Understanding Child Maltreatment: An Ecological and Developmental Perspective

by Maria Scannapieco and Kelli Connell-Carrick

Book Overview

Child maltreatment professionals from all disciplines struggle to find better ways of understanding and treating the families and children affected by maltreatment. Since the mid-1960s, the "battered child syndrome," and recent high-profile abuse cases, a plethora of research and literature on child maltreatment has emerged, yet this is the first volume to offer a comprehensive integrated analysis for understanding, assessing, and treating child maltreatment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195156781
• ISBN13: 9780195156782
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"