The Role Of Supportive Relationships Of The Maternal Caregiver, And Community Violence

To begin with, I will be conducting an interview on a caregiver that is currently providing services to a close family member. Through the duration of this assignment, the participating caregiver will be identified as Bridget for confidentiality purposes. The location of the interview will be a home-based visit in Fort Worth, Texas. Parallel to this, I will be asking a sequence of questions – a methodical biopsychosocial assessment – to the caregiver participant to acquire knowledge/understanding of what it means to be a caregiver. On the same note, after reviewing the standardized measurements from the Gaugler article, I subjectively selected the Caregiver Hassle Scale (CHS), which will be implemented during the interview. Moreover, in regards

According to the above literature and the fact on the ground domestic violence physically, psychologically and socially affects women, men and their families. In addition, the abuse usually is an attempt by one partner to exert control through pressure, fear, verbal abuse or threats of violence. Therefore, the family system concepts theory “understanding the significance of the environmental context of the family system is the key to assessing family process and outcomes” Thomlison, 2010, p. 45). The family system “concept 1 theory is the family as a system is greater than the sum of its individual system (Thomlison, 2010, p. 46). In addition, this theory is very helpful on identity the impact of the domestic violence on the family because the issues are related to one another any change in one part will affect the others (Thomlison, 2010, p. 46). According to this concept, a practitioner can clearly visualize children growing up in violent homes do not need to be physically abused to take on violent and delinquent behavior it is enough to witness their mother’s or father’s abuse. For instance, if a practitioner is dealing with a teenager who is struggling lose the ability to feel empathy for others, feel socially isolated, unable to make friends as easily due to social discomfort or confusion over what is acceptable. The practitioner if he uses concept 1 can assist and understand the cause of teenage behavior during intervention if he understands the family as a whole”

Caregivers provide cooking, ironing, housekeeping, shopping and errands, accompany to doctor visit and all the necessary requirements for the person in care. Since being in their own homes, provide the customary serenity and comforts, as they prefer the familiar comfort zone, these patients, continue to thrive easily, as they are no movement adjustments, new unfamiliar surroundings, old friends and relationships remain the same, no new peer friendship issues affect them, no set schedules, no time constraints, no commuting, and caregivers can be one or two in number, so familiarity is faster and relationships are more easily developed. However relationships can be quite strong since contact is more one on one and the usual emotions of loss can be experience, if there is a change in caregiver, but the impact may be less severe, since it may be on a less frequent basis and they are in their usual

It has been noted the vital role that mothers play in a child’s healthy development. Therefore if mothers are abused research done by Sandra A. Graham-Bermann, Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Family Violence Research Program, has shown that “Children who were exposed to parental violence had many more behavioral problems, exhibited significantly more negative affect, responded less appropriately to situations, were more aggressive with peers, and had more ambivalent relationships with their caregivers than those from nonviolent families.” (Graham-Bermann, S. A., & Levendosky, A. A., 1998). Another factor that can play a negative role in a child’s development is that parents may hold unreasonable expectations from their children due to how they themselves were brought up. Seymour Rosenberg a head of the department of Psychology at The State University of New Jersey helped their study come to the conclusion that “It has also been shown that abusive parents often have unrealistic expectations for their children-expectations based on distorted perceptions of their children's needs, feelings, and abilities” (Herzog, E. P., Gara, M. A., & Rosenberg, S., 1992). Due to this it can cause the child to grow up confused and scared which may lead them to use the same maltreatment towards their kids which will only further the intergenerational abuse. However, Research has also shown that

This section describes the overall design, specific data collection and analysis methods linked to the evaluation questions, and limitations of the data, methods, or other issues that affected the findings.

Analyze the scientific merit of the selected design. How might you have designed this study differently?

The three independent variables that were used in this study to determine the outcome (intellectual functioning) were: domestic violence, maternal depression, and home environment (Huth-Bocks, et al., 2001). The Severity of Violence Against Women Scales measured domestic violence from 0 to 3 (never, once, a few times, many times). The Beck Depression Inventory was used to measure the severity of maternal depression that women experienced due to the domestic violence. The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment was used to measure the quality of the home environment. Finally, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—Revised (PPVT-R) was used to measure children’s receptive vocabulary along with the Block Design subtest of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence—Revised

The goal of this research Profiles of Behavioral Problems in Children Who Witness Domestic Violence was to study about how young child to cope with the impact of witnessing domestic violence. Unlike the pervious study that have used shelter-based samples, their study studied a sample of 175 school-aged children who exposed to domestic violence in a community program and it examined the problems in profiles of adjustment (Spilsbury & Kahana & Drotar, 2008). All the participant was recruited from the Children Who Witness Violence Program (CWWVP) who were receiving services from this program. They were then asked if they want to participate in a study of studying the outcome of this program and all of them agreed. Total of 1019 children who have the experience of witnessing domestic violence and they’re between the

What is the sample used in the study and what type of sampling design was used to obtain it?

Data and detailed information about cases of domestic violence can be only obtained by inviting people to participate in survey. The participants for the survey should include victims, accused, and witnesses in form of child, neighbours, colleagues and general public. Victims help in answering many questions like reason for domestic violence, whether it is influenced by alcohol or is hereditary, the extent of physical injury, mental trauma suffered and how it affected their lives. The participants take part in survey and help in finding out the percentage of domestic violence cases in a particular area. Every case of domestic violence is different and in some cases it leads to extreme incidents

In the article, Family Management, and Youth Violence: Are Parent or Community More Salient?, Maria Joao Lobo from Westat and Eileen M. Ahlin from Penn State Harrisburg studies four family management strategies and community influence on youth. The four family management strategies are supervision, discipline, restrictiveness, and familiarity with child’s peers. The data is collected on three cohorts of youths ages 9 to 19 from the PHDCN, and the data is analyzed by using HLM. The results are harsh disciplining practices increase violence by 33%. In the community youth who was unsupervised show a decrease of violent behavior by 40%. Also, the youth violence is influenced by family management than community influences. The article supports my

This population yielded results from a sample of 177 caregivers and 157 children. Of this sample, about 83% were female and about 16% were male. In respect to the caregivers, nearly half had a college degree and most were from Australia. Additionally, about a quarter of these caregivers reported having another cultural background other than Australian. Such reported backgrounds included American, Australian, Filipino, Chinese, British, Japanese, Iraqi, Irish, Japanese, and Vietnamese.

This study uses the quantitative method. The Parenting Questionnaire is a 42-item measure that requires caregivers to respond on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (Never) to 5 (Always), about the frequency of use of various parenting techniques (Davis, et al., 2005). The measure yields five parenting scales, all shown to be important variables in child outcomes: Parental Involvement, Positive Parenting, Poor Parental Monitoring, Inconsistent Discipline, and Corporal Punishment. See Appendix ((C)) for the specific items in this measure. The Parenting Questionnaire has demonstrated good construct validity (Shelton et al., 1996). It has also been found to be reliable, with adequate internal consistency (alphas ranging from .67 to .80, except Corporal Punishment, .46) and adequate

After deciding on a topic related to family violence that is approved by the instructor you will produce 5-6 page research paper (exclusive of notes) that will address the following:

“A Research Design is the arrangement of conditions for collection and analysis of data in a manner that aims to combine relevance to the research purpose with economy in procedure”.