Handbook of child maltreatment / Jill E. Korbin, Richard D. Krugman, editors ; Sarah Miller-Fellows, assistant editor.

This Handbook examines core questions still remaining in the field of child maltreatment. It addresses major challenges in child maltreatment work, starting with the question of what child abuse and neglect is exactly. It then goes on to examine why maltreatment occurs and what its consequences are....

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Other Authors: Korbin, Jill E. (Editor), Krugman, Richard D., 1942- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2014]
Series:Child maltreatment (Springer (Firm)) ; v. 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jill E. Korbin and Richard D. Krugman
  • Part I. Child maltreatment : what is it?
  • Chapter 1: Trends in child abuse reporting / Andrea J. Sedlak and Raquel T. Ellis
  • Chapter 2: Child neglect : challenges and controversies / Laura J. Proctor and Howard Dubowitz
  • Chapter 3: Current issues in physical abuse / Vincent J. Palusci
  • Chapter 4: Child sexual abuse : the history, current state of the art and the challenges for the future : a pediatric perspective / Astrid Heppenstall Heger
  • Chapter 5: Fatal child abuse / Scott D. Krugman and Wendy G. Lane
  • Part II. Child maltreatment : why does it occur?
  • Chapter 6: A multidimensional view of continuity in intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment / Sara R. Bezenski, Tuppett M. Yates, and Byron Egeland
  • Chapter 7: Poverty and child maltreatment / Brett Drake and Melissa Jonson-Reid
  • Chapter 8: The evolving understanding of disproportionality and disparities in child welfare / Alan J. Dettlaff
  • Chapter 9: Child maltreatment and disabilities : increased risk? / Angelo Giardino, Eileen R. Giardino, and Reena Isaac
  • Chapter 10: Addressing intimate partner violence and child maltreatment : challenges and opportunities / Jeanne L. Alhusen, Grace W.K. Ho, Kamala F. Smith, and Jacqueline C. Campbell
  • Part III. Child maltreatment : what are the consequences?
  • Chapter 11: Neurobiological consequences of neglect and abuse / Kristin Bernard, Teresa Lind, and Mary Dozier
  • Chapter 12: Longterm consequences of child maltreatment / Cathy Spatz Widom
  • Part IV. Child maltreatment : what can and should we do about it?
  • Chapter 13: Beyond maltreatment : developing support for children in multiproblem families / Michael S. Wald
  • Prevention
  • Chapter 14: Sustaining progress in preventing child maltreatment : a transformative challenge / Deborah Daro and Genevieve Benedetti
  • Chapter 15: Community-level prevention of child maltreatment / Beth E. Molnar and William R. Beardslee
  • Chapter 16: The public health approach to the prevention of child maltreatment / Patricia Y. Hashima
  • Chapter 17: Strong communities : a community-wide approach to prevention of child maltreatment / Gary B. Melton
  • Chapter 18: Child maltreatment prevention : the problem of resource allocation / Fred H. Wulczyn, Sara Feldman, Sarah McCue Horwitz, and Lily Alpert
  • Treatment and intervention
  • Chapter 19: Empirically based treatments for maltreated children : a developmental perspective / Susan G. Timmer and Anthony J. Urquiza
  • Chapter 20: Psychosocial consequences and treatments for maltreated children / Monica M. Fitzgerald and Lucy Berliner
  • Chapter 21: Foster care and child well-being : a promise whose time has come / Heather N. Taussig and Tali Raviv
  • Chapter 22: Addressing child maltreatment through mutual support and self-help among parents / Arlene Bowers Andrews
  • Chapter 23: Nonoffending mothers of sexually abused children / Viola Vaughan-Eden
  • Chapter 24: Beyond investigations : differential response in child protection services / Tamara Fuller
  • Chapter 25: Decisions to protect children : a decision making ecology / John D. Fluke, Donald Baumann, Len Dalgleish, and Homer D. Kern
  • Legal perspectives
  • Chapter 26: Using law to identify and manage child maltreatment / Ben Mathews and Donald C. Bross
  • Chapter 27: Judicial issues in child maltreatment / Jesse R. Russell, Nancy Miller, and Michael Nash
  • Chapter 28: Law enforcement's evolving mission to protect children / Stephanie C. Stronks Knapp
  • Part V. Child maltreatment : is it the same everywhere?
  • Chapter 29: Child maltreatment as a problem in international law / Robin Kimbrough-Melton
  • Chapter 30: Child maltreatment and global mental health : biocultural perspectives / Brandon A. Kohrt.