maltreatment

Examples of maltreating

maltreating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

A history of receipt of public assistance was characteristic of both groups: 95.0% of maltreating and 90.8% of nonmaltreating families.
Examples of emotionally maltreating events included serious threats to injure a child, exposure to violent acts among family members, and abandonment by primary caregivers.
It is important that studies to date have not included caregiving that has been severe enough to be classified as maltreating.
Rather, families continued to receive services that were typically available to maltreating families in the community.
As such, all analyses examined intervention effects on maltreating families as a whole.
Fostering secure attachment in infants in maltreating families through preventive interventions.
The mean age of these children was 31.3 and 30.1 months, from the maltreating and nonmaltreating families, respectively.
The families in both groups were heavily reliant on public assistance, with 3.7% more of maltreating families receiving such support.
Including benefits, the maltreating families made $15,900.00 per year, whereas the nonmaltreating comparisons made $17,620.00 annually.
In addition, the mean maternal age of the maltreating sample was higher than that in the nonmaltreating sample, 29.4 versus 25.8 years, t 2, 57!
Moreover, these results underscore the criticality of providing evidence-based services to maltreating families.
Future research should examine the way that child gender may influence the development and use of emotion management skills in maltreating families.
Moreover, the maltreating and nonmaltreating families did not differ on their annual total income.
To cope with a maltreating home environment, these children are confronted with an enormously complex learning problem.
All therapists also had considerable prior experience working with low-income maltreating families.
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