Early childhood maltreatment and profiles of resilience among child welfare-involved children

• DOI: 10.1017/s0954579421001851
• Publication Date: 2022-02-07T10:45:26Z
• Authors: Susan Yoon; Fei Pei; Jessica Logan; Nathan Helsabeck; Sherry Hamby; Natasha Slesnick
• Keywords: Male; Adolescent; Depression; 4. Education; Emotions; 05 social sciences; Child Welfare; Resilience, Psychological; Article; 3. Good health; Child, Preschool; Humans; Female; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences; Child Abuse; Child; 10. No inequality

Given the high burden of child maltreatment, there is an urgent need to know more about resilient functioning among those who have experienced maltreatment. The aims study were to: 1) identify distinct profiles resilience across cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social domains in young children involved welfare system; 2) examine maltreatment characteristics family protective factors relation identified profiles. A secondary analysis was conducted using data from National Survey Child Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW-II). Latent profile performed on a sample 827 aged 3-5 years (46% girls, Mean age = 3.96). Three identified: low cognitive (24%); emotional behavioral (20%); 3) multidomain (56%). Caregiver stimulation, no out-of-home placement, higher caregiver education level, older age, being girl associated with profile. findings provide empirical support for multifaceted nature suggest that practitioners help achieve optimal balanced development by assessing, identifying, targeting which struggle obtain competence.