Preface
Part I History And Denfinition
1 Definitional issues in child maltreatment
2 Physical child abuse in America: past, present, and future
3 Pediatrics and child abuse
4 Sexual abuse of children: causes and consequences
5 The intergenerational transmission of child abuse
Part II Parental And Contextual Influences On Maltreatment
6 Lessons from child abuse: the determinants of parenting
7 The antecedents of maltreatment: results of the Mother-Child Interaction Research Project
8 Parental attributions as moderators of affective communication to children at risk for physical abuse
9 Perceived similarities and disagreements about childrearing practices in abusive and nonabusive families
10 Cognitive foundations for parental care
11 Intergenerational continuities and discontinuities in serious parenting difficulties
12 The construct of empathy and the phenomenon of physical maltreatment of children
Part III The Developmental Consequences Of Child Maltreatment
13 ow research on child maltreatment has informed the study of child development: perspectives from developmental psychopathology
14 hild maltreatment and attachment theory
15 atterns of maternal behaviour among infants at risk for abuse: relations with infant attachment behaviour and infant development at 12 months of age
16 inding order in disorganization: lessons from research on maltreated infants'' attachments to their caregivers
17 eer relations in maltreated children
18 he effects of maltreatment on development during early childhood: recent studies and their theoretical, clinical and policy implications
19 ocial cognition in maltreated children
20 he effects of maltreatment on the development of young children
21 roubled youth, troubled families: the dynamics of adolescent maltreatment
22 hild abuse, delinquency, and violent criminality
23 he prevention of maltreatment
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