Four Commentaries: How We Can Better Protect Children from Abuse and Neglect

Four Commentaries: How We Can Better Protect Children From Abuse and Neglect

How we can better protect children from abuse and neglect.

The handicapped child and child abuse.

For a group of children with handicaps, growth and development are also affected by abuse or neglect. Our understanding of the problems of the abused, handicapped child emerges from experience with 37 children with cerebral palsy who have been maltreated, coupled with a review of the literature in related areas. We identify the following four problems as crucial to the study of abuse and neglec...

Decision-making in child abuse and neglect.

Social attachment theory can be of value in examining the wide variety of abuse and neglect situations that come to the attention of authorities. We consider evaluation of the parent-child relationship as a crucial part of the judicial process. We have suggested parameters that can be used to evaluate the relationship. We have outlined some of the more common distortions in this relationship th...

DEV ELOPMENT, VALIDATION AND RELIABILITY OF CHILD ABUSE SELF REPORT SCALE (CASRS) IN IRANIAN STUDENTS

Diagnosing and assessing child abuse is a critical and difficult process in clinical psychology, because this phenomenon has several negative behavioral and psychological consequences on victims. The aim of this research is to create a scale for assessing child abuse and neglect. Through a multiclustral sampling, 3042 secondary school students (boys and girls) were selected to fill (1) a li...