Publications by authors named "Rachel E Foster"
Sexual assault (SA) is a serious challenge faced by the U.S. military.
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- * Out of over 156,000 deployers, only 2% reported substantiated cases of physical or emotional spouse abuse, with male personnel committing abuse at twice the rate of females.
- * While overall rates of spouse abuse didn’t significantly change after deployment, there were increases in moderate/severe abuse and abuse involving alcohol, indicating a need for targeted prevention and intervention strategies.
Objective: Research on and intervention for child emotional abuse and emotional aggression toward children have been severely hampered because there have been no agreed-upon, clinically usable definitions.
Methods: We have (a) proposed and field-tested a set of criteria to operationally define child emotional abuse for clinical settings and (b) used these criteria to design a parent-report measure of parental emotional aggression and child emotional abuse that could be used in research. In this paper, we review the development and field trials of these criteria for making substantiation decisions.
Substantiation rates for alleged incidents of spouse (N = 33,787) and child (N = 31,986) maltreatment reported to the U.S. Air Force (AF) Family Advocacy Program between 2000 and 2007 were examined.
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