Overview
- Is the second in a new, dynamic and ongoing series on the extremely important topic of child maltreatment
- Examines the many challenges posed by the complexity of child abuse and neglect
- Gives readers insight into the current state of the issues as well as future directions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Child Maltreatment (MALT, volume 2)
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Child Maltreatment: Why Does It Occur?
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Child Maltreatment: What Are the Consequences?
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Child Maltreatment: What Can and Should We Do About It?
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Keywords
- Child and Social Neglect
- Complexity of Child Abuse and Child Neglect
- Current Issues in Physical Abuse and Child Sexual Abuse
- Disproportionality and Disparities in Child Welfare
- Empirically Based Treatments for Maltreated Children
- Evidence Based Treatment
- Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment
- Judicial Issues in Child Maltreatment
- Maltreatment Prevention
- Neurobiological Consequences of Neglect and Abuse
- Poverty and Child Maltreatment
- Prevention of Child Maltreatment
- Trends in Child Abuse Reporting
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jill E. Korbin, Ph.D. is Associate Dean, Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Schubert Center for Child Studies, and Co-Director of the Childhood Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Korbin earned her Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her awards include the Margaret Mead Award (1986) from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology; a Congressional Science Fellowship (1985-86 in the Office of Senator Bill Bradley) through the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Research in Child Development; the Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at Case Western Reserve University (1992); and a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award (2005). Korbin served on the National Research Council’s Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Institute of Medicine’s Panel on Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide. Korbin served for multiple years on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), and as an Associate Editor, Book Review Editor, or Editorial Board Member for Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal. Korbin has published numerous articles on child maltreatment in relationship to culture and context, and edited the first volume on culture and child maltreatment, Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1981, University of California Press.) Korbin’s research interests include culture and human development; cultural, medical and psychological anthropology; neighborhood, community, and contextual influences on children and families; child maltreatment; and child and adolescent well-being.
Richard D. Krugman, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He served as Directorof the C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect from 1981-1992, and has gained international prominence in the field of child abuse. Dr. Krugman is a graduate of Princeton University and earned his medical degree at New York University School of Medicine. A board-certified pediatrician, he did his internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Following a two-year appointment in the early 1970s with the Public Health Service at the National Institute of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Krugman joined the CU faculty in 1973. He went back to the Washington area in 1980 as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and served for a year as a legislative assistant in the office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger of Minnesota. He has earned many honors in the field of child abuse and neglect, and headed the U.S. Advisory Board of Child Abuse and neglect from 1988-1991. Dr. Krugman is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and has authored over 100 original papers, chapters, editorials and four books and stepped down after 15 years as Editor-in-Chief of Child Abuse and Neglect: the International Journal in 2001.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Child Maltreatment
Editors: Jill E. Korbin, Richard D. Krugman
Series Title: Child Maltreatment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7208-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0230-8Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7208-3Published: 26 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-9701
Series E-ISSN: 2211-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 588
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Child and School Psychology