Child Maltreatment
Subtitle: Theory and Research on the Causes and Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect
Contributors: Dante Cicchetti (Editor); Vicki Carlson (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 30, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9780521379694
Subjects: Child Abuse; Pediatrics; Mental Illness; Medical; Psychology; Child abuse Child abuse; Medical / Pediatrics; Medical-Pediatrics; Psychology & Psychiatry / Mental Illness
First sentence: To begin a book such as this with a chapter on defining child maltreatment is at once an indication that the definition of the very subject of the book is problematic and that these problems can be resolved.