Maltreatment in Early Childhood: Tools for Research-Based Intervention

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Detect and put a stop to child abuse! For mental health professionals, social workers, legal professionals, and policy makers, Maltreatment in Early Childhood: Tools for Research-Based Intervention examines strategies and ideas for professional training in child protection in the United States. Derived from presentations at the San Diego Conference Responding to Child Maltreatment, this book... Read more

Detect and put a stop to child abuse!

For mental health professionals, social workers, legal professionals, and policy makers, Maltreatment in Early Childhood: Tools for Research-Based Intervention examines strategies and ideas for professional training in child protection in the United States. Derived from presentations at the San Diego Conference Responding to Child Maltreatment, this book addresses current assessment issues, the intersection of child maltreatment and other social problems, the history of child protection, and the intricacies of courtroom testimonies, and provides guidance for case management. Through insight into research and case studies, Maltreatment in Early Childhood explores effective approaches to child-friendly services, multivictim cases, therapy, and victim recantation to help you assist sexually abused children or children who have witnessed domestic abuse.

Addressing a variety of challenges that face all those involved with youth in need of assistance due to abuse, this informative book examines why children of different racial identities may display different secret-keeping behavior, and presents a variety of approaches that encourage clients to talk about their situation.

Maltreatment in Early Childhood explores child abuse from a historical and political context, and discusses key issues relating to all facets of this social problem, including:

understanding the pros and cons of asking children to recall their experiences through specific types of questions, such as invitational questions and less preferred questions, which may or may not reveal true answers
deciding if the Validity Checklist, the second part of the Analysis procedure, is able to determine truthfulness of allegations in child sexual abuse cases
testing the efficacy of the model designed at the National Children's Advocacy Center (NCAC), which may be used to validate abuse and determine if children's statements are accurate
overcoming difficulties in the child protection system, including the probability of multiple interviews and potential contamination of children's narratives by a variety of sources, to produce fair evaluations and successful prosecutions

With tables and charts that will help you easily explore research findings, Maltreatment in Early Childhood provides you with the information you need in order to determine the truth of children's statements, how to present statements in court, and how to affect changes that will protect and assist victims of childhood sexual abuse.

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About the Contributors
Introduction
Child Maltreatment and Protection in the United States
Interviewing Techniques
Secret-Keeping Behaviors in Black and White Children as a Function of Interviewer Race, Racial Identity, and Risk for Abuse
Questioning Children Who May Have Been Sexually Abused: An Integration of Research into Practice
Statement Validity Analysis: Its Application to a Sample of Dutch Children Who May Have Been Sexually Abused
Forensic Issues
Addressing Challenges and Controversies in Child Sexual Abuse Interviewing: The Forensic Evaluation Protocol and Research Project
Victim Recantation in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: A Team Approach to Prevention, Investigation, and Trial
Overcoming Obstacles to Just Evaluation and Successful Prosecution of Multivictim Cases
Child Abuse and Divorce: Competing Priorities and Agendas and Practical Suggestions
Intervention in Child Maltreatment Cases
Sandtray Play with Traumatized Children: A Comparison Study
Multiple Risks for Children Exposed to Parental Violence: Family Factors, Psychological Maltreatment, and Trauma
Women with Children in Violent Relationships: The Choice of Leaving May Bring the Consequence of Custodial Challenge
Index
Reference Notes Included

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Robin Vanderlaan (Author) , Kathleen Coulborn Faller (Author)

Maltreatment in Early Childhood Tools for Research-Based Intervention

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