A Fine Line: When Discipline Becomes Child Abuse

By David A. Sabatino

Book Overview

The author explores the difference between disciplinary attitudes and practices that promote a child's self-esteem and self-control and those that lead to child abuse and domestic violence. As an aid to counsellors and social workers, the book sets guidelines for identifying and effectively intervening in family situations in which discipline is either excessive and ineffective or completely nonexistent. For parents, it is a source of positive and preventative strategies, as well as providing information that can help them pinpoint factors in their own lives that are suggestive of abusive physical and emotional reactions to children.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830635661
• ISBN13: 9780830635665
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Tab Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.3"