Preventing child abuse : critical roles and multiple perspectives / Vincent J. Palusci [and three others] editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palusci, Vincent J., editor.

Series:

Pediatrics, child and adolescent health.

Pediatrics, Child and Adolescent Health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child abuse--Prevention.

Child abuse.

Child welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

"When we think of child abuse, we imagine several different forms of harmful parenting and injuries to children. Most are not visible to the naked eye, but can be seen if you look more deeply. X-rays can detect fractures and other imaging can find internal injury and bleeding, but most maltreated children have more long-lasting harm that reveals itself through behavioral and emotional maladjustment, developmental delay, sadness, and other destructive behaviors later in childhood, adolescence and into adulthood. These injuries to their personality, sense of self, relationship to society and mental health change the trajectory of their lives and dim their potential, with social and financial costs for safety, treatment and their lost personal growth. We think of these as affecting everybody's children and that the responsibility lies with everyone to respond. This is why we put together this book: to address prevention from a number of perspectives and a variety of professions. We hope that it successfully brings together a number of disciplines and perspectives to address child abuse and neglect among the world's families, governments and cultures. We hope that those reading these chapters will realize that there are replicable best practices that can be reliably implemented based on child and family experiences and needs rather than single approaches designed to attack single forms of maltreatment, and we look forward to the day that books like these are not needed"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Section I: Introduction

Chapter 1

Introduction: The expanding case for prevention

Introduction

Levels of prevention

Universal strategies

Targeted problems and populations

Professional issues

Concluding thoughts

References

Chapter 2

The case for prevention: Epidemiology and impact of child abuse and neglect

Abstract

Abbreviations

Definitions

Incidence

Recurrence

Risk factors

The child

The family

The community and society

Factors by maltreatment type

Protective factors

Health Effects

Physical abuse

Corporal punishment

Sexual abuse

Adolescents and sex trafficking

Concluding remarks and future research

Section II: Universal strategies

Chapter 3

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child and the prevention of child maltreatment in the United States

Brief history

Ratification process

What the CRC does

Article 19

GC 13 and Child Maltreatment Prevention

Article 34

Child sex trafficking

Sex tourism

Engaging in illicit sexual act in foreign countries

Child pornography

Objections to the CRC

Conclusion

Chapter 4

Federal funding and the prevention of child maltreatment

Basic law

Direct prevention programs

CAPTA

Home visiting

Title IV-B

Indirect prevention programs

Paid family leave

Basic income

Child support

Temporary assistance for needy families

Food insecurity

SNAP

National School Lunch Program

WIC

Medical insurance

Medicaid

State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Affordable Care Act

Housing

Substance abuse and mental health

Chapter 5.

Pathways to prevention: Prevention Zones as a strategy for making progress in child maltreatment prevention

The past: Learning from our "failures"

The present: What does prevention research say?

Our 2019 semi-structured review of preventing serious child maltreatment

The future: Ideas to consider, including the Prevention Zones strategy

A promising strategy: Prevention Zones

Integrating healthcare to treat the environment and the patient

The importance of coordinating multi-approach, multi-sector solutions

Aligning policy with purpose

The power of definition

Ensure adequate funding

Ensure quality evaluation

Where we can go from here

Chapter 6

Economic supports for families

Public health prevention

Earned Income Tax Credit

Child care subsidies

Chapter 7

Home visiting to prevent maltreatment

History of home visiting

Home visiting as a child abuse prevention strategy

Theory of change/levers of change

Home visiting's success as a prevention tool

Workforce training and development

New York State's home visiting continuum

Regional approaches, initiatives, and themes

Federal and state policy and the future of home visiting

Chapter 8

No Hit Zones in context: Changing norms through planned change

We are not alone: No Hit Zones and the larger movement to end the hitting of children

Legal reforms

Academic research

Public health

Policy statements

Importance of childhood experiences

No Hit Zones and planned change

Quasi-stable equilibrium of hitting children

Starting point for change: Child as property, the accepted status quo.

The new normal: Changes that end the hitting of children

Strategies for bringing about change

Unfreezing hitting and power coercive strategies of change

Movement and rational empirical change strategies

Refreezing: Normative re-educative change strategies

Acknowledgment

Chapter 9

Using technology in child welfare and child abuse prevention

Big data and the data revolution

Big data and artificial intelligence

Big data

Artificial intelligence

Data linkage

Predictive analytics

Mobile technologies

Cloud and web-platforms

Advances in e-health, telemedicine, and GIS

The Internet of Things

Challenges

Overreliance on data and AI

Child rights

Ethical issues and protecting human subjects

Confidentiality

Professional and family acceptance

Other technologies and future directions

Social robots

Cyberbullying

Early identification of bruises

Virtual reality

Detecting and removing child sexual abuse victimization images

Women's safety

Chapter 10

The media and child maltreatment prevention

Media reporting about child maltreatment

Media ethics

Media and child protection policy

Social media

Helping the media get prevention right

Practical advice

Do you want to say anything?

Be proactive

Move from the reporter's story to yours

Take opportunities to educate

Tell a story

Interviews

Acknowledgments

Chapter 11

Creating a national foundation to end child abuse and neglect

C Henry Kempe and why child abuse is viewed as a "social" issue

The process of building a foundation

What is in a name?.

The best laid plans....no rollout of a new foundation is a straight line

Mission, vision and approach

The PSA campaigns

Funding research

Disruption papers

The search for resources

Can we bring the field together?

Section III: Targeted problems and populations

Chapter 12

Infant crying and the prevention of abusive head trauma

Why crying?

Program components

Period of PURPLE Crying

The Dias model

Challenges to prevention

Power to detect a positive outcome

Fidelity

Unexpected events: The Great Recession

Period of PURPLE Crying program development

North Carolina implementation (June 2009 to September 2012)

British Columbia implementation (January 2009 to December 2016)

Dias Program Model: Upper New York State

Dias Program Model: Lower New York State

Dias Program Model: Pennsylvania (January 2003 to December 2013)

Cost-benefits of prevention models

Commentary

Is the focus on crying too narrow?

The challenge of reaching fathers

Effectiveness for reducing physical abuse generally?

How much intervention is enough?

Is the cup half empty, or half full?

Chapter 13

Eliminating corporal punishment

Defining corporal punishment

Evidence challenging the punishment-abuse dichotomy

Implications for prevention

Strategies to change parents' pre-existing cognitive schemas

Mobilize research

Change laws

Strategies to change parents' misperceptions of children's behavior

Enhance emotion regulation skills

Strategies to change parents' attributions

Increase knowledge of child development

Strategies to increase parents' response repertoires

Build skills in problem solving

Chapter 14.

Disability and abuse: Some international aspects

Disability around the world

Disability and abuse around the world

Rights

Prevention

Chapter 15

A critical analysis of efforts to prevent the sexual abuse of youth

Safety education

Comprehensive prevention frameworks

Policies and practices to protect children

Decreasing the demand

Promising interventions

Pornography

Bystander interventions

Consent

Parent-focused prevention strategies

Community-focused prevention strategies

Chapter 16

Child abuse prevention in the faith-based environment

Abuse by clergy

Abuse in the home and community

Concerns unique to faith-based communities

Response and prevention efforts

US Catholic response and prevention efforts

Select Christian denominations' response and prevention efforts

Selected Jewish response and prevention efforts

Looking forward

Situational prevention approach

Recommendations

Chapter 17

Adolescent abuse: Selective issues including prevention

Incest

(Step)father-daughter incest

Brother-sister incest

Other examples of incest

Sibling abuse

Frequency of sibling abuse

Etiologic factors behind sibling abuse

Adolescent abuse: Concepts of management

Adolescent sexual perpetrator

Management of sexual offenders

Principles of prevention

Chapter 18

Preventing athlete harm in youth sports

Types and prevalence of youth harm in sports

Special considerations for underserved populations

Overview of strategies to prevent harm in youth sports.

Key sports prevention approaches and illustrative strategies.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5361-9696-7

OCLC:

1255224055