Article Review – “depressive Symptoms and Suicidality in Physically Abused Children”Essay Preview: Article Review – “depressive Symptoms and Suicidality in Physically Abused Children”Report this essay“Writing the Report of the Research Article”ARTICLE “Depressive Symptoms and Suicidality in Physically Abused Children.”This Article has been published by American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 71 (1) on January 2001. The researchers are Ricky Finzi, PH.D., Anca Ram, M.D., Dan Shnit, PH.D., Dov Har-Evan, M.A., Sam Tyano, M.D., and Abraham Weizman, M.D. This Psychological research is from pages 98 – 107. The main idea of the research was to find out the depressive and suicidal potential among three categories of children first one who were physically abused, second who were neglected by their parents and third who were neither neglected nor abused.
The sample of 114 children aged 6 – 12 years were studied by dividing them into three groups on the basis of ill-treatment: group 1 (the study group) consisted of 41 physically abused children; group 2 (first control group) consisted of 38 children neglected; group 3 (second control group) consisted of 35 children who were neither abused nor neglected. The sample contained more boys (61.4%) than girls (38.6). The research was conducted in the central urban area of Israel. The questionnaires were completed in one hour but the processing of the data took two months.
The measure or the procedure for the following study was described in the article in two portions.Child Depression: It consists of 27 items, each describes three levels of depressive symptomatology, from which one is select which best characterizes them. From the article we observe that “Kovacs and Beck (1977) have claimed that the CDI probes emotional, cognitive, motivational, vegetative and behavioral dimensions.” There was another way of evaluation was made according to the article which was Cronbachs Alpha and item total correlations which showed the value for the 27 CDI items (α = 80), and for cognitive (α = 70) and behavioral (α = 69). The lower values were obtained for the social (α = 61), emotional (α = 55) and vegetative (α = 49) subscales. The groups were compared by finding the mean. The scores ranged from 0 to 20 scales. Higher scores show more severe depression.
Child Abuse and Behavior: The researchers made an interview with a series of yes and no questions which evaluates assaultive, destructive and suicidal behavior by observing present and past effects, aggression and antisocialism among children with comparison of family background, death concept, ego functions and defense mechanisms. Subscale item are either 0 or 1, or 0-2. The higher scores mean severe types of behavior disorder. Suicidality had three symptoms: suicidal behavior (verbalized suicidal ideation, threats or act), suicidal expression (ways selected by individuals), risk taking behavior (example climbing high places or drinking toxic solutions). There were series of questions been asked
Descriptive Behavior Model – The models were made of a number of variables, such as how quickly a child would respond emotionally to the presence of an assailant, response to a physical threat to the perpetrator and the emotional response to being verbally threatened. As an independent analysis, they were conducted on the total number of variables and total score.
Child Abuse and Behavior – These three metrics were scored separately. Questionnaires for the self-reported measures of child abuse and victimization (i.e., self, family background/ego, suicide, emotional response to physical threats and suicide) were conducted separately with a control group, one with a parent in the child’s care at the time of the report of abuse and, while the child was at home/cohabitating and at an age when the report was made, the individual was at school or an alternative job and at the time of the report of abuse. No child abuse/victimization in the child’s care was recorded, and reports about child abuse/victimization were not recorded on a regular basis (see for examples
Suicide Injuries
Boys: The statistics on suicide and child victimization are not consistent
Subclinical, not well understood
Psychiatric illness: There are no established medical treatments for adolescent mental health disorder, despite the availability of psychotropic medications. In addition to the lack of treatment options for adolescents with psychiatric problems (e.g., depression and anxiety), treatment consists of medication of various kinds as well as medication given orally or as part of a supportive and family interaction with a caregiver on a regular basis. The data from the study can be used to assess whether medications are effective in treating these disorders, such as psychotherapy. As indicated in the results, there were 15,000 and 20,000 adults participating in the program, of whom 55% performed a completed interview, and 1,062 completed psychopharmacological training.
Child Sexual Abuse and Victimization
Males: Boys (14–17 years of age) were less likely than females of the same age group to report having experienced sexual contact with a child, but females who had experienced sexually violent or other sexual contact reported less sexual violence than females of the same age category (Table 1). It is possible that females who had experience of sexual assault might also have experienced sexual abuse and that they might have been more likely of sexual partner to report experiencing sexual violence (see for examples)
Sexual Violence and Violent Behaviors – By age and sex, sexual violence victimization is also more likely in boys (<20 years) than in girls (<20 years). A very few children described their sexual assaults as aggressive by their mother. One large study in the 1980