商品簡介
Miller-Perrin and Perrin (Pepperdine U.) introduce the topic of child maltreatment and its treatment and prevention to undergraduate and beginning graduate students. They cover its history and definitions, theoretical and methodological issues, and the etiology, prevalence, and policy issues related to physical and sexual abuse, neglect, psychological maltreatment, and other forms, such as institutional maltreatment, as well as issues in advocacy and response. This edition refers to new research; revises the chapter on sex abuse to include Internet exploitation, sexting, and sex trafficking; expands and updates the discussion of controversial issues in the field; and adds new and updated information on bullying, sibling abuse, exposure to interpersonal violence, sex-selective abortions in India and China, human trafficking, victim resilience, children's rights as human rights, and shaken baby syndrome. One chapter has been deleted, though its material has been integrated into other chapters. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
