Stopping Child Maltreatment Before it Starts

1st Edition

Emerging Horizons in Early Home Visitation Services

Neil B. Guterman
eISBN-13: 9781452221366

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Early prevention of child maltreatment is most commonly delivered through home visitation services, with the goal of promoting a positive start in parenting to avert potential child abuse and neglect, Stopping Child Maltreatment Before It Starts introduces best practice principles for early home visiting, examining the contexts from which these strategies arise.

Beginning with a discussion of the nature and etiology of physical child abuse and neglect, Guterman then examines the mechanisms by which child protective and early home visitation services have traditionally operated. The book explores best practice principles by providing a detailed "inside tour" of those practices that have been empirically linked with positive outcomes in serviced families. Guterman also discusses in detail ways how home visitation may more adequately address the problem of family substance abuse in reducing child maltreatment risk, and ways visitation can attend to social network and community influences and increase parent empowerment.

An essential text for child welfare courses, Stopping Child Maltreatment Before It Starts will also appeal to practitioners and policy makers in the child abuse and neglect field.

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ISBNs 9780761913122, 1452221367, 9781452221366, 9780761913115, 1452238634, 9781452238630, 0761913122, 9780761913122
Language English
Number of Pages 265
Edition 1st