Childhood Emotional Abuse

Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact

Margaret O'Dougherty Wright

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780789037121
• eBook ISBN: 9781317993803
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery
• Index: Social Sciences

Get the latest research on the processes underlying the long term effects of psychological and emotional abuse The effects of the emotional abuse of children are not necessarily seen immediately. Evidence shows that this type of maltreatment to be perhaps as damaging as other, more obvious forms of abuse. Childhood Emotional Abuse: Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact provides the latest new data on processes underlying the long term effects of psychological and emotional abuse. This comprehensive book presents cutting edge research that focuses on the who, why, and how of emotional abuse and its negative impact across the life span. This valuable resource combines theory and research in exploring important mediators and moderators of the long term impact of child emotional abuse. Childhood Emotional Abuse: Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact offers insight into exciting new research that highlights emotional abuse impact across biological, intrapersonal, and interpersonal domains. Mediators examined include alterations in the stress response system, cognitive distortions and negative thoughts, maladaptive interpersonal schemes, and disturbances in psychological health which impact spousal relationships. Gender and race are discussed in detail as important moderators. This important book may be an essential first step in finding possible explanations for the persistence of these negative effects. The topics in Childhood Emotional Abuse: Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact include:

• a comprehensive review of possible neurodevelopmental consequences of childhood emotional abuse
• biological consequences of abuse and mistreatment
• the link between childhood emotional abuse and later vulnerability to depression
• effects of emotional abuse on subsequent interpersonal relationshipsincluding ways of handling conflict and risk for dating abuse
• the impact of emotional abuse on later marital satisfaction

Childhood Emotional Abuse: Mediating and Moderating Processes Affecting Long-Term Impact is a crucial one-of-a-kind reference for researchers studying long term effects of child abuse, and is also useful for psychologists, social workers, and counselors working with child abuse survivors.

Index

Abramson, L.Y., 61, 67

Abuse

emotional, in childhood, long-term impact of, 1–8

psychological, childhood, impact on adult interpersonal conflict, 75–92. See also Childhood psychological abuse, impact on adult interpersonal conflict

Adaptation(s), implications for, 21–22

Aggression, relationship, childhood psychological maltreatment impact on, 93–116. See also Childhood psychological abuse, impact on interpersonal schemas and subsequent experiences of relationship aggression

Aggression Questionnaire, 99, 101

Andrews, B., 63

Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire-Revised (ATQ-R), 64

Ball, C., 78

Baron, R.M., 82–84, 103, 105

BDI. See Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)

Beck, A.T., 60, 61

Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), 64

Benaim, K., 78

Benas, J.S., xvii, 4, 59

Benjamin, L.S., 108

Bernstein, D.P., 88, 124

Bifulco, A., 78

Bineggeli, N.J., 76

Binghamton University, xvii, xviii

Department of Psychology of, Mood Disorders Institute in, xvii

Bradbury, T.N., 136

Brassard, S.R., 76

Brewin, C.R., 63

Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) Severity Index, 123, 126, 127, 129, 130

Briere, J., 82

Brown University, Clinical Psychology Training Consortium of, xvii

BSI. See Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)

Bugental, D.B., 20, 22

Buss, A.H., 101

CAMI. See Computer Assisted Maltreatment Inventory (CAMI)

CAST–6. See Children of Alcoholics Screening Test–6 (CAST–6)

CEA. See Childhood emotional abuse (CEA)

Cecero, J.J., 88

Child Maltreatment Interview, 63

Childhood, emotional maltreatment and verbal victimization in, effect on adults’ depressive cognitions and symptoms, 59–73. See also Emotional maltreatment and verbal victimization in childhood, effect on adults’ depressive cognitions and symptoms

Childhood emotional abuse (CEA)

developmental consequences of

future research and practice, 22–27

introduction to, 10–11

neurodevelopmental perspective on, 12–16, 14f, 15f

mammalian stress response, 13–16,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• About the Editor
• Table of Contents
• About the Contributors
• Introduction
• The Developmental Consequences of Child Emotional Abuse: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective
• Cardiovascular Correlates of Interpersonal Mistreatment in Healthy Adults
• Emotional Maltreatment and Verbal Victimization in Childhood: Relation to Adults’ Depressive Cognitions and Symptoms
• The Impact of Childhood Psychological Abuse on Adult Interpersonal Conflict: The Role of Early Maladaptive Schemas and Patterns of Interpersonal Behavior
• The Impact of Childhood Psychological Maltreatment on Interpersonal Schemas and Subsequent Experiences of Relationship Aggression
• Childhood Psychological Maltreatment and Quality of Marriage: The Mediating Role of Psychological Distress
• Index