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The highly anticipated Ending Child Abuse: New Efforts in Prevention, Investigation, and Training presents an exciting vision: to end or significantly reduce child abuse. Respected social scientists and legal scholars discuss empirically sound short- and long- term multidisciplinary strategies that can be implemented in our society. Innovative and well-established concepts and approaches are clearly presented, such as specialized education, rational preventative methods, effective investigation and prosecution strategies, and the analysis of factors that influence law enforcement investigations and child abuse prevention efforts.
Several obstacles stand in the way of the elimination of child abuse, such as the failure to investigate most child abuse reports, inadequate training of frontline child protection professionals, lack of financial resources, and the dilemma that child abuse is not addressed at the youngest ages. Ending Child Abuse: New Efforts in Prevention, Investigation, and Training tackles these problems and others with practical guidelines and aggressive creative strategies that can be applied to every community in the United States. This collection is impeccably referenced and soundly supported with research.
Ending Child Abuse: New Efforts in Prevention, Investigation, and Training discusses:
- implementation of a model curriculum in child advocacy for undergraduate and graduate institutions
- forensic interview training
- extensive education of the nation's child protection professionals
- development and funding of prevention programs at the community level
- educational reforms of Montclair State University in New Jersey designed to better prepare professionals who advocate for children
- research-based interview techniques with best practice guidelines
- possible broader social and system-level reforms
- vertical prosecution of child abuse caseswith a model for its operation
Ending Child Abuse: New Efforts in Prevention, Investigation, and Training is an ambitious eye-opening source perfect for social services professionals, mental health professionals, practitioners, researchers, educators, students, and medical and legal professionals who deal with child abuse and children's welfare.
Autorentext
Victor I. Vieth, Bette L. Bottoms, Alison Perona
Zusammenfassung
Rehabilitation provides a core concept around which to organise support, intervention and care for people with impairments in memory and other cognitive functions. This book introduces a conceptual framework and rationale for the application of a neuropsychological rehabilitation approach for people with dementia, helping them to manage, bypass or overcome these problems and experience optimum well-being.Methods and techniques of cognitive rehabilitation are described and the process of goal-setting is discussed in detail, showing how effective strategies may be linked to form an individualised, goal-oriented approach to intervention. The application of a rehabilitation approach in real-life contexts is explored, demonstrating the role and value of neuropsychological rehabilitation within a holistic, psychotherapeutic framework of care and support.This overview of the neuropsychological rehabilitation approach to dementia care will be of great interest to psychologists as well as to those studying or practising in the area.
Inhalt
Part 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Ending Child Abuse: Introducing a Collection of New Perspectives and Practical Techniques, Victor I. Vieth, Bette L. Bottoms, Alison R. Perona; Part 2 ARTICLES; Chapter 2 Unto the Third Generation: A Call to End Child Abuse in the United States Within 120 Years, Victor I. Vieth; Chapter 3 What We Know-and Don't Know-About Preventing Child Maltreatment, Sharon G. Portwood; Chapter 4 Research-Based Guidelines for Child Forensic Interviews, Alison R. Perona, Bette L. Bottoms, Erin Sorenson; Chapter 5 Children First: National Model for the Vertical Prosecution of Cases Involving Murdered and Physically Abused Children, David M. Williams; Chapter 6 The Master of Arts in Child Advocacy: A Contribution to an Emerging Discipline, Robert D. McCormick; Part 3 CONCLUSION; Chapter 7 Ending Child Abuse, David L. Chadwick;