Crimes against Children Research Center

03/03/2023

Sexual and gender minority youth experience a disproportionate number of victimizations across multiple domains. A comprehensive assessment of victimization exposure may be important when considering prevention and intervention approaches for depressed mood and substance use.

Check out this new publication by Dr. Kimberly Mitchell and colleagues for more details!

https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ghJ82gOwGCFi6

03/01/2023

Sometimes the nature of siblings’ interactions go too far. Parents and mental health and medical professionals should take sibling aggression as seriously as they do peer bullying. Stopping and preventing sibling aggression and abuse can improve children’s safety and well-being.

All brothers and sisters have tensions or disagreements from time to time as they jockey for position in the family. But when one sibling victimizes another, there can be serious and ongoing harms.

02/02/2023

National survey shows 47% of children and 50% of adolescents have been victimized by a brother or sister, and frequency of the associated fear is notable. Our work supports calls to increase awareness of sibling victimization, its dynamics, and its links to worse mental and physical health.

Objective We compared the frequency of fearfulness for sibling versus peer victimization experiences (severe and minor physical, property, and psychological) in childhood and adolescence. Backgrou...

11/30/2021

Israel has been known for her fast rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination. Check out this paper which reports on whether youth in Israel are embracing the COVID-19 vaccine or not, and if not, why not... Congratulations to Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan for this great paper!

The primary aim of the present study is to examine the reasons for adolescents’ refusal to get vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine; and examine correlates of vaccination among adolescents aged 12-18 years in Israel.

11/29/2021

This Thursday, join CVP for the webinar 'Preventing and Reducing Teen Dating Violence' with our Director Dr. Jeff Temple.

See you December 2 at 12:00 CST!

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11/22/2021

https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/news/release/2021/11/22/unh-receives-nearly-3-million-study-impact-youth-bystanders-self-directed

DURHAM, N.H.—Researchers at the University of New Hampshire will study the effect of adolescent bystanders who are exposed to other teens and young adults engaging in self-directed violence (SDV), such as attempted su***de, and how intervention or contact can influence both the teen and the bystan...

10/20/2021

A new article by Kimberly Mitchell, Victoria Banyard and Michele Ybarra on the impact of being a bystander to self-directed violence published in the Journal of Adolescent Health!

08/31/2021

Check out this exciting new article by Victoria Banyard, Kimberly Mitchell Lema, and Michele Ybarra which provides a first look into how youth and young adults help when exposed to self-directed violence.

Exposure to self-directed violence (SDV) is a public health issue. Prevention trains third parties to identify SDV risk and provide help. However, we know little about the range of help provided to those who engage in SDV. The current study used a cross-sectional online survey of 1031 adolescents an...

08/16/2021

Excited to share this new article by Vicki Banyard, Kimberly Mitchell Lema and Michele Ybarra that takes a look at the helping behaviors of youth when exposed to self-directed violence.

Exposure to self-directed violence (SDV) is a public health issue. Prevention trains third parties to identify SDV risk and provide help. However, we know little about the range of help provided to those who engage in SDV. The current study used a cross-sectional online survey of 1031 adolescents an...

03/30/2021

03/19/2021

Save the date and join us for our 26th Annual Conference, presented by Maine Child Welfare Education, live via Zoom, featuring Dr David Finkelhor from the Crimes against Children Research Center!