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Types of Maltreatment
- Physical abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Neglect
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Physical abuse
- non-accidental injury
- 17 or younger
- Munchausen by Proxy
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Sexual abuse
any sexual activity without consent
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Neglect
- act of omission by caregiver, whether intentional or not
- results in physical, emotional, social, or cognitive harm
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Pederasty
- Men using boys for sexual relationships
- Greece and Rome
- Boy Brothels
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Infanticide
- Killing of infants and young children
- controlling population
- crude but not all callous
- sacrifice to gods
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Incest Taboo
- Greeks and Romans
- Oedipus Rex
- men visiting brothels
- Protection from forced sodomy
- Prohibited forcible rape of girls under 10
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Mary Ellen Wilson
- Prevention of Cruelty to Children 1875
- Etta Wheeler: 1874 rescue
- Henry Bergh and Elbridge Gerry, Judge Abraham Lawrence
- Marked beginning of child protection in US
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Henry Bergh
- Helped rescue Mary Ellen Wilson
- protection of Animals
- got with Elbridge Gerry- attorney
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American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Henry Bergh was president and helped Etta Wheeler fight for Mary Ellen Wilson
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Children's Bureau
- 1912- oversee welfare of children.
- switch from non-governmental societies for Prevention of cruelty to children to governmental agencies leading to Children's Bureau
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Child Welfare League of America
result of Carl Christian's paper proposing standards for services and aid provided to children
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John Caffey
- doctor, studied x-rays
- 1946
- non accidental; calcium deposits
- shaken baby syndrome
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"The Battered Child"
- Henry Kempe: director of APA
- spring board for child protection
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Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act 1974
federal government assumes a leadership role in child protection with this act
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digital communication
spoken word
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double bind communication
- paradoxical
- incongruent or impossible to understand
- hearing 2 things
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meta-communication
- using actions to emphasize a point
- punctuate our sentences
- "no cost too high"
- sending of a message about a message
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Family Subsystems
- 1. spousal
- 2. parental
- 3. sibling
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spousal
- couple focused
- provide emotional and sexual intimacy
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parental
- child focused
- guide and control
- provide nurture
- guidance and care
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sibling
- children's relationship with each other
- peer relationships
- learning to fight, negotiate, compete, etc
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Four categories of failure/dysfunction in overwhelmed families
- failure to complete basic family functions
- failure to dealing with changes associated with developmental tasks: potty training
- failure to deal with crises
- failure to deal with social pressures
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"Beyond the interest of the Child"
- society's belief in sanctity of family
- began to make court decisions based on this assumption
- The book, was a resurrection of the argument
- and began to influence parental rights over children's rights
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Family Scapegoat
- family member who is blamed for everything
- Biblical history
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Types of family boundaries
- rigid: allows little contact with outside family
- open/permeable: open to ideas and infos; sleepovers
- poorly defined: who is actually part of family??
- disengaged/differentiated: little interaction between family
- diffused: too open
- enmeshed/fused: too close
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Role complementarity
well adjusted and satisfied with role assignments
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Role conflict
not satisfied with role assignments
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