Adolescence (12-18 years)

Purpose: We examine two research questions. First, does a history of childmaltreatment victimization significantly increase the likelihood of maltreatment perpetration during adulthood?

Adolescents, and especially male adolescents, make up a disproportionately smaller portion of maltreatment reports compared to younger children.

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.

The extreme parenting experiences encountered by children who are physically abused or neglected place them at increased risk for impaired socio-emotional development.

Objectives To determine whether depression and anxiety in adulthood are associated with abuse exposure in childhood. Methods A search of PUBMED, EMBASE and PSYCHINFO databases (2002–2012) was supplemented by hand searches of bibliographies of articles and reviews.

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?

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.

Although adolescents’ emotional lives are thought to be more turbulent than those of adults, it is unknown whether this difference is attributable to developmental changes in emotional reactivity or emotion regulation.

Objective: This empirical case study describes Prevent Child Abuse Georgia’s effort to prevent child sexual abuse (CSA) by educating communities throughout the state on supporting preventive behaviour.