22.0 Child Maltreatment and Later Substance Abuse: Mechanisms of Risk and Opportunities for Intervention

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (10) ◽  
pp. S291-S292
Author(s):  
Naimah Weinberg ◽  
Cheryl Anne Boyce ◽  
Marilyn B. Benoit
Author(s):  
Dante Cicchetti ◽  
Fred A. Rogosch

In this chapter, a developmental psychopathology conceptualization of child maltreatment is presented as an overarching heuristic with relevance for understanding the development of alcohol and substance use and abuse. This chapter also provides illustrations from research on how child maltreatment contributes to problem substance use in adolescence. Child maltreatment represents an extreme failure of the caregiving environment to provide many of the expectable experiences necessary to facilitate normal developmental processes. Maltreatment ushers in a probabilistic epigenesis for children characterized by an increased likelihood of failure and disruption in the successful resolution of major developmental tasks. These repeated disruptions lead to compromised developmental organizations of diverse developmental systems that increase the probability of the emergence of maladaptation, psychopathology, and substance abuse as negative transactions between the child and the environment ensue. Person-centered personality organizations and genetic moderation of maltreatment risk on substance use outcomes are also highlighted.


2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 799-819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haley R. Zettler ◽  
Amaia Iratzoqui

Although child maltreatment, mental illness, and substance abuse are significantly correlated, only the relationship between mental illness and substance abuse has been documented as potentially affecting the implementation of criminal justice policy. The current study considers the influence of child maltreatment histories in addition to mental health and substance abuse issues in predicting the success of participants in a large drug court in the Southwestern United States. Results indicated that child maltreatment was not predictive of overall court failure. However, child maltreatment had an indirect effect on type of failure, through its effects on mental illness and substance abuse diagnoses. Implications for these findings within drug court and for general criminal justice policy are discussed.


2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Kmett Danielson ◽  
Ananda B. Amstadter ◽  
Ruth E. Dangelmaier ◽  
Heidi S. Resnick ◽  
Benjamin E. Saunders ◽  
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1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Famularo ◽  
Robert Kinscherff ◽  
Terence Fenton

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