Stopping Child Maltreatment Before it Starts: Emerging Horizons in Early Home Visitation Services

By Neil B. Guterman

Early prevention of child maltreatment is most commonly delivered through home visitation services, with the goal of promoting a positive start in parenting to avert potential child abuse and neglect. Stopping Child Maltreatment Before It Starts introduces best practice principles for early home visiting, examining the contexts from which these strategies arise.

An essential text for child welfare courses, this book will also appeal to practitioners and policy makers in the child abuse and neglect field.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761913122
• ISBN13: 9780761913122
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.3"