Eradicating Child Maltreatment ─ Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Intervention Across Services

With ideas drawn from a national conference on child maltreatment, Bentovim, Gray, and their contributors aim to achieve the goal of eradicating child abuse via a public health approach with evidence-based interventions at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. There are 10 chapters, including: burdens and consequences of child maltreatment; the role of health services in responding to child maltreatment; public health approach to parenting and family support: a blended prevention strategy to reduce child abuse and neglect; developing a resource pack targeting abusive parenting and the associated impairment of children. There is a list of contributors, references, tables and figures. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Arnon Bentovim is a Director of Child and Family Training, and a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was formerly a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and the Tavistock Clinic. He was also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. He is co-editor of Safeguarding Children Living with Trauma and Family Violence, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Jenny Gray OBE is a social work consultant and President of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. From 1995-2012 she was professional adviser to the British government on safeguarding children, firstly in the Department of Health and then in the Department for Education. In this capacity she led policy development on the assessment of children in need, reviews of serious cases and child deaths and the commissioning of safeguarding children research.