Title: The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment
Description: Regardless of your discipline, if you share the common task of addressing the complex issues involved in effectively responding to child maltreatment, this handbook compiles the knowledge you need!.

A resource of unparalleled thoroughness, The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment provides critical information for those who dedicate their working lives to alleviating the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect. Written in engaging but straightforward language and committed to practical application, this comprehensive handbook covers physical and sexual abuse, all forms of neglect, and psychological maltreatment.

Experts in a variety of specialized areas have designed each chapter to inform professionals in mental health, law, medicine, law enforcement, and child protective services of the most current empirical research and literature available as well as strategies for intervention and prevention.

Ensure that everyone affected by child maltreatment receives the best possible professional response. Use The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment to continue your professional education, as a reference guide, or in training programs.
Subjects: Child abuse, Handbooks, manuals, Prevention, Child welfare, Prevention & control