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Neuropsychological Correlates of Physical Child Abuse

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Neuropsychology of Aggression

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A number of theoretical perspectives have guided the development of explanatory models of physical child abuse. Although early models represented psychiatric or sociological views, most current models are guided by a social interactional perspective, initially described by Parke & Collmer (1975). Interactional models typically include ontogenetic (individual), microsystem (family), exosystem (community), and macrosystem (culture) factors (e.g., Belsky, 1980; Bronfenbrenner, 1977). A recent trend in physical child-abuse research has been to include contributing and buffering variables from different ecological levels and to study possible interactions. A review and critique of current physical child-abuse models is available elsewhere (Azar, 1991).

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Milner, J.S., McCanne, T.R. (1991). Neuropsychological Correlates of Physical Child Abuse. In: Milner, J.S. (eds) Neuropsychology of Aggression. Foundations of Neuropsychology, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3878-3_7

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