The present study examined the relations between child maltreatment and reactive and proactive functions of aggression, and whether hostile attribution biases partially accounted for these associations in a sample of 339 college students (mean age = 19; 51% male). Child maltreatment was associated with reactive, but not proactive, aggression, and instrumental hostile attribution biases accounte...

Child abuse and neglect are prevalent in American society. In many cases, the abuse is perpetuated generationally.(1) Child maltreatment, abuse and victimization refer to the intentional assault of a child by a caretaker. This definition has been expanded to cover any action that undermines a child's development potential and is a significant expansion of the definition associated with the batt...

The self-reported child-rearing practices of 214 parents of battered babies were characterized in a few but not all respects by demanding behaviour which exceeded that to be expected in relation to their social class and age. Inconsistency in child management was noted in the comparison between lack of demonstrativeness and emotional over-involvement, and between physical punishment and a tende...

AIM To determine the effectiveness of an intervention programme developed to help parents manage serious child illness. METHOD Information from previous research about parents' stress of managing their children's serious illnesses, plus their wishes for what to do about it, were used to develop a behavioural intervention to be used with groups of parents with seriously ill children. The 6-wee...

What constitutes evidence of child maltreatment varies from state to state: each state has its own definition of child maltreatment and its own evidentiary standard for determining child maltreatment. Some states count infants’ prenatal exposure to drugs as child maltreatment, for example, while others do not. Some states require a preponderance of the evidence for a case to be substantiated as...