Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect

by Cynthia Crosson-Tower

Book Overview

Key Benefit: A comprehensive look at child maltreatment - Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect, 9/e provides a comprehensive look at children's services. Key Topics: Understand the effect that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205769152
• ISBN13: 9780205769155
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

great book

this is a great book if you're interested in understanding child abuse. the best part of the book is that it shows u examples

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Great text!

Crossan-Towers is a fabulous introduction to child abuse and neglect for undergraduates and graduates students alike.

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The book (that I received very quickly), looked like it came right off the shelf...just like new. Thank you soooooo much!

The very definition of comprehensive!

I own the 1993 version of this text and can honestly say that it is the most comprehensive single writing on child abuse that I have encountered. Chapters of the 1993 printing include:The Maltreatment of Children from a Historical PerspectiveThe Family: Roles, Responsibilities, and RightsMaltreatment and the Developing ChildThe Physical Abuse of Childrenthe Neglect of Childrenthe Emotional Maltreatment of Childrenthe Sexual Abuse of ChildrenIncest: Familial AbuseExtrafamilial Sexual Abuse, Misuse, and ExploitationIntervention: Reporting and InvestigationIntervention: Case Management and Roles of Other ProfessionalsThe Legal Response to Child Abuse and NeglectTreatment: Physical Abuse and NeglectTreatment: Sexual AbuseFoster Care as a Theapeutic ToolThe Social Worker and the SystemAdults Abused as ChildrenPreventionToward a Better TomorrowThe author puts forth much valuable information which is clearly well researched. It is also written in a common-sense format. If you are looking for one book on everything child abuse, this should be it.