Citation

Barber CC, Colson DB, McParland MQ, O'Malley F, Pope KK, Coyne L. Child Psychiatry Hum. Dev. 1994; 25(1): 53-64.

Affiliation

Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas 66601.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7805436

Abstract

This study examined the associations between abuse and staff perceived treatment difficulty in sixty-nine hospitalized children and adolescents. Subjects were rated on a treatment difficulty scale, and clinical charts were reviewed for evidence of physical abuse, sexual abuse, abuse between parents, and parental history of abuse. Subjects with histories of abuse were not rated as more difficult or less responsive to treatment than other patients. Physically abused youngsters were rated as more self-destructive and more accessible to treatment than non-abused children, while sexually abused youngsters were self-destructive and demanding, and their families were seen as more distant and unavailable.

Language: en