Children and Violence

Paper Summary:

This paper hypothesizes that medical professionals, specifically nurses, must understand that the lives and future lives of African-American children are impacted when they witness violence. The author points out that the literature review does indicate that children witnessing family abuse are negatively impacted in many areas of both cognition and emotional regulation and that these children generally are depressed and joyless. The paper relates that this study demonstrated that an overwhelming number of African-American children witness family and community violence and that more than two-thirds of African-American children are not assessed for family violence trauma and go untreated.

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Objective
Hypothesis
Literature Review
Summary and Conclusion

From the Paper:

"...is a case study and discussion of a child whose mother was shot and killed while the child was nineteen months of age by the child's father who killed himself two weeks later. The child was noted as having separation anxiety and timidity or reluctance to discuss either of her parents. Further the child believed that someone was going to 'get her'. It was revealed in the study that the child did in actuality remember the traumatic event due to her extreme reaction to the sight of blood and particularly her grandmother's red coat. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Dalpaiz, C.M. (2006) Breaking Free, Starting Over: Parenting in the Aftermath of Family Violence. Family Therapy Journal Vol. 33 Issue 1 San Diego 2006.
• Henry, M.; Szajnberg, N. (2006) My Life is a Longing: Child Abuse and its Adult Sequelae: Results of Brody Longitudinal Study from Birth to age 30" International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 87, Issue 2.
• Hurley (2006) Internalized Other Interviewing of Children Exposed to Violence. Journal of Systematic Therapies. Summer 2006. Vol. 25. Guilford Publications, Inc.
• Kaplow, J.B.; Saxe, G.N.; Putman, F.W.; Pynoos, R.S.; and Lieberman, A.F. (2006) The Long-Term Consequences of Early Childhood Trauma. A Case Study and Discussion. Psychiatry. New York Winter 2006. Vol. 69. Issue 4.
• McDowell, B.M. (2006) Caring for Child Victims: Countering the Effects of Domestic Violence. Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing. 2006. Vol. 11, Issue 2.

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