This book provides the first comprehensive international coverage of key issues in mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect. The book draws on a collection of the foremost scholars in the field, as well as clinicians and practice-based experts, to explore the nature, history, impact and justifiability of mandatory reporting laws, their optimal form, legal and conceptual issues, and practical issues and challenges for reporters, professional educators and governments. Key issues in non-Western nations are also explored briefly to assess the potential of socio-legal responses sex...
This book provides the first comprehensive international coverage of key issues in mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect. The book draws on a...
This book addresses new avenues in child abuse prevention research that will expand our capacity to protect children. These new avenues result from the emergence of new research methods made possible through technologic advances, an understanding of the benefits of cross-disciplinary research and learning and the entrance of many young scholars in the field. The book explores what these avenues produce in terms of clarifying the complex problems that continue to limit our progress in addressing child maltreatment and promoting optimal child development. Specifically, the book showcases...
This book addresses new avenues in child abuse prevention research that will expand our capacity to protect children. These new avenues result from...
During the last several decades our understanding of child maltreatment has deepened. Early research focused on exploring its epidemiology, combined with trying to understand the nature of the maltreating parent and effects on the developing child. In the 1990s, the field began to understand maltreatment in the context of family systems and the role of parent-child relationships in the development of psychopathology. We also increased our understanding of the links between maltreatment, trauma, and mental health. Interventions were developed that targeted the quality of the parent-child...
During the last several decades our understanding of child maltreatment has deepened. Early research focused on exploring its epidemiology, combined w...
This handbook examines the many challenges posed by the complexity of child abuse and neglect. It explores why maltreatment occurs and its consequences as well as prevention, treatment and intervention, and legal perspectives.
This handbook examines the many challenges posed by the complexity of child abuse and neglect. It explores why maltreatment occurs and its consequence...
Exploring areas from the protection of street children to cultural proverbs related to child maltreatment, this volume examines issues both specific to the Ugandan contexts as well as broadly experienced in child maltreatment work in non-Euro-American countries.
Exploring areas from the protection of street children to cultural proverbs related to child maltreatment, this volume examines issues both specific t...
This volume provides a wide spectrum description analysis of the contemporary and well established child protection systems in a range of countries, such as Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Spain and the United States.
This volume provides a wide spectrum description analysis of the contemporary and well established child protection systems in a range of countries, s...
