Book cover for Understanding child abuse and neglect
Description
This best-selling text offers a comprehensive look at child maltreatment, incorporating history, case vignettes, and the author's own experience as a child protection worker. The author covers the history of child welfare, gives an overview of functional and dysfunctional families, and contrasts healthy child development with development hampered by abuse and neglect. In addition,Child Abuse and Neglectexplains case management procedures and focuses on how various professionals become involved in the child protection process and how treatment is undertaken. The text concludes with a discussion of prevention and a consideration of the future.
Publisher Pearson Education
ISBN10 0205503268
ISBN13 9780205503261
Number of Pages 459
File Size DL-430MB
Shelf Number HZ874
Grade Range
Ages 18 - 99
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download