Toward an Ecological/Transactional Model of Community Violence and Child Maltreatment: Consequences for Children’s Development

Psychiatry (New York)

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 96-118

  Cicchetti, Dante ^a   Lynch, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INFANT; MENTAL DISEASE; MODEL; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENTING; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0027255799     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/00332747.1993.11024624     Document Type: Article

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