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What is the medical model of child abuse?

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Dr. Alan Ali answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Child abuse: Medical model indicates that child abuse is caused by a disease, often a mental illness, with signs & symptoms, that can be prevented and cured.

Answered 3/16/2018

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Dr. Gerald Mandell answered

Specializes in Nuclear Medicine

Combination things: Likelihood of abuse with three elements:child with provocative behavior;parent with psychological predisposition;stressful event triggering violent reaction. Social&cultural, in addition to psychological and familial, factors have been described,dispelling the widely accepted myth that child abuse results solely from individual deviant behavior.Series of stresses that impinge on parents & children

Answered 12/6/2016

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Dr. Alan Ali answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Child abuse: It postulates that it is a disease, often a mental illness, which can be prevented & cured.

Answered 3/26/2013

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Dr. Gerald Mandell answered

Specializes in Nuclear Medicine

Combination things: Likelihood of abuse with three elements:child with provocative behavior;parent with psychological predisposition;stressful event triggering violent reaction. Social&cultural, in addition to psychological and familial, factors have been described,dispelling the widely accepted myth that child abuse results solely from individual deviant behavior.Series of stresses that impinge on parents &

Answered 12/1/2016

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