Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect
This best-selling text offers a comprehensive look at child maltreatment and incorporates history, case vignettes, and the author's own experience as a child protection worker.\ The author covers the history of child welfare, and neglect. In addition, Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect explains case management procedures and focuses on how various professionals become involved in the child protection process and how treatment is undertaken. The text concludes with an overview of functional...
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This best-selling text offers a comprehensive look at child maltreatment and incorporates history, case vignettes, and the author's own experience as a child protection worker. The author covers the history of child welfare, and neglect. In addition, Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect explains case management procedures and focuses on how various professionals become involved in the child protection process and how treatment is undertaken. The text concludes with an overview of functional and dysfunctional families, and contrasts healthy child development with development hampered by abuse sion of prevention and a consideration of the future. Booknews Explores many aspects of child abuse and neglect including the history, different types of abuse, intervention, treatment, therapeutic options, and prevention. Last updated in 1999, the new edition reflects recent research on neglect, as well as child sexual abuse aided by the Internet. Suitable for undergraduate or graduate courses in social work, psychology, sociology, and counseling and education programs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
1The maltreatment of children from a historical perspective12The family : roles, responsibilities, and rights243Maltreatment and the developing child474The neglect of children675The physical abuse of children966The sexual abuse of children1217Incest : familial abuse1518Extrafamilial sexual abuse, misuse, and exploitation1809Psychological maltreatment of children21210Intervention : reporting and investigation22311Intervention : case management and roles of other professionals25012The legal response to child abuse and neglect26813Treatment : physical abuse and neglect28914Treatment : sexual abuse31615Foster care as a therapeutic tool34216The social worker and the system35217Adults abused as children36918Prevention40119Toward a better tomorrow417
\ BooknewsExplores many aspects of child abuse and neglect including the history, different types of abuse, intervention, treatment, therapeutic options, and prevention. Last updated in 1999, the new edition reflects recent research on neglect, as well as child sexual abuse aided by the Internet. Suitable for undergraduate or graduate courses in social work, psychology, sociology, and counseling and education programs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
