Overview
- Enables readers to gain an overview of child physical abuse, which affects at least 200,000 children each year in the USA
- Identifies the main approaches to conceptualizing the etiology, presentation, treatment, and prevention of child physical abuse
- Summarizes the latest studies related to how best to evaluate and prevent child physical abuse
- Equips readers with concepts, models, frameworks, and evidence that help professionals and the lay public in understanding and responding to child physical abuse
- Reinforces basic principles in the evaluation and prevention of child physical abuse
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Child Health (BRIEFSCHILD)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
Keywords
- child abuse
- child maltreatment
- child victimization
- child physical abuse
- child homicide
- fatal abuse
- battered child syndrome
- child abuse and neglect
- abusive parenting
- adverse childhood experiences
- child protection
- corporal punishment
- child fatalities
- child abuse prevention
- domestic violence
- family violence
- community health
- physical abuse
About this book
This eye-opening monograph challenges professionals across disciplines to take a more thorough and focused approach to addressing child physical abuse at the practice and policy levels. Positing child physical abuse as a public health crisis (as opposed to a more vague “social” one), the authors use empirical findings and clinical insights to advocate for wide-scale reforms in screening, assessment, responses, treatment, and prevention. The book’s social/ecological perspective delves into root causes of physical maltreatment, analyzes the role of family and community risk and support factors, and notes forms of discomfort keeping many professionals from meeting the issue head-on. From there, chapters describe coordinated multidisciplinary efforts for intervention and prevention with the potential to avert all forms of child abuse.
Included in the coverage:
· Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
· The non-verbal child: obtaining a history for caregiver(s)
· Clinical perspectives on multidisciplinary collaboration
- Corporal punishment and risk for child physical abuse
- Intimate partner violence (IPV) and risk for child physical abuse
- Evolution of child maltreatment prevention
- Complementary dynamic prevention approach
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, is senior vice president/chief quality officer at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas. He also is a professor of Pediatrics and section chief of Academic General Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Giardino is a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Medical Quality, and sub-boarded in Child Abuse Pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics. He is a recipient of the Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Faculty Excellence Award, and is a board member for several national and regional boards. Dr. Giardino's academic accomplishments include publishing several textbooks on child abuse and neglect and medical education, presenting on a variety of pediatric topics at national and regional conferences, and publishing numerous chapters on education, mentoring, child maltreatment, and quality improvement. He also is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Child Physical Abuse: Current Evidence, Clinical Practice, and Policy Directions
Authors: Tanya S. Hinds, Angelo P. Giardino
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61103-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61102-0Published: 23 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61103-7Published: 16 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 153
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pediatrics, Child Well-being, Children, Youth and Family Policy