title: Multilevel developmental approaches to understanding the effects of child maltreatment: Recent advances and future challenges.
abstract: Recent research in the field of child maltreatment has begun to shed new light on the emergence of health problems in children by emphasizing the responsiveness of developmental processes to children's environmental and biological contexts. Here, I highlight recent trends in the field with an emphasis on the effects of early life stress across multiple levels of developmental domains.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison.
authors.forename: Seth D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Pollak
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology