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September 2015

Girls’ Aggression and Child Welfare Social Work: Blog 6, Relational Aggression: Girls who Perpetrate

By |2016-12-01T19:32:54-06:00September 18th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

By Jane F. Gilgun and Samantha Hirschey, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA In blog 5, we discussed definitions, the experiences of survivors of relational aggression, and the long-term developmental risks of these behaviors for survivors. In this blog, we discuss the meanings of relational aggression to perpetrators. We also show how aggression is an [...]

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Girls’ Aggression and Child Welfare Social Work: Blog 5, Girls’ Relational Aggression: Targets of the Aggression

By |2016-12-01T19:32:54-06:00September 17th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

By Jane F. Gilgun and Samantha Hirschey, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA Girls’ relational aggression is behavior intended to damage the relationships of others. As stated earlier, relational aggression includes teasing, gossiping, ostracism, threatening to withdraw or directly withdrawing friendship or social acceptance, misrepresenting others, and spreading rumors. Some relational aggression arises from competition [...]

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Girls’ Aggression and Child Welfare Social Work: Blog 4, Types of Aggression: Non-Contact and Contact Aggression

By |2016-12-01T19:32:54-06:00September 16th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

By Jane F. Gilgun and Samantha Hirschey, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA Instrumental and reactive aggression can be non-contact or contact behaviors. In non-contact aggression, individuals use words and non-verbal expressions such as gestures and facial expressions that harm others. In contact aggression, individuals have bodily contact that can be in the forms of [...]

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Girls’ Aggression and Child Welfare Social Work: Blog 3, Types of Aggression: Instrumental and Reactive

By |2016-12-01T19:32:54-06:00September 14th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

By Jane F. Gilgun and Samantha Hirschey, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA Persons who commit aggressive acts base their behaviors on widely-held beliefs and practices. Often their families, communities, and mass media promote the kinds of aggression that they commit. Children and their families who become clients in child welfare agencies often are survivors [...]

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Girls’ Aggression and Child Welfare Social Work: Blog 2, Girls’ Aggression: An Overview

By |2016-12-01T19:32:54-06:00September 11th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

By Jane F. Gilgun and Samantha Hirschey, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA Girls’ aggression is a growing concern in families, schools, and communities. Aggression is disregard for the well-being of others that results in physical, emotional, and psychological injury. For persons who commit aggression, their behaviors are logical, normal, and often necessary for them [...]

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Girls’ Aggression and Child Welfare Social Work: Blog 1, Worthlessness and Self-Compassion

By |2016-12-01T19:32:54-06:00September 10th, 2015|Categories: Featured@CASCW|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

By Jane F. Gilgun and Samantha Hirschey, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA Young people who have experienced abuse and neglect often feel worthless, unlovable, and unworthy of respect. Professionals often tell them, “It’s not your fault.” This might provide temporary relief, but the negative beliefs are deeply embedded. They don’t go away without the [...]

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