Policy and practice papers
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Community-based approaches in preventing child maltreatment
Review of theoretical constructs relating to child abuse prevention, health promotion strategies and the development of healthy communities.
Valuing parent education: A cornerstone of child abuse…
Overview of parent education and the effectiveness of parent education interventions in the prevention of child maltreatment.
Long-term effects of child sexual abuse - 1998
Examines the effects of child sexual abuse on social, sexual and interpersonal functioning, and its role in the broader aspects of mental health.
Emotional abuse: The hidden form of maltreatment
Explores definitions of emotional abuse within legal, practice and research frameworks.
Child maltreatment and mental disorder
Produced by the former National Child Protection Clearinghouse
Child maltreatment and disability
Examines the relationship between children with disabilities and parents with disabilities, and the potential for child maltreatment.
Child maltreatment and substance abuse
Discussion Paper 2. by the National Child Protection Clearinghouse
Intergenerational transmission of maltreatment
Review of the literature on intergenerational transmission of maltreatment, and whether and how maltreated children become abusive parents.
Child maltreatment and family structure
Discussion Paper 1 Produced by the National Child Protection Clearinghouse.