Emotional Maltreatment and Psychosocial Functioning in Preadolescent Youth Placed in Out-of-Home Care

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of emotional maltreatment on the psychosocial functioning of youth placed in out-of-home care as a result of maltreatment. Participants included 243 children participating in a randomized controlled trial of a preventive intervention for preadolescent youth placed in out-of-home care. This study analyzed baseline data collected pre-randomization from interviews with children and their out-of-home caregivers and data from child welfare records. Bivariate and regression analyses were used to explore the relationships between emotional maltreatment and interpersonal functioning, self-perception, mental health, and behavioral problems for the total sample and by gender. Findings suggest that subtypes of emotional maltreatment are associated with different outcomes and that males are more negatively impacted by emotional maltreatment than are females.

Does subtype matter? Assessing the effects of maltreatment on functioning in preadolescent youth in out-of-home care

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A Developmental Process Analysis of the Contribution of Childhood Emotional Abuse to Relationship Violence

“…Child maltreatment undermines the development and maintenance of adaptive relationships in childhood and beyond (Colman & Widom, 2004;Dodge Reyome, 2010;Ehrensaft et al, 2003;Mueller & Silverman, 1989;Riggs, 2010;Swan & Snow, 2006;Taussig & Culhane, 2010). Moreover, evidence suggests that different kinds of maltreatment contribute to relational difficulties to varying degrees and via unique developmental processes (Kaplan, Pelcovitz, & Labruna, 1999;Mullen, Martin, Anderson, Romans, & Herbison, 1996;Wekerle et al, 2001;Widom, Schuck, & White, 2006).…”

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