Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I History and definition
- Part II Parental and contextual influences on maltreatment
- Part III The developmental consequences of child maltreatment
- 13 How research on child maltreatment has informed the study of child development: perspectives from developmental psychopathology
- 14 Child maltreatment and attachment theory
- 15 Patterns of maternal behavior among infants at risk for abuse: relations with infant attachment behavior and infant development at 12 months of age
- 16 Finding order in disorganization: lessons from research on maltreated infants' attachments to their caregivers
- 17 Peer relations in maltreated children
- 18 The effects of maltreatment on development during early childhood: recent studies and their theoretical, clinical, and policy implications
- 19 Social cognition in maltreated children
- 20 The effects of maltreatment on the development of young children
- 21 Troubled youth, troubled families: the dynamics of adolescent maltreatment
- 22 Child abuse, delinquency, and violent criminality
- 23 The prevention of maltreatment
- Name index
- Subject index
23 - The prevention of maltreatment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I History and definition
- Part II Parental and contextual influences on maltreatment
- Part III The developmental consequences of child maltreatment
- 13 How research on child maltreatment has informed the study of child development: perspectives from developmental psychopathology
- 14 Child maltreatment and attachment theory
- 15 Patterns of maternal behavior among infants at risk for abuse: relations with infant attachment behavior and infant development at 12 months of age
- 16 Finding order in disorganization: lessons from research on maltreated infants' attachments to their caregivers
- 17 Peer relations in maltreated children
- 18 The effects of maltreatment on development during early childhood: recent studies and their theoretical, clinical, and policy implications
- 19 Social cognition in maltreated children
- 20 The effects of maltreatment on the development of young children
- 21 Troubled youth, troubled families: the dynamics of adolescent maltreatment
- 22 Child abuse, delinquency, and violent criminality
- 23 The prevention of maltreatment
- Name index
- Subject index
Summary
Introduction
During the last 20 years, public concern about child abuse and neglect has grown dramatically (Garbarino and Stocking, 1980; Gerbner, Ross, and Zigler, 1980; Kempe, Silverman, Steele, Droegemuller, and Silver, 1962). Within the past decade, a National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect has been established by the federal government, a National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse has been created in the private sector, and the media routinely convey the message that abuse and neglect are preventable. Two recent surveys have suggested a sharp increase in child abuse and neglect reports in the last six years (American Humane Association, 1985; National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1981). These reports indicate that hundreds of thousands of children and families are in crisis and emphasize the importance of preventive programs and research efforts in this area (U.S. Senate, 1983). In view of these developments, it is disturbing that little is known about the prevention of maltreatment (Heifer, 1982).
A variety of program models and community strategies have been proposed, including the enhancement of parent-newborn contact and interaction (Garbarino, 1980; Klaus and Kennel, 1982), parenting education (Gelles and Cornell, 1985), telephone hotlines (Johnston, 1976), crisis or respite care of the child (Cohn, 1981), the provision of home-health visitors (Kempe, 1976), the enhancement of natural community helpers (Collins, 1981; Pancoast, 1981), the provision of increased employment opportunities and a guaranteed minimum income (Gil, 1974), the reduction of society's acceptance of violence (Gelles, 1984), as well as more comprehensive, multifaceted programs based on ecological theory (Lutzker and Rice, 1984; Lutzker, Frame, and Rice, 1982).
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- Child MaltreatmentTheory and Research on the Causes and Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect, pp. 722 - 763Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989
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