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OBJECTIVE: One aspect of treatment for child abuse and neglect addresses the attributions that the child victim, offender, nonoffending parents, and other family members have about the occurrence of the maltreatment. This paper describes a formal approach for abuse clarification to be used with families in which maltreatment has occurred. The four primary components of the abuse clarification process are: (a) clarification of the abusive behaviors; (b) offender assumption of responsibility for the abuse; (c) offender expression of awareness of the impact of the abuse on the child victim and family; and, (d) initiation of a plan to ensure future safety. The process of abuse clarification is described and suggestions made for appropriate use of the procedure.
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Child Abuse, Sexual/legislation & jurisprudence , Child Abuse/legislation & jurisprudence , Adolescent , Child , Child Abuse/psychology , Child Abuse/rehabilitation , Child Abuse, Sexual/psychology , Child Abuse, Sexual/rehabilitation , Child Welfare/legislation & jurisprudence , Communication , Denial, Psychological , Family Relations , Family Therapy , Female , Humans , Incest/legislation & jurisprudence , Incest/psychology , Male , Psychotherapy, Group , Social ResponsibilityABSTRACT
In a sample of 65 child and adolescent psychiatric inpatients, the hypothesized relation between the Egocentricity Index from the Rorschach and standard self-report measures of self-concept was not supported. Although the sample as a group had a markedly low mean Egocentricity Index, self-reported self-concept was at a normative level. The validity of the Egocentricity Index and self-report measures of self-concept is discussed, and guidelines for their interpretation are presented.
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Ego , Personality Inventory/standards , Rorschach Test/standards , Self Concept , Adolescent , Child , Humans , Mental Disorders/psychology , Reference Values , Regression Analysis , Reproducibility of ResultsABSTRACT
This study is a multimethod assessment of depressive features in a sample of 60 adolescent inpatients. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between self-report measures of depression and Rorschach variables commonly associated with depression. Patients represented a variety of diagnostic categories in order to determine whether information gathered through assessment instruments was related to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd ed. [DSM-III], American Psychiatric Association, 1980) diagnoses of depression. Findings indicated that this sample of adolescents was highly defensive and emotionally constricted. There were several significant relationships between self-report measures and Rorschach indicators of depression. However, in general, the Rorschach variables were not strongly related to depression. The self-report measures were more accurate than Rorschach variables in discriminating between depressed and nondepressed subjects.
