CFD 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Narcotics Anonymous, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Domestic Violence

• School: UCM
• Department: Child and Family Development
• Course: CFD 3240
• Professor: Chancler

Document Summary

Many adolescents maltreated by parents go directly into foster care: many others spend time in group care before being placed in foster families. Ways of assisting youth in transition from group care to foster care: visits between youth and prospective caregivers, providing foster parents with adequate information, support from agency staff. Millions of children exposed to intimate partner violence: most common is spousal abuse. Both batterer & victim likely to be young. The abuser also is likely to be a substance abuser. Parental unemployment (especially fathers) is frequently linked to interparental violence. The impact of interparental violence on children"s development. The dynamics in families where a parent is an alcoholic include: disrupted family routines and rituals, compromised parenting behaviors, a heightened risk for harsh punishment, a greater likelihood of child maltreatment and/or inter-parental violence. Compromised parenting behaviors of parents who are alcoholics. A greater likelihood to use harsh punishment. A higher tolerance for adolescent substance abuse.