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Multilevel developmental approaches to understanding the effects of child maltreatment: Recent advances and future challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2015

Seth D. Pollak
Seth D. Pollak*
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Seth D. Pollak, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 399 Waisman Center, Madison, WI 53706–1969; E-mail: spollak@wisc.edu.
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Abstract

Recent research in the field of child maltreatment has begun to shed new light on the emergence of health problems in children by emphasizing the responsiveness of developmental processes to children's environmental and biological contexts. Here, I highlight recent trends in the field with an emphasis on the effects of early life stress across multiple levels of developmental domains.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 27 , Special Issue 4pt2: Multilevel Developmental Perspectives on Child Maltreatment , November 2015 , pp. 1387 - 1397
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