Twenty years later: we do know how to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Addressing student and schooling problems: not another project! Child safety should be embedded in the missions of schools.

To eliminate disparities, we must know enough (research); do enough (deliver the outcomes); care enough (commitment); and persevere enough (don’t get discouraged). – David Satcher, Director, Morehouse School of Medicine, National Center for Primary Care dvocates arguing for schools and communities to expand their role in addressing child and adolescent problems constantly compete with each othe...

The Prevalence and Types of Child Abuse among Teachers and its Relationship with their Demographic Characteristics and General Health in Primary Schools

Introduction Teachers are one of the groups that in addition to teaching the students can have a role in control and identification of child abuse and violence in schools. Certainly, before doing any action and choose an approach to reduce misbehavior, we should be aware of situation, how and prevalence of child abuse in schools. The present study aims to investigate the prevalence and types of...

Why child maltreatment researchers should include children's disability status in their maltreatment studies.

Approximately 8% of children in the US have disabilities (US Census Bureau, 2002), and these children are more likely to be abused or neglected than their non-disabled peers. The studies that have identified this vulnerability have varied in methodology and sample, and yet the findings have been remarkably consistent. But much work still needs to be done to know the magnitude of the problem, an...

The process of victimization: the victims' perspective.

Twenty-three child victims (aged 10-18 years) of childhood sexual abuse were interviewed about the victimization process, the person who abused them, and how abuse might have been prevented. Specific questions obtained information about the quality of the relationship between victim and offender, the offender's pre-abuse behavior, the explanation for the behavior given by the offender, and the ...

International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) and worldwide endeavors to prevent child maltreatment.