Mental health articles

Characteristics of an ecological and transactional model of child abuse and neglect In 1980, Belsky developed an ecological model of child abuse and neglect. This paper was followed by Cicchetti and Rizley’s 1981 paper in which a transactional model of child abuse and neglect was developed. In more recent years, Cicchetti and Lynch (1993) combined […]

TYPES OF EXTRAFAMILIAL ABUSE This next section furthers the discussion of risk of extrafamilial abuse by reviewing the different groups of perpetrators. In the following section the major types of extrafamilial abuse, including abuse by strangers, acquaintances, authority figures (including abuse by unrelated caregivers), friends of the family, friends, and dates are presented. As discussed […]

National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect Data System The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN), through a cooperative and voluntary federal and state partnership, developed the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1997). An annual report from these findings has been issued since […]

Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3) The most extensive survey of the incidence of child sexual abuse is the Third National Incidence Study (NIS-3) (Sedlak & Broadhurst, 1996). Data for this study were collected during a three-month period in 1993. In a nationally representative sample of 42 counties, child protective services […]