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Mijuskovic, Ben – Psychology: A Journal of Human Behavior, 1990
Explores the relationship between child abuse and neglect and loneliness by developing implications of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III-Revised category of dependent personalities. Argues that behavioristic treatment plans are inadequate for child abuse because this dysfunction derives from dependent personalities who…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behaviorism, Child Abuse, Child Neglect