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Question 1

act of omission

Answer 1

failure to meet child needs

eg. neglect/ deny access to education

Question 2

act of commission

Answer 2

actively doing something harmful

eg. abuse child/ letting child witness violence

Question 3

comorbidity of abuse

how many % children exposed to more than 1 form of abuse?

Answer 3

50% children exposed to more than 1 form of abuse/neglect

Question 4

prospective research method

Answer 4

watches the development of a disorder over the study period and relates this to risk/ protective factors of the disorder

follow people who have the disorder now

Question 5

retrospective research method

Answer 5

look back in time and examine exposure to risk/ protective factors to a certain disease

“what happened to you?”

Question 6

advantages and disadvantages of prospective research

Answer 6

+ objective identificaiton of abuse
+no recall bias
+ temporal order of the abuse and its consequences

• selective inclusion
• duration and cost
• drop out

= best when combined w prospective method

Question 7

advantages and disadvantages of retrospective research

Answer 7

+ practical in cases of long-term consequences (in adults)

• relies on memory
  -potential recall bias
  (if depressed then recall things worse than they are)

= best when combined w prospective method

Question 8

2 types of observational methods to study child abuse

Answer 8

observational:

• self- reports
• parent reports
• report by professionals

experimental:
acute stress in animal studies