This review presents the results of a series of meta-analyses identifying the relative strength
of various risk factors for child physical abuse and neglect. Data from 155 studies examining …

Objective: This article highlights the manner in which child neglect, the most common form of
maltreatment, affects children's development. Method: The review is organized according to …

Abstract Knowledge of risk factors and their effects is vital for successfully preventing and
reducing child neglect. This study provides a meta-analytic update of research on risk factors …

Introduction: Child neglect is one of the most prevalent forms of child abuse. Neglect can be
defined as a lack of sufficient attention, responsibility and protection that matches the age …

Child Maltreatment, Third Edition, by Cindy Miller-Perrin and Robin Perrin, is a thoroughly
updated new edition of the first textbook for undergraduate students and beginning graduate …

A serious case review (SCR) is a local enquiry carried out where a child has died or been
seriously harmed and abuse or neglect are known or suspected, and there is cause for …

Child maltreatment has been consistently linked to aggression, yet there have been few
attempts to conceptualize precisely how maltreatment influences the development of …

Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescents Health (Add Health) data, this study
aims to (a) test the hypothesis of intergenerational transmission of child abuse (ITCA) using …

Both childhood maltreatment and impulsivity have been implicated in a broad array of
negative public health outcomes and have been much studied in relation to each other …

This chapter is oriented toward the importance of the parent-child relational context and the
developmental traumatology model of child maltreatment. Thus the chapter departs …