CYC 802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Animal-Assisted Therapy, Old Ways, Neuroplasticity

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Child and Youth Care
• Course: CYC 802
• Professor: Anne Black

Document Summary

Child witness to violence project is a counselling, advocacy and outreach project that started in 1992, focusing on young children who are the hidden victims of domestic and community violence, and other trauma-related events. Children may be exposed to violence in the media, their homes, their neighborhoods. Media violence: most common source of exposure to violence for children, includes. Tv/movies/video and computer games: 99% of homes in the us have a television, translated into the average child witnessing 12,000 acts of violence on tv every year. Domestic violence: violence between adult partners in the home, 20% of adult women in the us, equal opportunity phenomenon meaning it occurs in rural and urban areas, without regard to class/culture/sexual orientation. Family violence: in 2014, 131 canadians died at the hands on a family member, 133,920 victims of family violence, majority of victims are women, 800,000 children exposed to domestic/family violence.