Handbook of Child Maltreatment

Introduction: Jill E. Korbin and Richard D. Krugman.- PART I. CHILD MALTREATMENT: WHAT IS IT?.- Chapter 1: Trends in Child Abuse Reporting; Andrea Sedlak and Raquel Ellis.- Chapter 2: Child Neglect: Challenges and Controversies; Laura Proctor and Howard Dubowitz.- Chapter 3: Current Issues in Physical Abuse; Vincent Palusci.- Chapter 4: Child Sexual Abuse: The History, Current State of the Art and the Challenges for the Future - a Pediatric Perspective; Astrid Heger.- Chapter 5: Fatal Child Abuse; Scott Krugman and Wendy Lane.- PART II. CHILD MALTREATMENT: WHY DOES IT OCCUR?.- Chapter 6: A Multidimensional View of Continuity in Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment: Sara Bezenski, Tuppett Yates and Byron Egeland.- Chapter 7: Poverty and Child Maltreatment; F. Brett Drake and Melissa Jonson-Reid.- Chapter 8: The Evolving Understanding of Disproportionality and Disparities in Child Welfare; Alan Dettlaff.- Chapter 9: Child Maltreatment and Disabilities: Increased Risk? Angelo Giardino, Eileen R. Giardino and Reena Isaac.- Chapter 10: Addressing Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment: Challenges and Opportunities; Jeanne Alhusen, Grace Ho, Kamala Smith and Jacqueline Campbell.- PART III. CHILD MALTREATMENT: WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES?.- Chapter 11: Neurobiological Consequences of Neglect and Abuse; Kristin Bernard, Teresa Lind and Mary Dozier.- Chapter 12: Longterm Consequences of Child Maltreatment; Cathy Spatz Widom.- PART IV. CHILD MALTREATMENT: WHAT CAN AND SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IT?.- Chapter 13: Beyond Maltreatment: Developing Support for Children in Multiproblem Families; Michael Wald.- Prevention.- Chapter 14: Sustaining Progress in Preventing Child Maltreatment: A Transformative Challenge; Deborah Daro and Genevieve Benedetti.- Chapter 15: Community-Level Prevention of Child Maltreatment; Beth Molnar and William Beardslee.- Chapter 16: The Public Health Approach to the Prevention of Child Maltreatment; Patricia Hashima.- Chapter 17: Strong Communities: A Community-wide Approach to Prevention of Child Maltreatment; Gary Melton.- Chapter 18: Prevention of Child Maltreatment: The Problem of Resource Allocation; Fred Wulczyn, Sara Feldman, Sarah McCue Horwitz and Lily Alpert.-Treatment and Intervention.- Chapter 19: Empirically Based Treatments for Maltreated Children: A Developmental Perspective; Susan Timmer and Anthony Urquiza.- Chapter 20: Psychosocial Consequences and Treatments for Maltreated Children; Monica Fitzgerald and Lucy Berliner.- Chapter 21: Foster Care and Child Well-Being: A Promise Whose Time Has Come; Heather Taussig and Tali Raviv.- Chapter 22: Addressing Child Maltreatment through Mutual Support and Self-Help Among Parents; Arlene Andrews.- Chapter 23: Nonoffending Mothers of Sexually Abused Children; Viola Vaughan-Eden.- Chapter 24: Beyond Investigations: Differential Response in Child Protection Services; Tamara Fuller.- Chapter 25: Decisions to Protect Children: A Decision Making Ecology; John Fluke, Donald Baumann, Len Dalgleish and Homer Kern.- Legal Perspectives.- Chapter 26: Using Law to Identify and Manage Child Maltreatment; Ben Mathews and Donald Bross.- Chapter 27: Judicial Issues in Child Maltreatment; Jesse Russell, Nancy Miller and Michael Nash.- Chapter 28: Law Enforcement's Evolving Mission to Protect Children; Stephanie Stronks Knapp.- PART V. CHILD MALTREATMENT: IS IT THE SAME EVERYWHERE?.- Chapter 29: Child Maltreatment as a Problem in International Law; Robin Kimbrough-Melton.- Chapter 30: Child Maltreatment and Global Mental Health: Biocultural Perspectives; Brandon Kohrt.