Childhood adversity and developmental effects : international and cross-disciplinary perspectives /
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Oakville, ON, Canada ; Waretown, NJ, USA :
Apple Academic Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgment and How to Cite
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: International problem
- Acts of omission: an overview of child neglect / Child Welfare Information Gateway, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau
- Frequency of child maltreatment in a representative sample of the German population / Benjamin Iffland ... [and four others]
- Setting the stage for chronic health problems: cumulative childhood adversity among homeless adults with mental illness in Vancouver, British Columbia / Michelle L. Patterson, Akm Moniruzzaman, and Julian M. Somers
- Emotional abuse towards children by schoolteachers in Aden Governorate, Yemen: a cross-sectional study / Amal S.S. Ba-Saddik and Abdullah S. Hattab
- Child neglect in one-child families from Suzhou City of Mainland China / Jina Hua ... [and five others]
- Part II: Children and war
- Transgenerational consequences of PTSD: risk factors for the mental health of children whose mothers have been exposed to the Rwandan genocide / Maria Roth, Frank Neuner, and Thomas Elbert
- Intergenerational effects of war on the health of children / Delan Devakumar ... [and four others]
- Part III: Developmental impact on mental and physical health
- Childhood adversity, recent life stressors and suicidal behavior in Chinese college students / Zhiqi You ... [and four others]
- Childhood sexual abuse and the development of recurrent major depression in Chinese women / Jing Chen ... [and 63 others]
- Differences in the association between childhood trauma and BMI in black and white South African women / J.H. Goedecke, J. Forbes, and D.J. Stein
- Childhood trauma and PTSD symptoms increase the risk of cognitive impairment in a sample of former indentured child laborers in old age / Andrea Burri, Andreas Maercker, Sandy Krammer, and Keti Simmen-Janevska
- Adverse childhood experiences, psychosocial well-being and cognitive development among orphans and abandoned children in five low income countries / Maya Escueta ... [and four others]
- Part IV: Hope for the future
- School-based mental health intervention for children in war-affected Burundi: a cluster randomized trial / Wietse A. Tol ... [and eight others]
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children affected by sexual abuse or trauma / Child Welfare Information Gateway, Children's Bureau
- Author Notes.