Tag: adolescent maltreatment


Adolescent Maltreatment: Building Resilience for the Future

Introduction: Defining Protective Factors in Adolescent Maltreatment Adolescent maltreatment, encompassing physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect, presents profound risks to long-term psychological, physical, and social development. While the focus of intervention often centers on mitigating the immediate damage caused by trauma, a critical area of study involves identifying and leveraging protective factors—those characteristics, […]

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Adolescent Maltreatment: Recognizing the Invisible Wounds

Defining Adolescent Maltreatment Adolescent maltreatment refers to the abuse and neglect experienced by individuals generally between the ages of 12 and 18. While often viewed as an extension of child maltreatment, it possesses unique characteristics due to the developmental stage of the victim, involving issues of autonomy, identity formation, and increased interaction with external systems […]

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