Directed Forgetting of Trauma Cues in Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse With and Without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Children that are in sexual abuse situations are smaller and not as powerful as their predator. ... The purpose of this study was to use directed-forgetting methods to test and see if an encoding style would characterize psychiatrically impaired adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. There were three groups tested the PTSD group was made up of adult women who had been sexually abused as children and who were currently diagnosed with PTSD. ...

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Stress is another cause for child abuse. Parents that are under great stress or unemployed are more likely to abuse their children then those parents who do not have such great problems. Children who are born premature and children with disabilities create more stress for parents. ... There are parent support groups, like parents anonymous, and other services that can help relieve stress that can lead to abuse. ... That's when the tests were performed. ...

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Stress is another cause for child abuse. Parents that are under great stress or unemployed are more likely to abuse their children then those parents who do not have such great problems. Children who are born premature and children with disabilities create more stress for parents. ... There are parent support groups, like parents anonymous, and other services that can help relieve stress that can lead to abuse. ... That's when the tests were performed. ...

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The victim is faced with a variety of stress if they choose to persecute their offender. ... The perpetrator's lawyers often ask degrading questions which add to the stress and shame, such as "what were you doing in the parking lot at night and what were you doing wearing that dress?...

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This creates a type of stress in the family. ... Stress and anxiety resulting from persistent fear may contribute to deviant behaviors, sometimes leading to desperate and violent acts. ... Students who live in crowded neighborhoods exhibit more behavioral problems, more anxiety and hyperactivity, and lower scores on vocabulary and reading comprehension tests, which in turn are related to violence. ...

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Parents build up all this stress and end up taking it out on their children which is very unhealthy all around. ... All of this will show in school when the child either scores badly on a test, has a hard time with language development, and achieving in academics in school. ... As more and more studies are being tested, they show that all children who are going through this in their childhood, grow up and experience problems like, teen pregnancy, drug use, and are more likely to get arrested for criminal as a juvenile. ...

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