The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment. - Review - book review

Adolescence, Spring, 1998

BRIERE, John, BERLINER, Lucy, BULKLEY, Josephine A., JENNY, Carole, & REID, Theresa (Eds.). The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996. 449pp. $32.95 (p).

This resource provides critical information for those who work to alleviate the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect. Committed to practical application, this handbook covers physical and sexual abuse, all forms of neglect, and psychological maltreatment. Experts in a variety of specialized areas have designed each chapter to inform professionals in mental health, law, medicine, law enforcement, and child protective services of current empirical research and literature, as well as strategies for intervention and prevention. The book is divided into six parts: overview--aspects of child maltreatment, psychosocial treatment, medical aspects, legal aspects, preventing and reporting abuse, and organization and delivery of services.