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9780816040605

The Encyclopedia of Child Abuse

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  • ISBN13:

    9780816040605

  • ISBN10:

    0816040605

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-12-01
  • Publisher: Facts on File
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Summary

More than five hundred entries provide an overview of the problem of child abuse and its extent across the United States and around the world.

Author Biography

Robin E. Clark, Ph.D., is associate professor of community and family medicine and of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire Judith Freeman Clark, an Episcopal priest, is the author of eight books. Her work has appeared in various periodicals, including Yankee magazine and Readers' Digest. Reverend Clark holds graduate degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and from Boston University Christine Adamec is a medical writer who has written frequently on the subjects of adoption and child abuse. A former member of the Florida Adoption Advisory Council, she has previously worked in social service administration

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Child Abuse--An Overview xi
Entries A-Z
1(262)
Appendixes 263(54)
Bibliography 317(10)
Index 327

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Excerpts

More than 3 million children are victims of child abuse each year. The task of preventing child abuse is difficult because maltreatment is not limited to physical violence but includes psychological and sexual abuse as well as neglect.
The Encyclopedia of Child Abuse, Second Edition provides an overview of this tragic issue. More than 500 A-to-Z entries cover every aspect of the problem—from psychological concerns to political and legal factors and from medical terms to sociological and educational considerations.
The second edition features new and expanded entries on:
Abandonment
Adopting abused or neglected children
Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997
Civil commitment laws
Family preservation
Kinship care
Megan's Law
Resilience of abused children
Sex offender registration
Teenage pregnancy
Plus, extensive appendixes that provide international statistics and list regional child abuse and neglect resource centers, state child protection agencies, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, state child abuse statutes, and trends in child abuse funding.

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