PSY 005 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Multisystemic Therapy
23 Dec 2020
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Children who grow up in a violent family not only witness aggression; they often bear the brunt of it. Tragically, child abuse is not a rare occurrence. A 1998 study estimated that more than 135 000 canadian children had been abused. In 2006, there were 60 murders of children across canada; 36 children were killed by a family member. Like partner aggression, child abuse stems from multiple factors. The cycle of family violence pattern: the connection between violence in childhood and violence as an adult. This connection is called the cycle of family violence. Children who witness parental violence or who are themselves abused are more likely as adults to inflict abuse on intimate partners or their children, or, perhaps, to be victims of intimate violence. This intergenerational transmission of domestic violence is by no means inevitable: most people who witness or experience abuse in their families of origin are not abusive or abused in their families of procreation.
