Where he is co-director of the Developmental Risk Research Project and the Harvard Child Maltreatment Project.
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Developmental perspectives on the etiology, intergenerational transmission, and sequelae of child maltreatment
Article first published online: 14 FEB 2006
DOI: 10.1002/cd.23219811104
Copyright © 1981 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company
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Cicchetti, D. and Rizley, R. (1981), Developmental perspectives on the etiology, intergenerational transmission, and sequelae of child maltreatment. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1981: 31–55. doi: 10.1002/cd.23219811104
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Where he is co-director of the Developmental Risk Research Project and the Harvard Child Maltreatment Project.
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Where he is co-director of the Developmental Risk Research Project and the Harvard Child Maltreatment Project.
Publication History
- Issue published online: 14 FEB 2006
- Article first published online: 14 FEB 2006
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- National Center on Child Abuse and Neglected, Administration for Children, Youth and Families, Office of Human Development. Grant Number: 90-C-1929
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Abstract
Research methods and inferential techniques must acknowledge the complexity and heterogeneity of child maltreatment. Empirical investigation of child maltreatment must be guided by sophisticated concepts of development, personality, psychopathology, and family and social systems theory.

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