Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I History and definition
- Part II Parental and contextual influences on maltreatment
- Part III The developmental consequences of child maltreatment
- 13 How research on child maltreatment has informed the study of child development: perspectives from developmental psychopathology
- 14 Child maltreatment and attachment theory
- 15 Patterns of maternal behavior among infants at risk for abuse: relations with infant attachment behavior and infant development at 12 months of age
- 16 Finding order in disorganization: lessons from research on maltreated infants' attachments to their caregivers
- 17 Peer relations in maltreated children
- 18 The effects of maltreatment on development during early childhood: recent studies and their theoretical, clinical, and policy implications
- 19 Social cognition in maltreated children
- 20 The effects of maltreatment on the development of young children
- 21 Troubled youth, troubled families: the dynamics of adolescent maltreatment
- 22 Child abuse, delinquency, and violent criminality
- 23 The prevention of maltreatment
- Name index
- Subject index
21 - Troubled youth, troubled families: the dynamics of adolescent maltreatment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I History and definition
- Part II Parental and contextual influences on maltreatment
- Part III The developmental consequences of child maltreatment
- 13 How research on child maltreatment has informed the study of child development: perspectives from developmental psychopathology
- 14 Child maltreatment and attachment theory
- 15 Patterns of maternal behavior among infants at risk for abuse: relations with infant attachment behavior and infant development at 12 months of age
- 16 Finding order in disorganization: lessons from research on maltreated infants' attachments to their caregivers
- 17 Peer relations in maltreated children
- 18 The effects of maltreatment on development during early childhood: recent studies and their theoretical, clinical, and policy implications
- 19 Social cognition in maltreated children
- 20 The effects of maltreatment on the development of young children
- 21 Troubled youth, troubled families: the dynamics of adolescent maltreatment
- 22 Child abuse, delinquency, and violent criminality
- 23 The prevention of maltreatment
- Name index
- Subject index
Summary
Abuse and neglect are embedded in a wide range of adolescent problems – delinquency, parricide, running away, and prostitution, to name but four that are mentioned frequently in research and clinical reports – with the degree of coincidence being in excess of 65 percent in some samples. These links provide an important aspect of the context within which we must understand and intervene in adolescent maltreatment. A second aspect of that context is public and professional stereotypes about adolescents.
Some of the most prominent observers of adolescence in the 1950s and 1960s saw negative stereotypes of youth as both the cause and effect of adolescent alienation from the adult world. Classics such as Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd (1956), Edgar Friedenberg's The Vanishing Adolescent (1959), and The Dignity of Youth and Other Atavisms (1965) explored this theme. Goodman's title is self-explanatory. Friedenberg emphasized the way adults often regard adolescents in general with fear and contempt, with high schools as the principal arena in which adult society plays out this theme:
They are problem-oriented and the feelings and needs for growth of their captives and unenfranchised clientele are the least of their problems; for the status of the “teenager” in the community is so low that even if he rebels, the school is not blamed for the conditions against which he is rebelling. What high school personnel become specialists in, ultimately, is the control of large groups of students.
(Friedenberg, 1965, pp. 92–93)Twenty years later, as controlling school crime and meeting basic scholastic requirements have become dominant issues, Friedenberg's analysis remains timely.
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- Child MaltreatmentTheory and Research on the Causes and Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect, pp. 685 - 706Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989
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