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E Elmer

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PubMed1992

Battered children grown up: a follow-up study of individuals severely maltreated as children.

Despite intensive research interest, the field of child abuse has produced few long-term follow-up studies. This paper describes the adult functioning of a group of 19 individuals who were severely battered as young children. Results indicate highly variable outcomes for the group: Some individuals exhibited limited autonomy and few adult coping skills while others were raising families, holding jobs, and maintaining functional social ties. There was little evidence of overt aggression in the group but resentment and suspiciousness scores were high. Many subjects maintained ties with their troubled parents while others sought out birth parents after losing contact with them in childhood. Several had developed long-term stable marriages, and social supports appeared adequate for most subjects in the group. Overall, study findings indicate that early abusive trauma and adult functioning have no simple relationship.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1978

Child abuse training: a community-based interdisciplinary program.

In the area of child abuse, a scarce resource is trained personnel. This paper describes a training program focusing on the need for individuals representing diverse disciplines to work together. Subjects discussed are the rationale and the organization process for a multidisciplinary, community-based training program; the formulation of the educational experience and the curriculum; evaluation measures; and the implementation of the program in a typical site. Various activities related to child abuse have been initiated in communities where training has occurred. Plans are to provide more intensive training in the treatment area for those professionals trained so far.

Child↗
PubMed1977

A follow-up study of traumatized children.

This study compared 17 abused children with 17 children who had been in accidents, matched for age, race, sex, and socioeconomic status, eight years after all had been studied as infants. Each traumatized group was also compared with a matched untraumatized group with no known history of abuse or infantile accident. The majority of all children were lower-class. Hypotheses were that the abused children would fall below the nonabused in health history and physical development, intellectual functioning, language, and self-concept; and that the abused children would score higher in impulsivity and aggression. Clinical assessments revealed few group differences. The surprising finding was the extent of various problems across the entire sample. Seventy percent of the children had speech problems; over 50% showed some degree of disturbance; and 39% were achieving poorly in school. However, these disabilities were distributed randomly among abuse, accident, and comparison children. Most of the children appeared sad and fearful of personal attack by adults or other children. Many mothers' reports indicated that the families, whether abuse, accident, or comparison, experienced constant violence, both environmental and personal. It was concluded that the effects on child development of lower-class membership may be as powerful as abuse.

Accidents, Home↗
PubMed1975

Reflectometry and micromorphology of polished, etched and repolished teeth.

Labial enamel surfaces of anterior teeth were polished, etched for thirty seconds with acid and then repolished by manual brushing with three different abrasive pastes for 10, 15, 15, 20, and 20 seconds respectively and finally for a 60-sec brushing with a dental engine. Before etching and following each paste treatment, the light reflection of the surfaces was measured with the scanning tooth surface reflectometer of GABATHULER. The reflectance values were compared with the microscopic tooth surface texture. Reflectometric findings were similar under in vitro and in vivo conditions. There were differences among the pastes in restoring maximum lustre of dull etched enamel, but not in polishing intact tooth surfaces.

Adult↗