Middle Childhood (5-12 years)
Interrelations of Maternal Expressed Emotion, Maltreatment, and Separation/Divorce and Links to Family Conflict and Children's Externalizing Behavior
Research has documented that maternal expressed emotion-criticism (EE-Crit) from the FiveMinute Speech Sample (FMSS) predicts family conflict and children’s externalizing behavior in clinical and community samples.
2016
Childhood Maltreatment Predicts Unfavorable Course of Illness and Treatment Outcome in Depression: A Meta-analysis
Objectives: Evidence suggests that childhood maltreatment may negatively affect not only the lifetime risk of depression but also clinically relevant measures of depression, such as course of illness and treatment outcome.
2012
Differentiated Associations between Childhood Maltreatment Experiences and Social Understanding: A Meta-analysis and Systematic Review
The extreme parenting experiences encountered by children who are physically abused or neglected place them at increased risk for impaired socio-emotional development.
2013
Perceived Parental Neglect, and Children's Psychological Maladjustment, and Negative Personality Dispositions: A Meta-analysis of Multi-cultural Studies
The objective of this meta-analysis is to address three questions drawn from one of the basic postulates of parental acceptance–rejection theory: (1) To what extent is children’s perceptions of parental indifference/neglect related to their psychological maladjustment?
2015
Child Maltreatment Fatalities Related to Inadequate Caregiver Supervision
More than 1,500 children died in the United States in 2011 due to child maltreatment. A substantial portion of these deaths were due to neglect.
2014