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Cognitive Functioning, and Behavioral and Emotional Adjustment in Maltreated Children Post‐Intervention
Author(s) -
Houck Gail M.,
King Mary C.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6171
pISSN - 1073-6077
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6171.1993.tb00154.x
Subject(s) - psychology , anxiety , clinical psychology , intervention (counseling) , aggression , cognition , population , poison control , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , medical emergency , environmental health
Cognitive functioning and behavioral and emotional adjustment were examined in children who were previously maltreated as preschoolers, had received intervention in a developmentally salient day treatment program, and were either placed in adoptive families or returned to the biological family system. The children were evaluated, on average, four years postintervention. The children in this sample were as emotionally maladjusted as those in a clinical population; they experienced more anxiety and aggression. Additionally, they fared worse than clinical (and nonclinical) norms in terms of self‐confidence and the adaptive ability to perceive support from others, and were comparable to the clinical group in their limited ability to reach out to others in the face of problem‐resolution skills below a nonclinical level.