Designed to help students to understand and deal with the problem of physical and psychological abuse within the family, this text uses an ecological approach.

Designed to help students to understand and deal with the problem of physical and psychological abuse within the family, this text uses an ecological approach. By examining the various complex relationships that exist, the book addresses questions such as why abuse occurs, what its victims experience, how they recover, what can be done to help them, how the perpetrators can be understood, and how family abuses can be reduced or prevented.

Survey of the family maltreatment landscape
child physical abuse
child psychological maltreatment
child neglect
child sexual abuse
child maltreatment - investigation, the courts, and intervention
sexual offenders
domestic violence
elder maltreatment.