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.

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....