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Neglect

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Child maltreatment; Child neglect; Neglected children

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Neglect is a type of maltreatment which occurs when a child’s basic needs are not met.

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Neglect may include failure to provide educational, emotional, and/or physical necessities [1]. Educational neglect may include failure to enroll a child in school or ignoring special educational needs. Emotional neglect may include failure to provide adequate psychological support, failure to provide affection, failure to remove a child from situations of domestic violence, and/or failure to provide mental health care. Physical neglect consists of failure to provide shelter, abandonment, malnutrition, inadequate supervision, and/or failure to provide medical attention. Consideration must be made to a child’s culture and socioeconomic status regarding failure to provide education, emotional, medical, or physical needs [1, 2]. Neglect may also occur in the presence of other forms of maltreatment such as emotional,...

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  1. Child Abuse & Neglect. (2008). Child Welfare Information Gateway. Retrieved October 30, 2008, from http://www.childwelfare.gov/can/

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  1. Psychology, Humboldt State University, 1 Harpst Street, Arcata, CA, 95521, USA

    Lindsay Weymouth

  2. Department of Psychology, Humboldt State University, 1 Harpst Street, Arcata, CA, 95521, USA

    Tasha R. Howe

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  1. Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center, 230 South 500 East, Suite 100, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84102, USA

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  2. Department of Psychology MS 2C6, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA

    Jack A. Naglieri Ph.D. (Professor of Psychology) (Professor of Psychology)

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Weymouth, L., Howe, T.R. (2011). Neglect. In: Goldstein, S., Naglieri, J.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_1926

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