Suzanne Salzinger

TL;DR: Assessment of a number of risk factors may permit health professionals to identify parents and children who are at high risk for child maltreatment, facilitating appropriate implementation of prevention and treatment interventions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the past decade's research on the risk for exposure to community violence and the effects of exposure on children's and adolescents' functioning is presented, incorporating the studies into a developmental-ecological framework that takes into account five domains of context.

TL;DR: For a small but important subgroup of youth, high levels of exposure to community violence were associated with more child- and parent-reported aggressive behavior and less child-reported psychological distress.

TL;DR: A causal model is formulated for the thesis that in inner-city youth exposed to high levels of violence, cognitions that normalize violence mitigate affective effects of exposure while increasing risk for violent behavior, thus perpetuating violence in the very process of adapting to it psychologically.

TL;DR: The roles of social support and coping as intervening processes between exposure to community violence and internalizing symptoms were examined longitudinally among a community sample of middle school students in the inner city, finding that decreased guardian support and increased use of defensive and confrontational coping were generally associated with more symptoms for boys exposed tocommunity violence.