Child Abuse Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Child Abuse, including details on family violence, examinations, long-term effects, psychiatrics disorders.

Volume 2 (2006), Issue 8 (August)

1. The adverse effect of negative comments about weight and shape from family and siblings on women at high risk for eating disorders.
   Pediatrics, 118(2): 731-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Comparison of accidental and nonaccidental traumatic head injury in children on noncontrast computed tomography.
   Pediatrics, 118(2): 626-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Biochemical screening of type I collagen in osteogenesis imperfecta: detection of glycine substitutions in the amino end of the alpha chains requires supplementation by molecular analysis.
   J Med Genet, 43(8): 685-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Childhood sexual abuse and sexual risk behavior among men and women attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic.
   J Consult Clin Psychol, 74(4): 720-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Child sexual abuse and its outcomes among high school students in southwest Ethiopia.
   Trop Doct, 36(3): 137-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and dissociative disorder among abused children.
   Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 60(4): 434-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Women and reproductive-related trauma.
   Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1071: 491-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Alexithymia in PTSD: psychometric and FMRI studies.
   Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1071: 397-400. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Neurobiological consequences of early stress and childhood maltreatment: are results from human and animal studies comparable?
   Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1071: 313-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Developmental epidemiology of PTSD: self-regulation as a central mechanism.
    Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1071: 255-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Immune function in PTSD.
    Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1071: 167-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Subtypes of illicit drug users: a latent class analysis of data from an Australian twin sample.
    Twin Res Hum Genet, 9(4): 523-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Which radiological investigations should be performed to identify fractures in suspected child abuse?
    Clin Radiol, 61(9): 723-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. The influence of child abuse on the pattern of expenditures in women's adult health service utilization in Ontario, Canada.
    Soc Sci Med, 63(7): 1711-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Violent sex offenses: how are they best measured from official records?
    Law Hum Behav, 30(4): 525-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Delayed prosecutions of historic child sexual abuse: analyses of 2064 Canadian criminal complaints.
    Law Hum Behav, 30(4): 409-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. From emotional abuse in childhood to psychopathology in adulthood: a path mediated by immature defense mechanisms and self-esteem.
    J Nerv Ment Dis, 194(8): 616-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Violence and abuse among HIV-infected women and their children in Zambia: a qualitative study.
    J Nerv Ment Dis, 194(8): 610-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Cutaneous manifestations of child abuse.
    Pediatr Dermatol, 23(4): 311-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Heroin use among youths incarcerated for illicit drug use: psychosocial environment, substance use history, psychiatric comorbidity, and route of administration.
    Am J Addict, 15(3): 233-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Risk factors for recurrence of maltreatment: a systematic review.
    Arch Dis Child, 91(9): 744-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Improving child protection: a systematic review of training and procedural interventions.
    Arch Dis Child, 91(9): 740-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Behavioral alterations in reward system function: the role of childhood maltreatment and psychopathology.
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 45(9): 1059-67. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Role of parenting and maltreatment histories in unipolar and bipolar mood disorders: mediation by cognitive vulnerability to depression.
    Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev, 9(1): 23-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Epidemiology and mechanisms of femur fractures in children.
    J Pediatr Orthop, 26(5): 561-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Sexually transmitted diseases in sexually abused girls and adolescents.
    Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol, 18(5): 492-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Children's non-accidental injuries at an accident and emergency department: Does the age of the child and the type of injury matter?
    Accid Emerg Nurs, 14(3): 155-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Creating and field-testing diagnostic criteria for partner and child maltreatment.
    J Fam Psychol, 20(3): 397-408. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Heme oxygenase 1 in cerebrospinal fluid from infants and children after severe traumatic brain injury.
    Dev Neurosci, 28(4): 342-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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