Childhood Adversity and Developmental Effects: An International, Cross-Disciplinary Approach

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CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY AND
DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECTS
International and Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives

CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY AND
DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECTS
International and Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives
Edited by
Lisa Albers Prock, MD, MPH
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
LISA ALBERS PROCK, MD, MPH
Dr. Prock is a Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician at Children’s Hospi-
tal (Boston) where she co-founded and directs the Adoption Program and
works in the Developmental Medicine Center. She is a co-director of the
Translational Neuroscience Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, and she
is the director of Developmental Behavioral Pediatric Services at Chil-
dren’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where her responsibilities
include Clinical Director of the Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Fel-
lowship Program. She also is active in international health and resident/
fellow education. She attended college at the University of Chicago, medi-
cal school at Columbia University and received a master’s degree in public
health from the Harvard School of Public Health. At the end of her train-
ing, she worked as a primary care pediatrician at a community health cen-
ter and as an inpatient hospital physician. After obtaining a public health
degree in International Health, she lived and worked in Cambodia where
she taught pediatrics and studied the epidemiology of tuberculosis in chil-
dren. She returned to Boston for further training in general pediatrics and
development as a Dyson Fellow at Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Prock is currently involved in translational research efforts as the
Principal Investigator for four clinical trials working with adolescents and
young adults with Fragile X Syndrome. She is also co-director of the clin-
ical arm of the Translational Neuroscience Center at Boston Children’s
Hospital, a multidisciplinary collaboration to accelerate the translation of
basic science fi ndings into clinical meaning for children with developmen-
tal disabilities and their families. Dr. Prock has also combined her clini-
cal interests in child development and international health with advocacy
for children, particularly in the areas of foster care and adoption. She has
been working with adoptees (both domestic and international) involved in
medical, residential and educational settings since 1991.
vi About the Editor
Her research interests include the long-term developmental, behavioral
and emotional concerns of adoptees. She has co-authored several original
publications, edited several reference volumes, and written numerous ar-
ticles. She has been a board member for several nonprofi t organizations,
including the Center for Family Connections, a family therapy organiza-
tion specializing in issues for foster-care and adoptive families; Adoptive
Families Together, a parent support group specifi c to adoptive families;
and the Treehouse Foundation, a foster family empowerment program.
She has received numerous local and national awards for her work with
children and families, most recently the 2004 United States Congressional
Angel in Adoption Award. She is a past chairperson of the American Acad-
emy of Pediatrics Section on Adoption and Foster Care and current execu-
tive committee member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council
on Foster Care, Kinship and Adoption.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgment and How to Cite .............................................................ix
List of Contributors ....................................................................................xi
Introduction ..............................................................................................xxi
Part I: An International Problem
1. Acts of Omission: An Overview of Child Neglect ....................................3
Child Welfare Information Gateway, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Children’s Bureau
2. Frequency of Child Maltreatment in a Representative Sample of
the German Population ............................................................................25
Benjamin Iffl and, Elmar Brähler, Frank Neuner, Winfried Häuser, and Heide Glaesmer
3. Setting the Stage for Chronic Health Problems: Cumulative
Childhood Adversity among Homeless Adults with Mental Illness
in Vancouver, British Columbia ..............................................................41
Michelle L Patterson, Akm Moniruzzaman, and Julian M Somers
4. Emotional Abuse Towards Children by Schoolteachers in Aden
Governorate, Yemen: A Cross-Sectional Study ......................................63
Amal S. S. Ba-Saddik and Abdullah S. Hattab
5. Child Neglect in One-Child Families from Suzhou City of
Mainland China ........................................................................................81
Jing Hua, Zhe Mu, Bright I Nwaru, Guixiong Gu, Wei Meng,
and Zhuochun Wu
Part II: Children and War
6. Transgenerational Consequences of PTSD: Risk Factors for the
Mental Health of Children Whose Mothers Have Been Exposed
to the Rwandan Genocide ......................................................................101
Maria Roth, Frank Neuner, and Thomas Elbert
7. The Intergenerational Effects of War on the Health of Children ......129
Delan Devakumar, Marion Birch, David Osrin, Egbert Sondorp, and
Jonathan C. K. Wells
viii Contents
Part III: The Developmental Impact on Mental and Physical Health
8. Childhood Adversity, Recent Life Stressors and Suicidal Behavior
in Chinese College Students ...................................................................169
Zhiqi You, Mingxi Chen, Sen Yang, Zongkui Zhou, and Ping Qin
9. Childhood Sexual Abuse and the Development of Recurrent
Major Depression in Chinese Women ...................................................187
Jing Chen, Yiyun Cai, Enzhao Cong, Ying Liu, Jingfang Gao, Youhui Li, Ming Tao,
Kerang Zhang, Xumei Wang, Chengge Gao, Lijun Yang, Kan Li,Jianguo Shi,
Gang Wang, Lanfen Liu, Jinbei Zhang, Bo Du, Guoqing Jiang, Jianhua Shen,
Zhen Zhang, Wei Liang, Jing Sun, Jian Hu, Tiebang Liu, Xueyi Wang, Guodong Miao,
Huaqing Meng, Yi Li, Chunmei Hu, Yi Li, Guoping Huang, Gongying Li, Baowei Ha,
Hong Deng, Qiyi Mei, Hui Zhong,Shugui Gao, Hong Sang, Yutang Zhang, Xiang Fang,
Fengyu Yu, Donglin Yang, Tieqiao Liu, Yunchun Chen, Xiaohong Hong, Wenyuan Wu,
Guibing Chen, Min Cai, Yan Song, Jiyang Pan, Jicheng Dong, Runde Pan, Wei Zhang,
Zhenming Shen, Zhengrong Liu, Danhua Gu, Xiaoping Wang, Xiaojuan Liu, Qiwen
Zhang, Yihan Li, Yiping Chen, Kenneth S. Kendler, Shenxun Shi, and Jonathan Flint
10. Differences in the Association Between Childhood Trauma and
BMI in Black and White South African Women .................................209
J. H. Goedecke, J. Forbes, and D. J. Stein
11. Childhood Trauma and PTSD Symptoms Increase the Risk of
Cognitive Impairment in a Sample of Former Indentured Child
Laborers in Old Age ...............................................................................219
Andrea Burri, Andreas Maercker, Sandy Krammer,
and Keti Simmen-Janevska
12. Adverse Childhood Experiences, Psychosocial Well-Being and
Cognitive Development Among Orphans and Abandoned Children
in Five Low Income Countries ..............................................................241
Maya Escueta, Kathryn Whetten, Jan Ostermann, Karen O’Donnell,
and The Positive Outcomes for Orphans (POFO) Research Team
Part IV: Hope for the Future
13. School-Based Mental Health Intervention for Children in
War-Affected Burundi: A Cluster Randomized Trial .........................271
Wietse A. Tol, Ivan H. Komproe, Mark J. D. Jordans,
Aline Ndayisaba, Prudence Ntamutumba, Heather Sipsma,
Eva S. Smallegange, Robert D. Macy, and Joop T. V. M. de Jong
14. Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children ..........297
Child Welfare Information Gateway, Children’s Bureau
Author Notes ....................................................................................................313
Index .................................................................................................................321
ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND
HOW TO CITE
The editor and publisher thank each of the authors who contributed to
this book. The chapters in this book were previously published in various
places in various formats. To cite the work contained in this book and to
view the individual permissions, please refer to the citation at the begin-
ning of each chapter. Each chapter was read individually and carefully se-
lected by the editor; the result is a book that provides a nuanced look at the
outcomes of childhood adversity around the world. The chapters included
examine the following topics:
• Written from a completely American perspective, Chapter 1 provides a
comprehensive overview of the compendium topic, as represented within
the United States, offering prevalence numbers, definitions, a summary of
research, and discussion of the related factors social workers need to con-
sider in relation to this issue.
• The authors of Chapter 2 provide parallel information to that offered in
the previous chapter, though in less depth, for German society instead of
American.
• In Chapter 3, we shift our attention to Canada, where the authors consider
the connections between childhood adversity and adult homelessness, of-
fering social workers a better understanding of how two population groups
intersect and in fact may need to be perceived holistically rather than as two
separate social issues.
• In Chapter 4, the authors provide a fascinating discussion of how school
teachers’ “disciplinary style” within Yemen society may actually be a form
of emotional abuse that is facilitated by socio-cultural factors.
• China’s one-child families create a particular environment within which
to consider the problem of child abuse. The authors of Chapter 5 under-
line China’s unique societal demands that make it difficult to compare the
prevalence of this issue to other regions of the world, while offering a foun-
dation and direction for further research.
• The first of two chapters examining the effect of war on children, the au-
thors of Chapter 6 focus on trans-generational mental health issues. Their
findings did not support the hypothesis that parental PTSD is associated
with children’s mental health. Instead, mental health issues in children are
closely associated with trans-generational maternal violence (violence tak-