Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in parental history have been associated with higher self-reported rates of negative parenting behaviors and lower self-reported rates of positive parenting behaviors. Further research is needed to explore the association between parental ACEs and the observed parent-child interaction quality.…

Abundant literature has documented the far-reaching adverse impacts of parental neglect on later intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes. However, the existing research has been limited, neglecting to investigate its enduring effects on various development domains simultaneously. Based on the developmental cascade model, this study investigates…

Adverse experiences throughout development confer risk for a multitude of negative long-term outcomes, but the processes via which these experiences are neurobiologically embedded are still unclear. Adolescence provides an opportunity to understand how these experiences impact the brain's rapidly changing structure. Two models are central to…

Background: Previous studies have reported a moderate influence of environmental factors in the aetiology of stuttering. However, psychological and socio-environmental factors in stuttering are often studied independently without exploring their relationships. This makes it difficult to know which factors are most important, especially among…

Introduction: This study explores students', teachers' and no teaching staff's knowledge about the risk factors of child abuse and their level of awareness in comparison with other professional and educational fields. The study assesses the degree of knowledge about the risk factors related to child characteristics, family, socioeconomic and…

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between childhood traumas experienced by adolescents and their future expectations. The sample comprised 408 high school students, with 212 girls and 196 boys. The researchers employed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Short Form (CTQ-SF) to assess participants' childhood trauma, the Future…

Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) has recently adopted a new position statement focused on preventing and responding to maltreatment of children with disabilities. This significant initiative builds on previous efforts, including the CEC Policy on the Prevention of and Response to Maltreatment, and aims to provide actionable steps for…

This study aimed to explore stepfamily representation in fairy tales and their animations on YouTube. The data was collected via document analysis in the study. The data source of the research is Grimm's fairy tales which are classical fairy tales. The results demonstrate that stepmothers identify with the stereotypical wicked women, both in the…

Stewart and McCracken at the Coalition for Responsible Home Education (CRHE) present a rebuttal to our article where their main critique is regarding our study's ideological roots. In this rejoinder to Stewart and McCracken, we highlight three things: (1) the takeaways from our study are robust to the criticism of CRHE; (2) our survey instrument…

It is the position of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) that prevention, early identification, intervention, and care of child maltreatment are critical to the physical/emotional well-being and academic success of students. As professionals who bridge education and health, registered professional school nurses (hereinafter referred…

Emotional neglect is an under-recognized but relatively common type of childhood maltreatment. Although it has been reported that adolescents will facilitate positive growth after experiencing childhood maltreatment, such as sexual abuse, it is unknown whether adolescents could also get a promotion after experiencing emotional neglect. Thus, we…

This study aimed to validate the Croatian version of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire 10-item version (ACE-10) in a sample of 293 emerging adults (mean age 22 years old; 56.9% women). ACE-10 is a self-report retrospective questionnaire that assesses abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction. Measures of depression, anxiety, stress,…

While child abuse and neglect have been explored at length, less attention has been paid to the role of contemporary realist Young Adult Literature (YAL) in denouncing abusive treatments of young people in conjunction with adultism. It is hereby suggested that age inequality is at the core of youth maltreatment, and it is this intersectionality…

Neglect is the most prevalent form of maltreatment, but it has been understudied relative to abuse. Additionally, developmental outcomes associated with early maternal withdrawal have been understudied relative to outcomes associated with harsh treatment. However, a large body of studies on rodents has documented the causal effect of low maternal…

Purpose: Using a longitudinal design, this study aimed to describe inferential comprehension abilities of neglected French-speaking preschool children from 42 to 66 months of age in comparison to non-neglected peers, to examine the association with receptive vocabulary, and to determine whether rates of change in inferential abilities over time…