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Child Abuse

MEDLINE (EBSCO)
Health research database containing scholarly medical, clinical, biomedical and health care journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Nursing and allied health database. Contains full text, scholarly articles covering pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management and medical law.
Science (Gale In Context)
Provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Contains over 600 pages on topics such as biology, chemistry, earth and environmental science, physics, and more.
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TED Talks: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime (Video Duration 16 minutes)
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
Recognizing Child Abuse: Neglect and Emotional Abuse (Video Duration 18 minutes)
After watching this program, viewers will be able to clearly define what constitutes neglect and emotional abuse, give several examples of neglect and emotional abuse and their effects on children.