Chapter 6 Flashcards
Historic view of adolescent behavior
criminal, needing physical discipline and incarceration
How adolescents are different from children
Strength, cognition, and sexual interest
How adolescents are different from adults
Time of transition, maturity, different circumstances
Historic view of physical abuse
Stern discipline or punishment
Why agencies pay scant attention to parental abuse of adolescents
Societal perceptions that behavior makes them complicit in abuse. Legitimate attempts to maintain control. Less physically vulnerable
DHHS types of child maltreatment
MN PPP S (Minnesota point-to-point protocol sucks)
Medical neglect, Neglect/deprivation, Physical Abuse, Psych abuse, sexual abuse, polyvictim
Problems measuring effects of maltreatment on adolescence
Identity of informant, timing of abuse
Maltreatment in only late childhood
2x odds delinquency in early adolescence
Maltreatment only during adolescence
4x delinquency in early adolescence, 3x delinquency in late adolescence
Maltreatment during childhood and adolescence
Increased delinquency odds during late adolescence, NOT early adolescence
Most prevalent forms of adolescent abuse
Physical then psychological, then medical then neglect.
Psychiatric disorders CPA victims are at increased risk for
depression, disruptive behavior, drug abuse
Predictors of trauma symptomatology
polyvictimization, and either sexual assault by a known perpetrator or emotional bullying
Predictors of higher psychopathology at age 24
low SES, delinquent friends, heightened physical punishment
Genetic mediators for effects of parental psychopathology
Disinhibition and negative affectivity (BPD features)
Gender difference in effects of adol abuse
Girls behavior is more adversely effected by abuse than boys even though boys base rate of violence is higher
Common contexts of sexual assaults
Within an intimate relationship, at parties/social gathering
Common relationships to offenders of sexual assualts
friend/acquaintance, partner/ex-partner
Differences between adolescent and adult assault
Adolescents more likely to have been assaulted after/at party, less likely than adults to have had consensual sex previously, less likely to have been assaulted after going to a bar, and tended to have been assaulted by a current partner.
Characteristics of the home of teen mothers
Interparental violence, physical/sexual violence, poverty, low educational attainment of parents, low school achievement by children.
Country with most teenage pregnancies in the industrialized world
the United States
Problems for teen mothers
Born prematurely, low birth wright, higher mortality, dropping out of school, remaining a single parent.
Race/ethnic status of teen mothers
Hispanics, Blacks, Whites…