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Peer reviewedHenry, Darla L. – Child Welfare, 1999
Details study of adolescents in York County, Pennsylvania, to determine processes by which maltreated children develop adaptive personalities despite aversive family experiences. Discusses five themes that provide cues to behavior in new environments viewed as unsafe by the child: loyalty to parents, normalizing the abusive environment,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adopted Children, Adoption, Child Abuse
