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British Journal of Social Work 2006 36(5):743-760; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch419
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.

Disabled Children, Maltreatment and Attachment

David Howe

David Howe worked as a child-care officer and social worker before taking up his current post at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. He has research and teaching interests in social work theory, adoption, child abuse and neglect, and developmental attachment theory.

Correspondence to Professor David Howe, School of Social Work and Psychosocial Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK. E-mail: d.howe{at}uea.ac.uk

Two bodies of literature on children with disabilities are identified and described. One recognizes an association between disability and maltreatment. The other finds an association between children with a disability and insecure attachments. The present paper seeks a theoretical integration between these two research traditions. The model generated examines the dynamics that affect a child with a disability’s attachment classification and risk of being maltreated in terms of a transaction between both parental and child factors. In the case of children with certain types of disability, unresolved parental states of mind with respect to attachment are seen as a risk factor for maltreatment. Implications for prevention, support and treatment are considered.

Keywords: disabled children, abuse, neglect, attachment


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