The Child Abusers
1st Edition
033522752X
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9780335227525
© 2004 | Published: May 16, 2004
* How can we improve child protection?* What can we learn from recent child abuse cases and research?* Who are the child abusers? * Who kills children?Child abuse horrifies the public, engenders fierce debate in the media, and creates anxiety in even…
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- The child protection controversy
- Types of abuse: Incidence, overlap, psychiatric effects and prevention
- Within-family abusers
- Extra-family abusers
- Some special problems for child protection teams
- The societal abuser: Rediscovering the cycle of poverty
- The extremes of child abuse: Who kills children and the psychiatric-child abuse interface
- Professional iatrogenesis: The 'helping hand strikes again'
- Strategies for reducing child abuse and sexual offending: Processing and therapy
- Bibliography
- Name index
- Subject index.