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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
Peer reviewedSakheim, George A.; And Others – Child Welfare, 1991
Variables found more often in a group of severe fire-setting children than in a group of minor fire-setting children were clustered. Results disclosed a more primitively organized personality structure on the part of severe fire setters. This personality structure was poorly defended against expressions of aggressive or sexual impulses. (BB)
Descriptors: Aggression, At Risk Persons, Behavior Disorders, Child Welfare
