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Author Dubowitz, Dr. Howard

Title Handbook for Child Protection Practice
Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (705 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; Part I -- Reporting and Screening; Chapter 1 -- How do I Decide Whether to Accept a Report for a Child Protective Services Investigation?; Chapter 2 -- What Criteria are Most Critical to Determine the Urgency of Child Protective Services Response?; Chapter 3 -- What is Child Neglect?; Chapter 4 -- What is Physical Abuse?; Chapter 5 -- What is Sexual Abuse?; Chapter 6 -- What is Psychological Maltreatment?; Part II -- Engagement; Chapter 7 -- How do I Connect with Children at Different Developmental Levels?; Chapter 8 -- How do I Develop a Helping Alliance with the Family?
Chapter 9 -- What Principles and Approaches can I Use to Engage Clients across Cultures?Chapter 10 -- How can I Use Authority Effectively and Engage Family Members?; Chapter 11 -- How do I Manage Difficult Encounters with the Family?; Chapter 12 -- How do I Respond to Feelings (Mine and My Client's)?; Part III -- Interviewing; Chapter 13 -- How do I Interview Young Children about Suspected Sexual Abuse?; Chapter 14 -- How do I Interview Older Children and Adolescents about Sexual Abuse?; Chapter 15 -- What Tools are Appropriate to Facilitate Interviews with Children?
Chapter 16 -- How do I Interview a Child about Alleged Physical Abuse?Chapter 17 -- How do I Interview Non-Maltreating Parents and Caregivers?; Chapter 18 -- How do I Interview the Alleged Perpetrator?; Chapter 19 -- What Kinds of Questions in My Initial Assessment Interviews will Generate Solutions and Enhance Safety?; Part IV -- Initial Assessment; Section A -- General; Chapter 20 -- How do I Differentiate Culturally Based Parenting Practices from Child Maltreatment?; Chapter 21 -- How should Child Protective Services and Law Enforcement Coordinate the Initial Assessment and Investigation?
Chapter 22 -- How do I Screen a Caregiver's Use and Abuse of and Dependence on Alcohol and Other Drugs and their Effects on Parenting?Chapter 23 -- How do I Screen Caregivers if I Suspect that They may be Dangerous to Themselves or their Children?; Chapter 24 -- How do I Decide Whether to Substantiate a Report?; Section B -- Neglect; Chapter 25 -- How do I Determine if a Child is Neglected?; Chapter 26 -- How do I Determine if it is Medical Neglect?; Chapter 27 -- How do I Determine Whether a Child's Nutritional Needs are being Met?; Chapter 28 -- What is Inadequate Supervision?
Chapter 29 -- How do I Assess Neglect among At-Risk Adolescents?Section C -- Physical Abuse; Chapter 30 -- How do I Determine Whether a Child has been Physically Abused?; Chapter 31 -- What Medical Evaluation is Needed when Physical Abuse is Suspected?; Chapter 32 -- How do I Interpret Medical Tests for Physical Abuse?; Chapter 33 -- What Conditions may be Mistaken for Physical Abuse?; Chapter 34 -- What are the Telltale Differences between Abusive and Noninflicted Injuries ?; Chapter 35 -- What is Shaken Baby Syndrome?
Chapter 36 -- How do I Assess Possible Histories of Physical Abuse among Assaultive Adolescents ?
Summary The Handbook for Child Protection Protection Practice presents a comprehensive and critical portrait of the phenomenon of neglect. Drawing on theory, research and clinical practice experience, the contributors cover issues facing social workers. They provide a view of child neglect which moves beyond the current child welfare focus on parental omissions in care. Organized in question and answer format, topics covered include: engaging with the client; initial assessments for factors such as neglect and physical and sexual abuse; how to assess the family; interventions with various differe
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Subject Child abuse -- United States -- Prevention -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Child welfare -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Social work with children -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Family social work -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Child abuse -- Prevention
Child welfare
Family social work
Social work with children
United States
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
Author DePanfilis, Dr. Diane
ISBN 9781452221434
145222143X
9780761913702
076191370X