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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 Neglect explains 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.
TITLE: Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect
AUTHOR: Cynthia Crosson-Tower
SKU: 9780205503261
PUBLISHER: Pearson Education (US)
DATE PUBLISHED: 17/05/2007
PLACE PUBLISHED: United States
PAGES: 464
BINDING: Paperback / softback
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 178 mm x 235 mm
WEIGHT: 615 gr