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Book SynopsisWhen we think of child abuse, we imagine several different forms of harmful parenting and injuries to children. Most are not visible to the naked eye, but can be seen if you look more deeply. X-rays can detect fractures and other imaging can find internal injury and bleeding, but most maltreated children have more long-lasting harm that reveals itself through behavioural and emotional maladjustment, developmental delay, sadness, and other destructive behaviours later in childhood, adolescence and into adulthood. These injuries to their personality, sense of self, relationship to society and mental health change the trajectory of their lives and dim their potential, with social and financial costs for safety, treatment and their lost personal growth. We think of these as affecting everybody's children and that the responsibility lies with everyone to respond. This is why we put together this book: to address prevention from a number of perspectives and a variety of professions. We hope that it successfully brings together a number of disciplines and perspectives to address child abuse and neglect among the world's families, governments and cultures. We hope that those reading these chapters will realise that there are replicable best practices that can be reliably implemented based on child and family experiences and needs rather than single approaches designed to attack single forms of maltreatment, and we look forward to the day that books like these are not needed.
Table of ContentsDedication; Introduction: The Expanding Case for Prevention; The Case for Prevention: Epidemiology and Impact of Child Abuse and Neglect; The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Prevention of Child Maltreatment in the United States; Federal Funding and The Prevention of Child Maltreatment; Pathways to Prevention: Prevention Zones as a Strategy for Making Progress in Child Maltreatment Prevention; Economic Supports for Families; Home Visiting to Prevent Maltreatment; No Hit Zones in Context: Changing Norms through Planned Change; Using Technology in Child Welfare and Child Abuse Prevention; The Media and Child Abuse Prevention; Creating a National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect; Infant Crying and the Prevention of Abusive Head Trauma; Eliminating Corporal Punishment; Disability and Abuse: Some International Aspects; A Critical Analysis of Efforts to Prevent the Sexual Abuse of Youth; Child Abuse Prevention in the Faith-Based Environment; Adolescent Abuse: Selective Issues Including Prevention; Preventing Athlete Harm in Youth Sports; Prevention of Human Trafficking in Children; Child Fatality Review and Programs to Prevent Child Maltreatment Deaths; Health-based Interventions; Preventing Child Maltreatment Through Medical-Legal Partnership; Prevention Services Through Child Protective Services; Does Mandatory Reporting Have a Place in a More Prevention-Focused Child Maltreatment System?; About the editors; About the Department of Pediatrics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital, New York, New York, United States; About the Child Advocacy Law Clinic, School of Law, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States; About the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States; About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel; Index.
