Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I History and definition
- Part II Parental and contextual influences on maltreatment
- Part III The developmental consequences of child maltreatment
- 13 How research on child maltreatment has informed the study of child development: perspectives from developmental psychopathology
- 14 Child maltreatment and attachment theory
- 15 Patterns of maternal behavior among infants at risk for abuse: relations with infant attachment behavior and infant development at 12 months of age
- 16 Finding order in disorganization: lessons from research on maltreated infants' attachments to their caregivers
- 17 Peer relations in maltreated children
- 18 The effects of maltreatment on development during early childhood: recent studies and their theoretical, clinical, and policy implications
- 19 Social cognition in maltreated children
- 20 The effects of maltreatment on the development of young children
- 21 Troubled youth, troubled families: the dynamics of adolescent maltreatment
- 22 Child abuse, delinquency, and violent criminality
- 23 The prevention of maltreatment
- Name index
- Subject index
17 - Peer relations in maltreated children
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I History and definition
- Part II Parental and contextual influences on maltreatment
- Part III The developmental consequences of child maltreatment
- 13 How research on child maltreatment has informed the study of child development: perspectives from developmental psychopathology
- 14 Child maltreatment and attachment theory
- 15 Patterns of maternal behavior among infants at risk for abuse: relations with infant attachment behavior and infant development at 12 months of age
- 16 Finding order in disorganization: lessons from research on maltreated infants' attachments to their caregivers
- 17 Peer relations in maltreated children
- 18 The effects of maltreatment on development during early childhood: recent studies and their theoretical, clinical, and policy implications
- 19 Social cognition in maltreated children
- 20 The effects of maltreatment on the development of young children
- 21 Troubled youth, troubled families: the dynamics of adolescent maltreatment
- 22 Child abuse, delinquency, and violent criminality
- 23 The prevention of maltreatment
- Name index
- Subject index
Summary
Recent years have witnessed an increase in attention to the development of children who have experienced parental maltreatment. Although early studies focused mainly on documenting physical injury and cognitive impairment in maltreated children, investigators have recently begun to pay increasing attention to the social and emotional sequelae of abuse and neglect. As a result of this trend, a handful of studies has emerged that examine maltreated children's functioning in an important area of social and emotional development: interaction with age-mates and the formation of peer relationships.
Increased understanding of the relationship between maltreatment and peer relations is important for several reasons. First, establishing successful relations with peers is recognized to be a central task of childhood. Peer relations may contribute uniquely to the growth of social and emotional competence, to the acquisition of social skills and values, and to the development of the capacity to form relationships with others (Hartup, 1983; Youniss, 1980). Furthermore, investigators have found that the quality of a child's peer relations is significantly associated with the quality of functioning in other realms, both during childhood and in later years. In particular, childhood peer relations have been identified as one of the most powerful predictors of concurrent and future mental health problems, including the development of psychiatric disorders (Cowen, Pederson, Babigian, Izzo, and Trost, 1973; Roff, Sells, and Golden, 1972; Sundby and Kreyberg, 1968). Maltreated children – by virtue of their placement on the extreme end of the “continuum of caretaking casualty” (Sameroff and Chandler, 1975) – can be hypothesized to be “at risk” for a variety of difficulties.
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- Child MaltreatmentTheory and Research on the Causes and Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect, pp. 529 - 578Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989
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