Project Description
Practice Notes #24—Helping Maltreated Children Understand and Recognize Emotions, Fall 2015
Authors: A. Tseng, M. Mendez, T. LaLiberte
Over the past two decades, research has shown that maltreatment can disrupt a child’s ability to recognize and understand the emotions of others. These difficulties can lead to problems as children attempt to navigate their interpersonal relationships. Child welfare workers can better help children that have experienced abuse and neglect read emotional cues and build successful relationships if they are aware of how maltreatment can impact emotion-processing.
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Practice Notes #24 was created in partnership with The Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health (ITR). ITR advances quality research, evidence-based clinical training, and information dissemination focused on children’s mental health and development ages 0 to 18.
Practice Notes is published by the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. This issue was supported, in part, by grant #GRK%80888 from Minnesota Department of Human Service, Children and Family Services Division.
The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Center, School, College, University or their funding source.
