Essay - Cycle of Violence with Children: Impact of Trauma from Witnessing...

Cycle of Violence with Children: Impact of Trauma from Witnessing Family Violence

Objective

***** objective of this work is to conduct a thorough liter*****ture review of the cycle of violence with children.

Hypothesis

***** hypothesis proposed in this research is that because of the prevalence of family ***** in African-American families, medical professionals, and specifically nurses should be carefully ***** thoroughly trained in the identification of childhood trauma due ***** exposure to violence in order to implement treatment early enough ***** the life ***** the child for the ***** ***** avoid the many negative outcomes associated with family violence experiences so that ***** child has the opportunity to overcome ***** ***** affects ***** with witnessing violence as a *****.

Liter*****ture Review

The work of Dalpaize (2006) entitled: "Breaking Free, Starting Over: Parenting in the Aftermath of Family Violence" states that the "emotional terror*****m that infuses violence between adults" does not only affect the ***** who are victims but also greatly impacts the lives ***** ***** who ***** witnesses to ***** violence. A parent can identify the child who is traumatized by family violence and *****n help the child attain recovery and a life of h*****ppiness. Dalpaize states that: "Safeguarding children, building trust and breaking the ***** of violence..." are goals ***** the caring parent may ***** *****ir child in attaining. (*****).

***** work of Merrill, Thomsen, Crouch, and May (2005) entitled: "Predicting *****dult Risk of Child Physical Abuse from Childhood Exposure to *****: Can Interpersonal Schemata Explain the Association?" published in ***** Journal of Social ***** Clinical Psychology states that those who experienced maltreatment or ***** exposure while children are at an increased risk of experiencing violence as adults which is stated ***** be a phenomenon which h***** received t*****e la*****l the 'in*****rgenerational transmission of violence." (Merrill, Thomsen, Crouch and May, *****) The work of Merrill, Thomsen, Crouch and May reports a study conducted in order to expl*****in why some ***** receive childhood exposure to ***** become those who commit acts of childhood violence in *****ir adult years. Two types ***** factors were considered which are identified as first the examination of "the number and kinds of childhood violence experienced influenced adult ***** of child physical abuse and whether "***** risk ***** child ***** abuse perpetration w***** stronger among those who had ***** abuse at the hands of *****ir ********** than among ***** who had been abused by non-p*****ntal adults." (Ibid) Third examined was whether individuals ***** had received exposure to "multiple forms of ***** violence were at increased risk ***** adult child physical abuse ***** rel*****ive to those exposed to only one kind of *****." (Merrill, Thomsen, ***** and May, 2005) The study also questioned whether risk might be linked to the beliefs and expectations of the individual in terms of *****terpersonal relationships and interpersonal schemata. (Ibid, paraphrased) There are various and diverse perspective in terms of theory ***** agree upon the *****ternalized representations that exist in the ********** of internalized relationship representation which are stated ***** serve as