Periodically, national media has highlighted horrific stories of child maltreatment perpetrated within military families. Child maltreatment is always heartrending.
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.
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.
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.
In addition to the stressors experienced by parents in civilian families that can increase the likelihood of child maltreatment, military families face added military-specific stressors that may increase their risk of child maltreatment.
Objective: Few studies have attempted to describe the range of cognitive impairments affecting people who have experienced child maltreatment.
The current study examines the relationship between aspects of social service availability and child maltreatment. Specifically, the study uses negative binomial regression to estimate whether service availability, accessibility, and receipt are associated with physical child abuse and neglect.
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.