Handbook of Child Maltreatment

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Korbin, Jill E. (Editor), Krugman, Richard D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Child Maltreatment, Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy, 2
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Medical research.; Quality of life.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Child and School Psychology.
• Physical Description: XXVI, 588 p. 17 illus., 11 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789400772083
• ISSN: 2211-9701 ;

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.