Mothers who murdered their child: An attachment-based study on filicide

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1468-1477

  Barone, Lavinia ^a   Bramante, Alessandra ^b   Lionetti, Francesca ^a   Pastore, Massimiliano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attachment; Filicide; Mental illness; Parenting risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEW; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILICIDE; HELPLESSNESS; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INFANTICIDE; LIFE EVENT; MOOD DISORDER; RISK FACTOR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; BAYES THEOREM; HOMICIDE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908236391     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: 18737757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.04.014     Document Type: Article

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