Prevention of Child Maltreatment: Developmental and Ecological PerspectivesDiane J. Willis, E. Wayne Holden, Mindy Rosenberg According to statistics there are close to 2 million cases of child abuse reported annually in the U.S. Deals with child abuse and prevention issues. Provides the reader with the beginning answers on the reduction of this problem through a comprehensive overview of both developmental and ecological perspectives, scientific insights and clinical experiences. |
Contents
Introduction and Historical | 1 |
The Prevention of Child Maltreatment in SchoolAge Children | 4 |
SECTION ONE A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE ON CHILD | 15 |
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Abuse & Neglect abuse and neglect abusive parents adolescent maltreatment Altemeier assessment attachment attachment theory behavioral parent training Belsky child abuse child abuse prevention Child Development child sexual abuse Children's Defense Fund Cicchetti clinical concepts context developmental Drotar ecological model effects Egeland enhance etiology evaluation failure to thrive Garbarino high-risk hospital identified impact incidence increase infant interactions investigations literature Lutzker marital maternal health mental health mothers Munchausen syndrome neglect and NOFT Newberger outcome parent-child Pediatrics percent perinatal physical abuse physicians potential predict pregnancy prenatal prenatal/perinatal period prevent child prevention efforts prevention of child prevention programs prevention strategies preventive interventions primary prevention problems professionals psychological quality of parenting rates relationship reporting laws risk factors secondary prevention sexual abuse prevention shaken baby syndrome skills social support specific stress studies subsequent child maltreatment suggested teenage tertiary prevention treatment variables York Zigler