This comprehensive handbook is a thoroughly up-to-date reference for all those involved in child protection work and is based on the highly successful Early Prediction and Prevention of Child Abuse first published in 1988. brbrWith a focus on evidence based practice, the handbook has four sections: Prevalence and Prediction; Primary and Secondary Prevention; Helping Victims and Helping Offenders. brbrThe contributors have been selected from both practitioner and research backgrounds and all are experts in their fields. As essential purchase for professionals in any work related to child protection and to students and trainees in a range of disciplines including social work; psychiatry; psychology; paediatrics; nursing and health. brbrbr* An updated and expanded edition of Early Prevention of Child Abuse, which is considered a key text in the field br* Highly qualified and respected contributors br* Contains information on offenders as well as victims, thus offering an important new dimensionRecognising Changes in Incidence and Prevalence (Susan Creighton);brPredicting Fatal Child Abuse and Neglect (Peter Reder & Sylvia Duncan;brPredicting Physical Maltreatment (Catherine Hamilton & Kevin Browne);brPredicting Emotional Child Abuse and Neglect (Danya Glaser & Vivian Prior);brPredicting Sexual Child Abuse and Neglect (Chris Hobbs & Jane Wynne);brAn Ecological Analysis of the Etiology of Child Maltreatment (Jay Belsky & Peter Stratton);brIf I Knew Then What I Know Now: Integrity and Fragmentation in the Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect (Patricia Crittenden);brEducating and Changing Parents: Strengthening the Primary Safety Net for Children (Deborah Daro);brPromoting Positive Parenting as an Abuse Prevention Strategy (Matthew Sanders and Warren Cann);brPreventing Child Abuse and Neglect with Prenatal and Infancy Home Visiting by Nurses (David Olds, et al.);brTo or for whom: a Social Policy Perspective on Child Abuse and Child Pro