PSYCH 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Allostatic Load, Neural Development, Psychological Abuse
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Maltreatment - physical and sexual abuse, neglect, emotional abuse. Wants to belong to family, wants to stop maltreatment. Hard to make generalizations of effects of child maltreatment b/c of length of abuse, relation to perpetrator, etc. Authoritarian parenting - it may be that many forms of maltreatment emanate from harsh forms of discipline. Coercive discipline - snapping and hitting a kid. Parental substance abuse - loss of impulse control. Poverty - it"s an equal opportunity condition but more concentrated in families with low resources. Heritability of maltreatment is pretty low - most of the variance is explained by the environmental impact of maltreatment. Still there is intergenerational transmission of physical abuse. Physical abuse - range strict out-of-control hard punishments all the way to sadistic ritualistic pummeling of a kid. Physical consequences - bruises, cuts to broken bones & head trauma.
