The Maltreatment of Children

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction — a child speaks

   • Myre Sim

   Pages 1-8

3. Child abuse and neglect — medical aspects

   • Christine E. Cooper

   Pages 9-68

4. Radiological and pathological aspects of the battered child syndrome

   • J. M. Cameron

   Pages 69-81

5. Management of the problem

   • A. White Franklin

   Pages 83-94

6. The Epidemiology of Child Abuse

   • J. E. Oliver

   Pages 95-119

7. The Extent of Child Abuse

   • J. E. Oliver, Jane Cox, Anne Buchanan

   Pages 121-174

8. The psychiatrist’s viewpoint

   • P. D. Scott

   Pages 175-203

9. The psychological aspects of child abuse

   • D. R. Henry

   Pages 205-219

10. The needs of children

    • Mia Kellmer Pringle

    Pages 221-243

11. Child abuse, neglect and deprivation and the family

    • J. Jacobs

    Pages 245-316

12. Medical-legal and societal problems involving children—child prostitution, child pornography and drug-related abuse; recommended legislation

    • Judianne Densen-Gerber, S. F. Hutchinson

    Pages 317-350

13. The contributions of the social agencies and the social worker

    • Sheila M. Noble

    Pages 351-391

14. The emergence of the child as a legal entity

    • D. Ford

    Pages 393-413

15. Back Matter

    Pages 415-452

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The maltreatment of children is an issue that has always been with us and civilized societies provide a range of services both social and medical to care for the children and families afflicted. In recent years, greater attention has been drawn to the medical aspects by competent authorities in the fields of forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry, epidemiological psychiatry, child psychiatry and family psychiatry; as well as the social aspects by those child welfare and child care agencies who have the difficult and distasteful task of removing children, with the help of the courts, from parents who can abuse them and are not able to care for them adequately. A multitude of social agencies, whose range of ac­ tivities involve both the care and, where possible, the social betterment of afflicted families are now involved. Not least in importance is an increase in our global knowledge to help in the prevention or better treatment of these problems. This means more informa­ tion on familial and genetic factors in human central nervous system develop­ ment in its broadest sense. This would include how the central nervous system originates, mediates and controls the build up, speed of development and im­ pulsive release, mastery and direction of aggressive drives and impulses. Very little is so far known about these factors.

• attention
• care
• central nervous system
• child
• children
• development
• epidemiological
• epidemiology
• maltreatment
• medicine
• nervous system
• prevention
• psychiatry
• social work
• treatment

• Royal Ottawa Hospital, Canada

  Selwyn M. Smith

• Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada

  Selwyn M. Smith

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