Emerging Directions in Child Maltreatment Research: Perspectives on Theory, Research, Practice, and PolicyISBN: 978-1-4051-6723-9
Paperback
228 pages
November 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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The volume has great potential to encourage better research,
practice, law, and policy. It will inform scientists across various
sub-fields of psychology about the most current knowledge in the
discipline and the limits of that knowledge. It will encourage
psychologists to think creatively about the issues from
psychological, sociological, medical, and legal perspectives. It
will bring balance within the current socio-political context of
child maltreatment research, focusing research and policy on
important issues that arise in actual child abuse cases rather than
issues that surround controversial false child maltreatment
allegations.
This volume demonstrates how new research findings can (a) provide practitioners with information that can support treatment efforts, (b) spawn better future programs of research, and (c) directly aid new prevention efforts and better social policy and law. This information will advance psychologists’ collective understanding of child maltreatment.