Abusive histories in youth/young adult students

✍ Scribed by Elaine King Miller; Kimball Austin Miller

• Book ID: 104633574
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 402 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-0653
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00129410

✦ Synopsis

A survey of a college student population indicates that psysical abuse is prevalent in our society. The self-reported data was found to be similar to that occurring in the literature on parent-reported child abuse, documenting that approximately one-third of college students had a history of moderate abuse and 5 to 10 percent had a history of a severe abuse during their developmental years. Through an awareness of its high prevalence, the health care provider will question a history of physical violence when evaluating a student with a medical or psychosocial complaint and appropriately plan a management program inclusive of therapeutic counseling to decrease the effect of the prior or current physical abuse.