Child Abuse, Child Development, Social Policy

List of contents

Introduction, Irving E. Sigel
Child Maltreatment Research and Social Policy: The Neglected Nexus, Dante Cicchetti and Sheree L. Toth
Defining Child Maltreatment: The Interface Between Policy and Research, Douglas Barnett, Jody Todd Manly, and Dante Cicchetti
Developmental Research and Legal Policy: Toward a Two-Way Street, Ross A. Thompson
The Suggestibility of Children's Recollections, Stephen J, Ceci, Michelle DeSimone Leichtman, Mary Elizabeth Putnick, and Narina Nunez Nightingale
Optimizing Children's Testimony: Research and Social Policy Issues Concerning Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse, Gail S. Goodman, Jennifer M. Batterman-Faunce, and Robert Kenney
Children in Dangerous Environments: Child Maltreatment in the Context of Community Violence, James Garbarino, Kathleen Kostelny, and Jane Grady
Child Maltreatment: Implications for Policy from Cross-Cultural Research, Kathleen J. Sternberg
Child Maltreatment in the African-American Community, Melvin N. Wilson and Elizabeth W. Saft
A Family-Relational Perspective on Maltreating Families: Parallel Processes Across Systems and Social Policy Implications, Paul W. Howes and Dante Cicchetti
Child Maltreatment and School Adaptation: Problems and Promises, Dante Cicchetti, Sheree L. Toth, and Kevin Hennessy
Child Maltreatment Research: Implications for Program Design, Deborah Daro
Child Abuse Intervention Research: Implications for Policy, David A. Wolfe
Child Maltreatment: Where Do We Go from Here in Our Treatment of Victims?, Sheree L. Toth and Dante Cicchetti
Author Index
Subject Index

Product details

• Assisted by: Dante Cicchetti (Editor), Cicchetti Dante (Editor), Sheree Toth (Editor), Toth Sheree L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1993
• EAN: 9781567500424
• ISBN: 978-1-56750-042-4
• No. of pages: 1
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Child welfare, Child welfare and youth services, Psychology: Developmental