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The contribution of childhood emotional abuse to teen dating violence among child protective services-involved youth

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: For child protective services (CPS) youth who may have experienced more than one form of maltreatment, the unique contribution of emotional abuse may be over-looked when other forms are more salient and more clearly outside of accepted social norms for parenting. This study considers the unique predictive value of childhood emotional abuse for understanding adolescent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology and dating …

Authors

Wekerle C; Leung E; Wall A-M; MacMillan H; Boyle M; Trocme N; Waechter R

Journal

Child Abuse & Neglect, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 45–58

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

1 2009

DOI

10.1016/j.chiabu.2008.12.006

ISSN

0145-2134