This book provides an interdisciplinary framework for school intervention into child and adolescent maltreatment, highlighting the unique potential for schools to identify and mitigate the long-term impacts of childhood trauma on children's educational well-being. Contributors e…
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"It is commonly acknowledged that sexual abuse of children is a grave and pervasive problem and that child molesters are predators who compulsively repeat their crimes and have little hope of cure. Yet as recently as twenty years ago many experts viewed the problem as a far less…
This examination of violence, through a focus on gender relations, demonstrates the relationship between research, theory, policy and practice, and proposes innovative courses of action to combat it.
This examination of violence, through a focus on gender relations, demonstrates the relationship between research, theory, policy and practice, and proposes innovative courses of action to combat it.
This exciting new book offers a survey of the field of child abuse and neglect from the perspective of modern developmental attachment theory. The book opens with an account of the theory and describes the ways in which attachment difficulties manifest themselves in children's b…
Understanding how children's minds form in the context of early caregiving relationships is critical to understanding child maltreatment and its consequences for longer term care. The author takes the most pressing problems facing child welfare practitioners today and uses moder…
Providing a framework for culturally competent practice with children and families in child maltreatment cases, this book offers vital knowledge and tools to help professionals from any background play a more positive, effective role in the lives of diverse children and families.
"This book provides a framework for culturally competent practice in child maltreatment cases. It offers vital knowledge and tools to help professionals from any background play a more positive, effective role in the lives of diverse children and families." "Authoritative and co…
This book aims to document and analyse the enduring involvement of children in the commercial sex trade in twentieth-century England. It uncovers new evidence to indicate the extent of under-age prostitution over this period, a much-neglected subject despite the increased visibi…
This book contains a comprehensive review of the current state of child neglect, combining research, theory and practice in order to promote awareness and suggest practical solutions.
Child neglect is at least as risky for children as child abuse. Less is known about child neglect than child abuse and interventions are often less effective. This book contains a comprehensive review of the current state of child neglect. Included are statistics regarding incid…
This book contains a comprehensive review of the current state of child neglect, combining research, theory and practice in order to promote awareness and suggest practical solutions.
