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Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The long-term human and fiscal consequences of child abuse and neglect are not relegated to the victims themselves-they also impact their families, future relationships, and society. In 1993, the National Research Council (NRC) issued the report, Under-standing Child Abuse and Neglect, which provided an overview of the research on child abuse and neglect. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research updates the 1993 report and provides new recommendations to respond to this public health challenge. According to this report, while there has been gr...
Approximately 450 entries to terms unique to field of child abuse and neglect and to such terms that also have wider applications. Terms selected on basis of frequency of use in practice and in professional literature. Entry gives terms, acronym, explanatory definitions, and cross reference. Contains list of acronyms.
Approximately 450 entries to terms unique to field of child abuse and neglect and to such terms that also have wider applications. Terms selected on basis of frequency of use in practice and in professional literature. Entry gives terms, acronym, explanatory definitions, and cross reference. Contains list of acronyms.
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. Next, it turns to prevention, treatment and intervention, as well as legal perspectives. The book studies the issue from the perspective of the broader international and cross-cultural human experience. Its aim is to review what is known, but even more importantly, to examine what remains to be known to make progress in helping abused children, their families, and their communities.