The APSAC Handbook on Child MaltreatmentRegardless of your discipline, if you share the common task of addressing the complex issues involved in effectively responding to child maltreatment, this handbook compiles the knowledge you need! A resource of unparalleled thoroughness, The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment provides critical information for those who dedicate their working lives to alleviating the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect. Written in engaging but straightforward language and committed to practical application, this comprehensive handbook covers physical and sexual abuse, all forms of neglect, and psychological maltreatment. Experts in a variety of specialized areas have designed each chapter to inform professionals in mental health, law, medicine, law enforcement, and child protective services of the most current empirical research and literature available as well as strategies for intervention and prevention. Ensure that everyone affected by child maltreatment receives the best possible professional response. Use The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment to continue your professional education, as a reference guide, or in training programs. |
Contents
OVERVIEW ASPECTS OF CHILD MALTREATMENT | 1 |
Child Physical Abuse | 21 |
Sexual Abuse of Children | 51 |
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Abuse & Neglect abuse and neglect Abuse of Children adolescents adult agencies allegations American Humane Association APSAC assessment associated attachment theory battered child syndrome Brassard Briere chil child abuse Child Development child maltreatment child molesters child neglect child protection child sexual abuse child victim child welfare childhood Cicchetti client Clinical Psychology cognitive court criminal Crittenden cultural developmental dren effects Egeland emotional Erickson evaluation evidence expert testimony factors Finkelhor impact incest injury interactions Interpersonal Violence intervention interview investigation involved issues Journal of Interpersonal law enforcement ment mental health nonabused parents Pediatrics physical abuse Posttraumatic stress disorder prevention problems professionals programs Psychiatry psychological maltreatment rates reporting laws response risk ritualistic abuse Saywitz sexually abused children social specific stress studies suggest supra note survivors symptoms syndrome therapeutic therapist therapy tion tive trauma treatment witnesses Wolock York