Classic Papers in Child Abuse / Edition 1

by Kim Oates, Anne Cohn Donnelly

Overview

Classic Papers in Child Abuse presents a selection of timeless core research into interdependent aspects of dealing with child maltreatment. This book is for advanced clinical students and professionals in a variety of disciplines whose work involves interdependent aspects of dealing with child maltreatment. In essence, a "mini-library" is made available for quick access to timeless core research vital to the assessment, management, treatment, and prosecution of current cases.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761918363
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/21/2000
Series:	Children and Adolescents Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anne Cohn Donnelly is a Senior Lecturer in Social Enterprise at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She has taught nonprofit management with a focus on board governance in the school’s Executive Education courses as well as its graduate programs. She established the school’s Board Fellows Program and served as its founding Academic Director. In addition, she works with a number of nonprofits on issues such as child abuse and child well being.

Dr. Donnelly was the Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse America (formerly the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse) from the fall of 1980 through the summer of 1997. During this time she launched the Healthy Families America Initiative. Prior to this, she served as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. At the time of her selection she was a Congressional Science Fellow in the office of the Honorable Albert Gore, Jr. sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Born in Evanston, Illinois, Dr. Donnelly received a B.A. degree in sociology from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in Medical Sociology from Tufts University and both the M.P.H. and D.P.H. degrees in health administration and planning from the University of California (Berkeley) School of Public Health.

As Associate and member of the Board of Directors at Berkeley Planning Associates, Dr. Donnelly designed and directed the first national evaluation study of child abuse and neglect treatment programs. She has lectured and published widely and this and subsequent research and policy issues and she has appeared frequently on national and local TV and radio shows. She has received numerous distinctions from her peers for her work including the Vincent de Francis Award, the Brandt Steele Award, the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Distinguished Service Award, the Outstanding Professional Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and award bearing her name from Prevent Child Abuse America.

She has been a member of numerous national and international boards and is currently serving on the boards of: Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, the Jane Addams Juvenile Court Foundation, Woodlands Academy, Board Source, and Globe Med. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Multiple Fractures in the Long Bones of Infants Suffering from Chronic Subdural Hematoma - John Caffey, 1946
The Battered Child Syndrome - C Henry Kempe et al, 1962
Maternal Attachment - Marshall H Klaus et al, 1972
Importance of the First Post-Partum Days
On the Theory and Practice of Shaking Infants - John Caffey, 1972
Its Potential Residual Effects of Permanent Brain Damage and Mental Retardation
On Continuity, a Child's Sense of Time and the Limits of both Law and Prediction - J Goldstein, Anna Freud and A J Solnit, 1973
Unraveling Child Abuse - David Gil, 1975
Nonorganic Failure to Thrive - Ian W Hufton and R Kim Oates, 1977
A Long-Term Followup
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy - Roy Meadow, 1977
Child Abuse and Neglect - Leroy H Pelton, 1978
The Myth of Classlessness
The Elusive 'Crime' of Emotional Abuse - James Garbarino, 1978
Sexual Abuse - C Henry Kempe, 1978
Another Hidden Pediatric Problem
Prediction and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect - Jane D Gray, Christy A Cutler and Janet G Dean, 1979
Isolation of the Neglectful Family - Norman A Polansky et al, 1979
A Psychiatric Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships
Failure of Bond Formation as a Cause of Abuse, Neglect and Maltreatment - Byron Egeland and Brian Vaughan, 1981
The Incidence and Prevalence of Intrafamilial and Extrafamilial Sexual Abuse of Female Children - Diane E H Russell, 1983
The Child Sexual Abuse Accomodation Syndrome - Roland C Summit, 1983
Four Preconditions - David Finkelhor, 1984
A Model
Violence towards Children in the United States and Sweden - Richard J Gelles and Ake W Edfeldt, 1986
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect - David L Olds et al, 1986
A Randomized Trial of Nurse Home Visitation
Impact of Child Sexual Abuse - Angela Browne and David Finkelhor, 1986
A Review of the Research
Psychodynamic Factors in Child Abuse - Brandt F Steele, 1987
Is Treatment too Late? What Ten Years of Evaluative Research Tell Us - Anne Harris Cohn (Donnelly) and Deborah Daro, 1987
The Litany of the Smoldering Neglect of Children - Ray E Helfer, 1987
Reliable and Fictitious Accounts of Sexual Abuse to Children - David P H Jones, 1987
Does Violence Beget Violence? - Cathy Spatz Widom, 1989

Editorial Reviews

Covering work from 1946 to 1989, these 25 papers were selected based upon a survey of research and clinical professionals' opinions on influential papers which was then compared with the number of citations found for papers in the professional literature. The chronologically-arranged papers stem from a variety of disciplines and are accompanied by commentary explaining why the work was important at the time of publication and what their implications are for present- day research. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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