Book Review: Preventing physical and emotional abuse of children

Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1979). Infant-mother attachment. American Psychiatrist, 34, 932-937.

American Psychiatric Association (1987). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (3rd ed. rev. pp. 335-358). Washington: Author.

Bowlby, J. (1958). The nature of the child's tie to his mother. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 39, 350-373.

Bowlby, J. (1988). Developmental psychiatry comes of age. American Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 1-10.

Bradley, E. J. & Peters, R. D. (1991). Physically abusive and nonabusive mothers' perception of parenting and child behavior. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 61, 455-460.

Cichetti, D. (1988). The organization and coherence of socio-emotional, cognitive, and representational development: Illustrations through a developmental psychopathology perspective on Down syndrome and child maltreatment. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 36, 259-366.

Editorial. Cycles of violence and child physical abuse. Lancet, 1991, 338, 88-89.

Kestenbaum, R. , Farber, E. A. , & Sroufe, L. A. (1989). Individual differences in empathy among preschoolers: Relation to attachment history. New Directions for Child Development, 44, 51-64.

Kolko, D. J. (1992). Characteristics of child victims of physical violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 7, 244-276.

Main, W. , & Weston, D. R. (1981). The quality of the toddler's relationship to mother and to father: Related to conflict behavior and the readiness to establish new relationships. Child Development, 52, 932-940.

Milner, J. S. , & Chilamkurti, C. (1991). Physical child abuse perpetrator characteristics. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 6, 345-366.

Sroufe, L. A. (1979). The coherence of individual development: Early care, attachment, and subsequent developmental issues. American Psychologist, 34, 834-841.

Thomson, G. (1986). Agoraphobia: The etiology and treatment of an attachment/separation disorder. Transactional Analysis Journal, 16, 11-17.