Domestic violence is abuse between family members or related persons. Domestic violence may come in many forms: actual physical abuse, threats of physical abuse, emotional abuse, threatening telephone calls, disturbances at a place of employment, stalking, and other forms of dominance and control. ...
An estimated 3.3 million children are exposed to violence against their mothers or female caretakers by family members (American Psychological Association 1996). ... Forty to sixty percent of men who abuse women also abuse children (American Psychological Association 1996). ...
Recent reviews of the research literature reveal that violent computer games increases aggressive behaviour in children and young adults (Anderson, C A & Bushman, Brad; Australian Psychological Society). ... American Psychological Association evidence, "Children who play violent computer games have few friends, and is often rejected by other children brcause of his or her behavior". ...
Media and Its Effects On Children Sex and violence sell and the media often use these, to an unlimited degree, to seize market share regardless of the damage that may occur to children and adolescent youth. This violent and often foul language content is spewed over airwaves, seen and heard on...
As for drinking, it is hard to deny there is some association between drinking and battering, but what it exactly is is still not known. ... This is much easier said than done because of psychological inability to leave after being assaulted. ... The social-learning theory known as "learned helplessness", is the psychological rationale developed to explain why the battered woman becomes a victim in the first place and how the process of victimization is perpetuated to the point of psychological paralysis. ... Having been trained to be second best, women begin marriage with a psychological d...
These concerned men and women are convinced that the central problem of television violence is found in the heavy viewing of violent entertainment by today's adolescent, the violent content engrossed in entertainment industry, and the psychological and behavioral effects of combining these two elements (Hepburn 244). ... A 1993 report by the American Psychological Association warned that the average American child is watching 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence before leaving elementary school (Hepburn 244). ... Last of all, much of the public who disapprove of television violenc...
Although the American Psychological Association has recently focused attention on childhood exposure to domestic violence, and some mental health professionals have, for years, provided special services to battered women and their children, most mental health professionals do not receive training in recognizing or treating children exposed to domestic violence (Katz 164). ...
Opponents of gun control, including the National Rifle Association, better known as the NRA, argue that the "right To bear arms" is guaranteed in the second amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America and licensing restrictions penalize law-abiding citizens while in no way preventing criminal use of handguns. ...
The National Cable Television Association defines television violence as, Any overt depiction of the use of physical - or credible threat of physical force - intended to physically harm an animate being or group of beings. ... According to psychological research children suffer three negative effects while watching violence on TV. ...
Additionally, the emotional, psychological, and behavioral impact on the female victim and her children will be presented through the empirical evidence. ... Social Psychological Theory explains the strong emotional bond that forms between the battered woman and her partner, sometimes referred to a traumatic bonding (Painter & Dutton, 1985). ...
David Elkind, president emeritus, National Association for the Education of Young Children, "Television forces children to accommodate a great deal and inhibits the assimilation of material. ... Psychological research has shown that children become less sensitive to pain and suffering of others, more fearful of the world around them, and are more likely to behave in aggressive or harmful ways toward others. ...