TY - JOUR

T1 - Child maltreatment in the family: a European perspective.

AU - May-Chahal, Corinne A.

AU - Bertotti,, T.

AU - Cerezo,, M.A.

AU - Di-Blasio,, P.

N1 - May-Chahal wrote the entire output, drawing additionally on research contributed by the other named authors who were partners in the Co-ordination Action on the Prevention of Child Abuse in Europe (CAPCAE) which she co-ordinated. RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Social Work and Social Policy & Administration

PY - 2006/5/1

Y1 - 2006/5/1

N2 - Child maltreatment is generally referred to under the global categories of physical, sexual, emotional/psychological abuse and neglect. The Concerted Action on the Prevention of Child Abuse in Europe (CAPCAE) reports on the specific forms of harm and injury, actions and persons believed responsible in eight European countries. The most common actions across all participating countries responsible for harm were those of violent parenting or absent parenting. A review of prevention strategies found that few programmes focused on specific behaviours or included measures to indicate whether their actions were successful in preventing further harm to children. It is recommended that fathers need to be targeted in prevention as well as mothers and that specific data collection of actual harms, actions, persons responsible and outcomes needs to be implemented as a priority in all European countries. Such specificity avoids a focus on risk which is unacceptable in some countries, over inclusive of parents and resource intensive.

AB - Child maltreatment is generally referred to under the global categories of physical, sexual, emotional/psychological abuse and neglect. The Concerted Action on the Prevention of Child Abuse in Europe (CAPCAE) reports on the specific forms of harm and injury, actions and persons believed responsible in eight European countries. The most common actions across all participating countries responsible for harm were those of violent parenting or absent parenting. A review of prevention strategies found that few programmes focused on specific behaviours or included measures to indicate whether their actions were successful in preventing further harm to children. It is recommended that fathers need to be targeted in prevention as well as mothers and that specific data collection of actual harms, actions, persons responsible and outcomes needs to be implemented as a priority in all European countries. Such specificity avoids a focus on risk which is unacceptable in some countries, over inclusive of parents and resource intensive.

KW - Child Maltreatment

KW - Europe

KW - Comparative Research

KW - Prevention

U2 - 10.1080/13691450500480706

DO - 10.1080/13691450500480706

M3 - Journal article

VL - 9

SP - 3

EP - 20

JO - European Journal of Social Work

JF - European Journal of Social Work

SN - 1369-1457

IS - 1

ER -