"Child maltreatment: An ecological integration": Comment on Jay Belsky.

Argues that J. Belsky's (see record 1980-12117-001) ecological framework of child maltreatment (CHM) and his search for necessary and sufficient conditions for CHM are based on several erroneous assumptions, including the beliefs that CHM is a discrete entity, that all CHM results from the same causative process, and that statistical techniques that improve prediction should be emphasized. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)