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The Physical, Sexual and Emotional Abuse of Children
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Physical and psychological maltreatment: Relations among types of maltreatment
Child Abuse & Neglect, 1991
Although maltreatment is known to have detrimental effects on social-emotional development, the relation of those effects to type of maltreatment and child age is not clear. Most studies either focus solely on abuse or do not differentiate among types of maltreatment. Further, most concentrate on young children. Studies of psychological maltreatment in young children indicate that physical abuse and psychological maltreatment tend to co-occur, severity of injury is not related to severity of psychological maltreatment or to developmental problems, and severity of psychological maltreatment is related to developmental outcomes. The present study investigated 1) relations among types of physical and psychological maltreatment and 2) their effect on development in an ethnically diverse sample of maltreated school-aged children and adolescents. The results indicated that, as in young children, physical and psychological maltreatment co-occurred in most cases. Severity of emotional abuse was related to severity of physical neglect in school-aged children and severity of physical injury to severity of physical abuse in adolescents. Severity of emotional abuse was related to both behavior problems and depression. The differences between the patterns of effects for school-aged children and those for adolescents are discussed as are implications of the findings for intervention.