Adolescent Maltreatment: An Overview of the Research

This article can be found in the issue:

Adolescent Maltreatment

The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 11, Number 1, 2004

The topic of adolescent maltreatment is not well covered in the research literature. Often, research on maltreatment bunches adolescents with much younger children and any resulting problems are attributed to child abuse. Articles in this issue compare the effects of adolescent maltreatment to child abuse, explore the relationship between maltreatment and homelessness or being involved in the juvenile justice system, and explores how to assist youth who have been abused.

This issue also featured these articles:

• Adolescent Maltreatment and Its Impact: Timing Matters, Pages 7-11
• Adolescent Maltreatment: An Overview of the Research, Pages 3-6
• Assisting the Abused Adolescent: An Interview with Dr. Deanna Pledge, Pages 19-20
• Maltreatment and Victimization in Homeless Adolescents: Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire, Pages 12-14
• Teachers' Awareness of Maltreatment, Pages 18
• The Female Detention Project: The Typical Girl in Detention in Philadelphia, Pages 15-17

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