
Key Benefit: A comprehensive look at child maltreatment - Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect, 9/e provides a comprehensive look at children's services. Key Topics: Understand the effect that various services will have on children...




A textbook for a course within a program of protective or social services education. Reviews the history, effects, symptoms, and incidence of child abuse and neglect; suggests ways of combating it; outlines models of treatment; explores the experiences of adult survivors; and...





Every ten seconds a child is being abused or neglected. But while child abuse and neglect are not new, the problem has become monumental in today's society. But why? Perhaps we live in a more violent society, or maybe the child protection system is not working. This book explores...


