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Allen B., (2011). The Use and Abuse of Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice With Maltreated Children, Part I: Diagnosis and Assessment. Trauma Violence Abuse January 2011 12: 3-12

1. The Attachment Theory suggests that the primary motivation of infant behavior was not feeding or gratification as purported by prevailing theories, but instead the motivation comes from what?
2. What is likely to occur in a child as a direct result of an inconsistent, rejecting, and/or maltreating caregiver?
3. What is Reactive Detachment Disorder and what is its significance in understanding and responding to child maltreatment?
4. Why is it important from an attachment perspective to denote problematic child-care giver relationships early on in a child’s life?

Lang C. M., Sharma-Patel K. (2011). The Relation Between Childhood Maltreatment and Self-Injury: A Review of the Literature on Conceptualization and Intervention. Trauma Violence Abuse January 2011 12: 23-37 doi:10.1177/1524838010386975

1. What are the four categories of self injury?
2. What are the most common forms of self injury?
3. What do experts feel is the primary function or motivation of self injury?
4. At approximately what age is self injury initiated?