1. Child Abuse and African American Children
When a child has been abused they have an increased risk of having mental health problems (Lindsey et al., 2008). ... Once mental health issues are recognized in a parent it becomes easier for the parent to recognize the mental health problems of their child. ... Children may not always be the ones being physically abused when one of their parents is in a violent relationship, but it is still harmful to them because they are living in an environment of abuse, and they are witnessing the abuse first-hand (Ornduff et al., 2002). ... "Elevated mental health problems have similarly been fo...
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