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Abused child to nonabusive parent: Resilience and conceptual change
Author(s) -
Wilkes Glenda
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.10024
Subject(s) - psychology , coping (psychology) , conceptual change , developmental psychology , cognition , locus of control , psychological resilience , conceptual framework , context (archaeology) , social psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , pedagogy , philosophy , paleontology , epistemology , biology
Individuals who were abused as children and have spontaneously, without intervention, been able to change their cognitive and behavioral patterns such that they do not abuse their own children represent a heretofore untapped source of information and understanding about the processes of conceptual change and resilience. This pilot study investigates the nature of this conceptual change as an exemplar of resilience. Birth order, gender, locus of control, and coping behaviors emerged as areas needing further study. Additionally, the belief on the part of the abusing parents that abuse was not wrong needs further investigation as a possible precursor to this particular context for conceptual change. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 58: 261–276, 2002.