Recent Publications

Child and Adult Victimization: Seqeulae for Female Caregivers of High-Risk Children (Weisbart et al., 2008) - The study examined whether victimized women (compared to nonvictimized women) would endorse higher rates of depression, lower levels of social support, and poorer recent health. Read more…

LONGSCAN in the News

Dr. Desmond Runyan has headed the medical school's Department of Social Medicine and headed the state's system to evaluate abused and battered children. All the while, he treated the youngest patients shuttled into UNC-CH.

"It's such a privilege to be able to care for patients and their families," Runyan says. "Plus, I get to have stand-up comedians walk into my office. Kids have such charm and humor and spirit." Read more…

 

  

What kind of research is needed?

In 1993, the National Academy of Sciences assembled a panel of experts from a number of related fields to offer guidance about how current and future research resources should be directed. This Research Council recommended the following types of research:

  • longitudinal and developmental, examining the impact of the timing, duration, severity, and the nature of maltreatment over the child's life course
  • collaborative, bringing together diverse perspectives on the problem
  • ecological, examining the way individual, family, and community factors interact in the causes and consequences of child maltreatment
  • comprehensive, clarifying the outcomes of specific and combined types of maltreatment
  • evaluative, comparing the effectiveness of existing child protection and child welfare systems

 

 

 

 

 

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