Child Physical Abuse: Current Evidence, Clinical Practice, and Policy Directions

• Main Authors: Hinds, Tanya S. (Author), Giardino, Angelo P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pediatrics.; Well-being.; Children.; Social policy.; Medicine & Public Health.; Child Well-being.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.

This eye-opening monograph challenges professionals across disciplines to take a more thorough and focused approach to addressing child physical abuse at the practice and policy levels. Positing child physical abuse as a public health crisis (as opposed to a more vague “social” one), the authors use...