Journal of interpersonal violence, 2011-03, Vol.26 (5), p.1056-1076
2011
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Is Disclosure Therapeutic for Children Following Exposure to Traumatic Violence?
- Ist Teil von
- Journal of interpersonal violence, 2011-03, Vol.26 (5), p.1056-1076
- Ort / Verlag
- Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
- Quelle
- ERIC
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Trauma theory suggests that to recover from exposure to traumatic events, such as exposure to violence, therapeutic interventions should include opportunities to disclose and to process the fearful and stressful events. Yet little is known about the circumstances that foster disclosure of such information in therapeutic environments by children and related mental health outcomes for those children. In this study, the process of disclosure was examined among children ages 6 to 12 years (N = 121) in a community-based intervention program for children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV). Therapists documented children’s spontaneous disclosure in their group. Mothers and children completed demographic and standardized attitudinal and mental health questionnaires. Fifty-two percent of children spontaneously disclosed during therapy. Child ethnicity, harm to the child, internalizing behavioral adjustment problems, and engagement in therapy predicted disclosure. Disclosure within the group was associated with gains for individual children in internalizing behavioral adjustment problems and improvement in attitudes and beliefs concerning the acceptability of violence.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0886-2605eISSN: 1552-6518DOI: 10.1177/0886260510365855Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_862780570
- Format
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- Schlagworte
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adjustment, Adolescent, Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Behavior Problems, Behavior Therapy - methods, Child, Child Abuse, Child Behavior - psychology, Child of Impaired Parents - psychology, Children, Children & youth, Coping, Demographics, Domestic violence, Family Violence, Female, Foster Children, Group Counseling, Humans, Internal-External Control, Intervention, Male, Mental Health, Mental health care, Mothers, Parent-Child Relations, Preadolescents, Psychotherapy, Questionnaires, Racial Differences, Resistance (Psychology), Self Disclosure, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Spouse Abuse - psychology, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - rehabilitation, Stress Management, Therapy, Trauma, Treatment Outcome, Treatment Outcomes, Truth Disclosure, Violence