Child abuse in a court referred, inner city population

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Several commonly held assumptions about child abuse were examined to determine their validity for a court referred inner city population. Subjects were referred to the Forensic Psychiatry Division for evaluation and identified by the court as child abusers. Each evaluation included a psychiatric interview, some psychological testing, and social history data. The results indicated that childhood emotional deprivation may be a significant historical component in child abuse, while social isolation is a significant contemporary factor. The results also suggest that there is something about the interaction between a particular child and parent that triggers the abuse rather than a specific characteristic of the child.

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