Community-level factors and child maltreatment in a suburban...

Social Work Research;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......neighborhood structural factors and child maltreatment report rates in a suburban county...replication of a method used in a study of child maltreatment in Cleveland, Ohio. Rates of child maltreatment were calculated for the county's...

Occurrence of Maltreatment in Active Duty Military and Nonmilitary...

Military Medicine;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......study compared the occurrence of child maltreatment in military and nonmilitary populations...Neglect Data System. All cases of child maltreatment substantiated from January 1, 2000...rate of occurrence of substantiated child maltreatment appears to be lower in military than...

GOV. EASLEY PROCLAIMS APRIL AS 'CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH'

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 6, 2007 ;     317 words ......following proclamation: WHEREAS, child maltreatment is a community problem and finding...throughout the community; and WHEREAS, child maltreatment occurs when parents find themselves...year; and WHEREAS, the majority of child maltreatment cases stem from situations and conditions...

National Experts in Child Maltreatment Educate Professionals at Local...

PR Newswire;  October 9, 1998 ;     307 words ......NRCMC (Northeast Regional Child Maltreatment Conference) brings together...from a broad range of child maltreatment disciplines to explore...with issues involving child maltreatment that professionals of...

Classification of the Severity of U.S. Army and Civilian Reports of Child...

Military Medicine;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......compares reports of the severity of child maltreatment for the U.S. Army and a civilian...879,000 substantiated victims of child maltreatment in the United States, a rate of 12...differences between civilian and military child maltreatment cases.7 Most studies have compared...

The importance of degree versus type of maltreatment: a cluster analysis...

The Journal of Psychology;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......What researchers rarely ask is whether child maltreatment is a unidimensional or a multi-dimensional...facet of a single underlying construct: child maltreatment? Child maltreatment research has developed considerably in...

Psychopathology, peer relations, and school functioning of maltreated...

Children & Schools;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......effectiveness. Key words: child abuse; child maltreatment; child mental health; child neglect...must be aware of the sequelae of child maltreatment to identify it and implement appropriate...perhaps is axiomatic to state that child maltreatment has negative consequences for ...

Preventing child maltreatment: An evidence-based update

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......for recording child maltreatment. [1] In addition, child maltreatment definitions vary...limitations. Child maltreatment includes five...Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect...incidence of child maltreatment involving two...females (12.8%) ...

(book reviews)

Journal of Comparative Family Studies;  June 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ......for the prevention and treatment of child maltreatment Theories of Child Abuse and Neglect...approach to understanding and treating child maltreatment. In the introduction the authors...understanding of th scope and complexity of child maltreatment. Theories of Child Abuse and ...

NEW CHILD MALTREATMENT STATISTICS SHOW CONTINUING DECLINE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 11, 2006 ;     430 words ......following news release: Several forms of child maltreatment showed a marked decline nationwide...generation. He cites more awareness about child maltreatment, improved parenting practices, and...would not be reflected in the new child maltreatment statistics. The new data are ...

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR TO SPEAK AT CLARK UNIVERSITY ABOUT...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 12, 2006 ;     353 words ......release: "Neighborhood Influences on Child Maltreatment," a special lecture at Clark University...numerous articles on culture and child maltreatment, including her edited book, "Child...examine the relationship of culture and child maltreatment. She also has published and ...

LATEST NATIONWIDE CHILD MALTREATMENT STATISTICS SHOW CONTINUING DECLINE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 3, 2007 ;     358 words ......following news release: Several forms of child maltreatment decreased from 2004 to 2005, adding...and police, more awareness about child maltreatment, improved parenting practices, and...htm. For further information about child maltreatment declines, please see: " Why Have...

Teachers and mandated reporters of child maltreatment: Comparison with...

Children & Schools;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......educators. This study compared reports of child maltreatment made by education personnel with...poor training teachers receive about child maltreatment and their relatively low status among...mandated reporters. Key words: abuse; child maltreatment; mandated reporting; school ...

Understanding Child Maltreatment: An Ecological and Developmental...

Social Work;  January 1, 2007 ;     596 words ...Understanding Child Maltreatment: An Ecological and Developmental...largely satisfying analysis of child maltreatment. After providing a normative...assessment framework that views child maltreatment in a complex web of transacting...

Health Educators and Child Maltreatment: A Curious Silence.

Journal of School Health;  August 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......and social consequences of nonfatal child maltreatment, it is difficult to comprehend why...curriculum. Conducting education about child maltreatment is consistent with the concept of...neglect? Why is instruction about child maltreatment the exception rather than the norm...