Understanding and Responding to Teen Victims: A Developmental Framework
By Julie L. Whitman, M.S.W.
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 14, Number 1, 2007, Pages 10-13, Item# A141-WHITMAN
Adolescents experience victimization differently than either younger children or adults. This article explores how victimization impacts adolescents using a developmental framework, discusses barriers to help-seeking that youth may experience, and provides practical suggestions for supporting those youth who have been victimized.
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Youth Victimization
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 14, Number 1, 2007
Children are among the most highly victimized segments of the population with about 1 in 3 youth reporting being victimized through either direct or indirect exposure to violence or neglect. Youth usually experience violence within the home, school or neighborhood and it is often perpetrated by acquaintances or family members.
This issue also featured these articles:
- Adolescent Online Victimization, Pages 8-9
- School-Based Mental Heath Intervention for Adolescents Exposed to Violence, Pages 17-20
- Understanding and Responding to Teen Victims: A Developmental Framework, Pages 10-13
- Victimization and Youth Violence, Pages 14-16
- Youth Victimization: Implications for Prevention, Intervention, & Public Policy, Pages 3-7
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