TY - JOUR
T1 - Community violence exposure and associated behavior problems among children and adolescents in residential treatment
AU - Guterman, Neil B.
AU - Cameron, Mark
AU - Hahm, Hyeouk C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Center for the Study of Social Work Practice, a joint program of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services and the Columbia University School of Social Work. It represents an outgrowth of activities associated with the Odyssey Project, a national study of children in residential treatment, group homes, and therapeutic foster care, coordinated by the Child Welfare League of America. Support was also provided to the third author by Council on Social Work Education NIMH Minority Research Fellowship Program (# 3-T32-MH-16089-20SI).
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Community violence exposure is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in the presenting behavioral profiles of children and adolescents, although little is known about the specific role played among children and adolescents served in mental health settings. This cross-sectional study reports findings on the lifetime rates of community violence exposure in a sample of 101 children and adolescents living in residential treatment, and the associations between such exposure and their presenting behavior problems. A total of 41% of the study participants reported they had been severely physically victimized, and 80% stated they had witnessed severe physical victimization. After controlling for background variables, hierarchical regression analyses indicated that sexual victimization and, to a lesser degree, personal physical victimization selectively predicted greater behavior problems, whereas witnessed physical violence predicted fewer behavior problems overall. These findings highlight a need to conduct multidimensional assessments of violence exposure among children and adolescents in residential and other mental health settings.
AB - Community violence exposure is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in the presenting behavioral profiles of children and adolescents, although little is known about the specific role played among children and adolescents served in mental health settings. This cross-sectional study reports findings on the lifetime rates of community violence exposure in a sample of 101 children and adolescents living in residential treatment, and the associations between such exposure and their presenting behavior problems. A total of 41% of the study participants reported they had been severely physically victimized, and 80% stated they had witnessed severe physical victimization. After controlling for background variables, hierarchical regression analyses indicated that sexual victimization and, to a lesser degree, personal physical victimization selectively predicted greater behavior problems, whereas witnessed physical violence predicted fewer behavior problems overall. These findings highlight a need to conduct multidimensional assessments of violence exposure among children and adolescents in residential and other mental health settings.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Children
KW - Community violence
KW - Residential treatment
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U2 - 10.1300/J146v06n02_06
DO - 10.1300/J146v06n02_06
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037501353
VL - 6
SP - 111
EP - 135
JO - Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma
JF - Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma
SN - 1092-6771
IS - 2
ER -