Stronger Connections: Family Stress, Violence and Mental Health

The role of parenting stress in young children's mental health functioning after exposure to family violence.

This study evaluates the associations of young children's exposure to family violence events, parenting stress, and children's mental health functioning. Caregivers provided data for 188 children ages 3 to 5 years attending Head Start programming. Caregivers reported 75% of children had experienced at least 1 type of trauma event, and 27% of children had experienced a family violence event. Chi...

The Comparison of Adaptability and Domestic Violence Among Family With Chornic and Mental Illness

The purpose of this study was to determine the rate difference of adaptability and domestic violence in families with children with mental illness chronic and regular in Borujen City. The statistic population of the study included all families with children who have chronic mental illness admitted to daycare centers (girls and boys) in Borujen City including 180 people that among them 30 girls ...

Domestic violence and its mental health correlates Domestic violence and its mental health correlates

Making connections across silos: intimate partner violence, mental health, and substance use

BACKGROUND Untold numbers of women worldwide are survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) with a substantial number of these experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use problems. Despite the complex interconnections among these problems, funding mechanisms and organizational structures and mandates have been designed to address just a single, focal problem. One of the challeng...

www.ssoar.info Parental violence and adolescent mental health

Being the target of parental violent acts decreases child adjustment and increases the likelihood of mental health problems in childhood and adolescence. Our study analyzes how different types of parental violence ranging from verbal threats and swearing to hitting and kicking a child, are associated with child adjustment, indicated by SDQ total problem score, internalizing and externalizing pr...