Child Maltreatment: An Introduction
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This is a comprehensive text, providing an introduction to current knowledge about various types of violence against children. The author deals with sexual, physical, and emotional child abuse, neglect and the effects of witnessing abuse. The focus is on abuse perpetrated by family members and non-family intimates (the most frequent perpetrators), as well as abuse by strangers. An Instructor's Manual is available to adopters, who request the manual on their departments' or organizations' letterhead. Booknews A text for undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, providing a comprehensive introduction to the etiology, prevalence, treatment, and prevention of child maltreatment. Focus is on abuse perpetrated by family members and nonfamily intimates, who are the most frequent perpetrators, with additional material on abuse by strangers. Incorporates coverage on aspects such as sexual and emotional abuse, physical abuse, and neglect, with high-profile case studies, interviews with experts in the field, and chapter summaries. Legal and cross-cultural perspectives round out material. Paper edition (unseen) $37.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)
History and Definitions of Child MaltreatmentThe Study of Child Maltreatment Theoretical and Methodological IssuesPhysical Child AbuseChild Sexual AbuseChild Neglect and Psychological MaltreatmentOther Forms of Child MaltreatmentLooking toward the Future
