Study Of Family Interaction Lead To New Understanding Of Abusive Parents
Beginning of paper
Researchers at the University of Toronto have taken important
steps toward producing a profile of an abusive parent. Prof. Gary
Walters and doctoral student Lynn Oldershaw of the Department of
Psychology have developed a system to characterize parents who
physically abuse their ch ....
Middle of paper
.... in disciplinary strategies because abuse most commonly occurs
when the parent wants the child to comply. "It's a question of trying to
determine which type of parent produces which type of child or which
type of child elicits which type of parental behaviour," explains
Oldershaw.
As a result of their work, Walters and Oldershaw have identified
distinct categories of abusive parents and their children.
'Harsh/intrusive' mothers are excessively harsh and constantly ....
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