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Review
. 2024 Dec;36(5):2499-2511.
doi: 10.1017/S0954579424000865. Epub 2024 Apr 22.

Insights into child abuse and neglect: Findings from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation

Marissa D Nivison  1 , Madelyn H Labella  2 , K Lee Raby  3 , Jenalee R Doom  4 , Jodi Martin  5 , William F Johnson  6 , Osnat Zamir  7 , Michelle M Englund  1 , Jeffry A Simpson  6   8 , Elizabeth A Carlson  1 , Glenn I Roisman  1
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Insights into child abuse and neglect: Findings from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation

Marissa D Nivison et al. Dev Psychopathol. 2024 Dec.

Abstract

The Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation (MLSRA) is a landmark prospective, longitudinal study of human development focused on a sample of mothers experiencing poverty and their firstborn children. Although the MLSRA pioneered a number of important topics in the area of social and emotional development, it began with the more specific goal of examining the antecedents of child maltreatment. From that foundation and for more than 40 years, the study has produced a significant body of research on the origins, sequelae, and measurement of childhood abuse and neglect. The principal objectives of this report are to document the early history of the MLSRA and its contributions to the study of child maltreatment and to review and summarize results from the recently updated childhood abuse and neglect coding of the cohort, with particular emphasis on findings related to adult adjustment. While doing so, we highlight key themes and contributions from Dr Dante Cicchetti's body of research and developmental psychopathology perspective to the MLSRA, a project launched during his tenure as a graduate student at the University of Minnesota.

Keywords: Child abuse and neglect; maltreament; prospective longitudinal study.

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