NCJ Number
153306
Date Published
1994
Length
240 pages
Annotation
This volume details the role of educators in preventing and intervening in child abuse, based on research findings, laws, regulatory and enforcement agencies, and customs.
Abstract
The text emphasizes that schools can do much in ways that are neither offensive nor costly and that the educator's role is critical because no child protective services program will stop the increase in new child abusers. It also notes that some actions are effective, while others can make matters worse for abusers as well as youthful survivors of maltreatment. Individual sections explain the role of schools, the characteristics of abusive parents and of abuse survivors, special issues related to incest, intervention policies, child abuse reporting and referral, and ways to help survivors and their parents. A section on primary prevention focuses on how to prepare children and youth for adulthood, the specific issues faced by adolescent parents, and ways to address community resistance to primary prevention programs. Specific recommendations, 73 references, and appended policy format, reporting and followup forms, list of resource organizations, and flow chart on child protective services