Child Neglect

Description

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.

Reviews

Great text!

by Texas Psychologist from Austin, TX on 2006-02-20
Crossan-Towers is a fabulous introduction to child abuse and neglect for undergraduates and graduates students alike.

great book

by C. faragalla from Downey, CA on 2009-02-07
this is a great book if you're interested in understanding child abuse. the best part of the book is that it shows u examples

Description

Child abuse and neglect are examined in this new book - the latest research, what it entails, and how to recognize and report it. Federal law mandates the reporting of suspected child maltreatment by many professionals. This book will appeal to those who one day find themselves in the role of a mandated reporter. Engaging learning tools are sprinkled throughout: Focus on Research boxes provide an in-depth look at research or methodologies. Case Examples encourage debate about the gray areas in the field. Legal Examples and Focus on Law sections explain judicial rulings including guides for locating relevant state statutes. Discussion questions promote dialogue and deepen understanding of the material. Bold faced key terms defined when first introduced also appear in the book's glossary. The book opens with the background on child maltreatment including its history, an overview of the research, and the risk factors. Details about mandated reporting are also explored. Different forms of maltreatment - physical abuse, neglect, psychological maltreatment, sexual abuse, fetal abuse, and Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome - are then examined. Incidence estimates and consequences for each type of maltreatment are provided. Legal issues including forensic interviewing are then reviewed. The book concludes with an example of what happens to a child after a report is filed along with suggestions for preventing child maltreatment. Intended as a text for courses in Child Abuse and Neglect taught in departments of psychology, human development, education, social work, and medicine, this book will also be an invaluable resource to workers who are mandated reporters of child maltreatment and/or anyone interested in the problem.

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child abuse and neglect

by Karen P. Street from on 2010-07-31
This is an excellent textbook that should be read by everyone who is interested in child welfare.

Description

This book offers a clear and concise summary of the current issues in the child abuse and neglect field. Examining the major theories used to explain child abuse and neglect, this book explores cultural diversity issues, definitions of abuse, maltreatment, and neglect. Also considered are the social and psychological factors related to abuse, treatment issues, describes prevention and policy issues, and explores various professional roles. For anyone interested in social work.

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A Valuable Tool

by Julie Edgar from USA on 2000-09-25
This book is educational and informative. It is for anyone involved in the social service field, and for anyone who works with child abuse and neglect on any level. I personally found the book to be an excellent reference tool, and solid teaching material.This book lays out the definitions, current issues, and treatments surrounding child abuse and neglect. It also presents various models and perspectives and sums up different social theories; enhancing its title of "multidisciplinary approaches". Although the book discusses the need for a mutidisciplinary team approach,(and even devotes a chapter to the issue) it could have emphasized this to a greater degree and focused more upon conflict resolution among team members. Perhaps the authors could have created a uniform system for setting up a team of professionals with every suspected child abuse case from every point of entry within the group of professionals typically involved with a team. Also guidelines that could be adopted by the social service agencies involved. Maybe that will become the focus for another book.

Description

PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN provides guidance to teachers, child care and education administrators, health care providers, social service workers, and all who work with young children on how to recognize and understand child abuse and neglect. The text enables readers not only to identify abuse and neglect, but also to develop an understanding of the many facets of child maltreatment, find practical ideas to help children and their families, and ultimately reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect.

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Protecting Our Children

by Bethany from on 2009-03-28
This is a great book for students who need a little more information on childhood abuse and neglect. The text itself goes into great detail about procedures for educators and how to identify possible abuse/neglect in families, children and the teaching profession. The text is both inspiring and encouraging as it provides much needed information on how to help a child or family in need. The author's themselves provide great resources and a passion to helping young children in need, which you can find as you read the text. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is in need of information on this very difficult topic.