Children and violence; a developmental perspective

A trend of increasing victimization of women and children in situations of war and community violence has emerged in the 20th century. Children are also exposed to violence in their own families, as witnesses of parental violence, targets of physical abuse, and recipients of TV violence. As regards the direct physical effects of violence, children's injuries are no different from those of adults, while indirect effects comprise increases in, for instance, malnutrition. Psychological effects of danger include post-traumatic stress disorder and maladaptations, such as aggression, cognitive impairment, and truncated moral development. Different scenes of violence are interrelated. The cycle of violence lives its own life, but breaking up the cycle is not a hopeless task

Aggression · Cognition · Cycle of violence · Developmental psychology · Domestic violence · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Perspective (graphical · Poison control · Psychiatry · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Medicine · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health

• Stability of aggression over time and generations

  L Rowell Huesmann, Leonard D Eron et al.•Developmental Psychology•1984

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