Safeguarding Children from Emotional Maltreatment: What Works

by Anita Schrader, Jane Barlow

Overview

Emotional maltreatment is widespread and has a profoundly harmful effect on a child's development. The effects of abuse are often carried into adulthood, and emotionally abused children are more likely to experience a range of problems as adults including depression, substance misuse and eating disorders. This book sets out to identify 'what works' in preventing emotional maltreatment from recurring.

Since most emotional maltreatment takes place within the family home, involves the primary care-giver and reflects ongoing patterns of damaging parent-child interaction rather than isolated incidents, interventions directly targeting parent-child interactions are highlighted. The authors explore the available treatments, identifying which approaches work, who they work with and the limitations of each. Conclusions and recommendations based on the key findings are presented, including implications for practice and over-arching issues to be addressed.

Safeguarding Children from Emotional Maltreatment is essential reading for all practitioners working in the field of emotional abuse and neglect, including social workers, health visitors, community paediatricians and psychologists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857003645
Publisher:	Kingsley, Jessica Publishers
Publication date:	02/15/2010
Series:	Safeguarding Children Across Services
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Jane Barlow is Professor of Public Health in the Early Years. She is Director of the Warwick Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit (WIFWU), which provides training and research in innovative evidence-based methods of supporting parenting during pregnancy and the early years. Jane has also researched extensively on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at preventing and treating abuse and is a strong advocate of a public health approach to child protection. Dr Anita Schrader is Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and former director of the UK Consortium for Street Children.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. Section 1. Emotional Maltreatment and its Consequences. 1. Introduction. 2. What is Emotional Maltreatment? Section 2. Preventing the Occurrence of Emotional Maltreatment. 3. Population-Based Approaches. 4. Targeted Approaches. Section 3. Preventing the Recurrence of Emotional Maltreatment. 5. Parent-Focused Interventions. 6. Parent-and-Child-Focused Interventions. 7. Family-Focused Interventions. Section 4. What Needs To Be Done? 8. What Works to Prevent Emotional Maltreatment? 9. Implications for Practitioners and Policy-makers. References. Appendices. Index.

Editorial Reviews

The book is based on a systematic review of the literature using studies published since 1990 which evaluated parent or parent-child or family-focused interventions... It is fairly short and clearly written... would highly recommend it to both practitioners and policy makers.

Child Abuse Review