maltreatment

Examples of maltreated

maltreated

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Future research needs to consider the role of fathers or male caregivers in the emotional development of physically maltreated children.
This may lead to secondary prevention of the psychiatric chronicity and comorbidity commonly seen in maltreated children.
It may be that maltreated girls tend toward inhibiting emotion and, as a result, are less likely to engage in such externally directed dysregulated behaviors.
It is argued that maltreated children's association of affective stimuli with traumatic experiences and memories selectively alters the meaning of emotions for these children.
However, maltreated children's resulting hypervigilance for aggressive stimuli may have deleterious effects on their information processing in nonthreatening conditions.
Recall and recognition measures revealed no differences between maltreated and nonmaltreated children's semantic memory functioning for neutral stimuli.
Thus, it is important to assess the role of dissociation in maltreated children's memory for nontrauma-related stimuli.
This variable identifies those subjects who were maltreated only during the elementary school age period, between ages 6 and 11 years.
The adolescents' ages ranged from 14 to 19 years, and they had been maltreated in their family of origin.
These researchers speculate that a maltreated child's secure attachment may function as a protective mechanism against self-dysfunction.
Maltreated youth who perceive that they are victims may, by implication, have a more developed (and more generally applied) conceptualization of victimizer.
The processes underlying maltreated children's emotional recognition reflect adaptive (but costly) responses to their environments.
Two thirds of the victims showed authority conflict problems, and almost all of the maltreated boys displayed behaviors characteristic of the overt and covert pathways.
Additionally, we are interested in whether maltreated and nonmaltreated children will differ in their resilient self-strivings and in their developmental pathways to competent functioning.
Additionally, the continuity of maladaptive functioning exhibited by maltreated children across the 3 years of this investigation was substantial.
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