Prevention of Child Maltreatment

The future of child maltreatment prevention.

MALTREATMENT (CHILD) The Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

The maltreatment of children and adolescents is a problem that reaches well beyond the victims and perpetrators directly affected by these behaviours. It affects the lives of professionals who are charged to care for the health and well-being of families and children, as well as the government officials and private citizens who are concerned with the quality of life in their communities. Child ...

Strategic Direction for Child Maltreatment Prevention

CM is a serious problem in the United States and around the world. 2 It can be defined as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or caregiver that results in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child. Acts of commission are deliberate and intentional, however, harm to a child may or may not be the intended consequence. Physical, sexual, and psychological ab...

Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Child Maltreatment and Child Maltreatment Prevention

This paper presents an agent‐based model that simulates the dynamics of child maltreatment and child maltreatment prevention. The developed model follows the principles of complex systems science and explicitly models a community and its families with multi‐level factors across the social ecology. Each agent includes behavioral/cognitive modeling to account for the behavioral/cognitive process ...

An Agent-Based Model for Studying Child Maltreatment and Child Maltreatment Prevention

This paper presents an agent-based model that simulates the dynamics of child maltreatment and child maltreatment prevention. The developed model follows the principles of complex systems science and explicitly models a community and its families with multi-level factors and interconnections across the social ecology. This makes it possible to experiment how different factors and prevention str...