Handbook of Child Maltreatment

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....

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Korbin, Jill E. (Editor), Krugman, Richard D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
Series:Child Maltreatment, Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:XXVI, 588 p. 17 illus., 11 illus. in color online resource
ISBN:9789400772083