ALLMedicine™ Child Abuse Center

Aug 14th, 2022 - In this article, we used a novel hybrid approach to review literature concerned with family and domestic violence (FADV) perpetrators. Our intention was to chart the research and publication activity of authors with Australian affiliation to ident...

Aug 14th, 2022 - The purpose of this research is to provide an overview of state laws on domestic violence protection orders (DVPO) for teen dating violence. DVPOs are one legal remedy that is available to victims of intimate partner violence to reduce the potenti...

Aug 10th, 2022 - WestEd and its partners, Efficacity and the Oregon Youth Authority (OYA), were funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to conduct a randomized controlled trial of an innovative teen pregnancy prevention program, Healthy U (for...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Child abuse is associated with adult obesity. Yet, it is unknown how the developmental timing and combination of abuse types affect this risk. This report examined how distinct child and adolescent abuse patterns were associated with incident obes...

Aug 9th, 2022 - This study surveyed a national sample of victim service professionals (N  =  222) and compared rural versus urban/suburban participants' perceptions of a variety of issues, such as the impact of the pandemic on gender-based violence victimization ...

Jun 29th, 2018 - Article 25 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (adopted in Nice on 7 December 2000) recognizes and respects the rights of older people to lead a life of dignity and independence and to participate in social and cultural life...

May 6th, 2017 - The youngest children, particularly in the first year of life, are the most vulnerable to physical abuse. Skeletal survey is the universal screening examination in children 24 months of age and younger. Fractures occur in over half of abused child...

Aug 10th, 2022 - WestEd and its partners, Efficacity and the Oregon Youth Authority (OYA), were funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to conduct a randomized controlled trial of an innovative teen pregnancy prevention program, Healthy U (for...

Aug 8th, 2022 - The epidemic of child abuse in the U.S. (>670,000 confirmed annually) causes massive harm to children and the adults they become. Surprisingly, <1% of these substantiated cases of child abuse are identified and reported by early childhood professi...

Aug 8th, 2022 - Despite their daily interactions with young children, little research has been conducted into early childhood professionals' (ECPs') knowledge of, and attitudes towards, reporting of child abuse/neglect. This study: Evaluates the effectiveness of ...

Jul 29th, 2022 - Problematic Internet and smartphone use are a psychosocial phenomenon in which individuals pay too much attention to and rely on the Internet, negatively affecting their mental and physical health, lives, and work. Many studies have shown that pro...

Jul 19th, 2022 - This 5-year study will evaluate the efficacy of an innovative educational intervention, iLook Out for Child Abuse (iLookOut) for increasing rates of accurate child abuse reporting. Grounded in an Experiential Learning conceptual model, iLookOut is...

May 23rd, 2022 - NEW ORLEANS – The patient, a 60-year-old woman who'd just tried to kill herself by overdosing on gabapentin, felt the need to make a confession. As she told a resident psychiatrist late one night at a Philadelphia crisis response center, she'd jus...

Mar 14th, 2022 - (Reuters) - A Texas judge on Friday will consider a request she block state investigations of parents who get gender-transitioning care for their children that Governor Greg Abbott calls "child abuse." The Austin hearing is part of a pushback agai...

Mar 14th, 2022 - (Reuters) - Child abuse inspectors in Texas were told they had to investigate parents who put their transgender children through gender-affirming procedures, even if they did not think abuse had occurred, a child protective services supervisor tes...

Mar 11th, 2022 - Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Two years ago today, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. COVID has retreated in the U.S. to the degree that 98% of the population l...

Feb 27th, 2022 - Several medical organizations, including the Endocrine Society, are condemning the recent order by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) directing the state's Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate instances of sex-change procedures in c...