study, mothers have a huge amount of control in how involved fathers are in taking care of infants. Even after taking into account attitudes about parents' roles, the quality of the parents' relationship, and how much mothers worked outside the home, fathers were still more involved in infant care when encouraged by their partner -- and less involved when criticized or judged. Results of the Ohio State and University of Illinois study appear in the June 2008 issue of the Journal of Family Psychology.
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"Being The Best Father You Can Be; A Parent's Handbook" (EM93270)K
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Reducing Teen Mortality Rates
New Data Illuminate Risky Behaviors Leading to Youth Mortality
Seventy-two percent of deaths among 10- to 24-year-olds in the United States are a result of one of four causes -- and many high school students engage in behaviors that increase their risks. That's according to data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), which includes national, state, and local surveys of students. YRBSS's findings are used to help prevent such high-risk behaviors as alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use; not wearing safety belts and other risky practices on the road; and practicing unsafe sex -- and to help decrease the rates of the major causes of death for America's youth.
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Mental Disorders
New Research, New Hope, for People with Depression and Other Disorders
Can very young children develop depression? Is there hope for adults with anxiety disorders who don't respond to traditional therapies? Are there any new treatments on the horizon for schizophrenia? The answer to all three questions is yes, according to researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, who recently presented findings from their studies at a symposium sponsored by NARSAD, the world's leading charity dedicated to mental health research. These studies could improve treatments and quality of life for Americans with diagnosable mental disorders -- an estimated 57 million people.
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