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 …

Child maltreatment exemplifies a toxic relational environment that poses significant risks for
maladaptation across biological and psychological domains of development. Research on …

In this chapter, we provide an overview of the historical issues accompanying the study of
child maltreatment and address advances, as well as challenges, that have emerged over …

Throughout the past decade, a growing number of investigators have focused their
theoretical formulations and empirical research on the normal processes of ontogenesis in …

Despite consensus on the existence and importance of psychological maltreatment, there is
far less agreement on how it should be defined. This article reviews the current definitions …

This article applies a Developmental–Ecological perspective to the question of the etiology
of physical child abuse and neglect by organizing the paper around a variety of “contexts of …

Since first emerging as an integrative field of study in the 1980s, the discipline of
developmental psychopathology has made significant contributions toward the …

This important new volume provides a comprehensive account of the causes and
consequences of child maltreatment from a developmental perspective. Over forty …

Child abuse and neglect are complex phenomena that require a multidisciplinary
perspective. This article describes current etiological formulations of child maltreatment …

Although community efforts to protect America's children have grown, the stark reality that
confronts us as a nation is that 1 out of every 43 children in the United States has …