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Child abuse and maltreatment take many different forms. This collection gives pediatricians and pediatric care-givers the latest findings on diagnosing, treating, and preventing child abuse and the risk factors that often accompany abuse, maltreatment, and neglect.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: More than a Million Children -- Chapter 1: How Serious Is Child Abuse in the United States? -- Chapter 2: When Does Child Abuse Happen? -- Chapter 3: How Is Child Abuse Investigated? -- Chapter 4: Can Child Abuse Be Prevented? -- Chapter 5: Recovering from Child Abuse -- Notes -- Glossary -- Discussion Questions -- Organizations to Contact -- For More Information -- Index -- Picture Credits -- About the Author -- Back Cover

Cover title. ; "September 18-19, 1985." ; Mode of access: Internet.

Intro -- Contents -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Children with disabilities -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Biology, epidemiology and risk factors -- Abuse as a cause of disability -- Assessment, legal response and treatment -- Prevention -- Conclusion -- References -- Section one: Aspects of maltreatment and disability -- Genetics, epigenetics and the molecular marks of stress: A primer -- Introduction -- Our genome in a modern perspective -- What is epigenetics? -- Layers of complexity -- Transcription factors -- Genomic imprinting and DNA methylation -- Telomeres -- Chromatin and the histone code -- Non-coding RNAs -- Future directions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Disability and the epidemiology of child abuse and neglect -- Introduction -- Definitions and risk and protective factors -- Physical abuse -- Sexual abuse -- Psychologic maltreatment -- Neglect and medical care neglect -- Children with disabilities -- Conclusion -- References -- Conceptual framework and definitions of disability: An overview -- Introduction -- Intellectual disability -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Abuse and neglect as cause for disability -- Introduction -- Measuring disability after trauma in general -- Disability from child physical abuse: Abusive head trauma -- Common sequelae of abusive head trauma (AHT) -- Functional outcomes of abusive head trauma versus non-abusive head trauma -- Burns -- Abdominal trauma -- Cost of abuse-related disability -- Disability from failure to thrive and child neglect -- The impact of poverty and neglect as it relates to impairment from FTT -- Intellectual development as it relates to impairment from FTT -- Socioemotional development -- Treatment -- Conclusion -- References -- Tragedy of sibling abuse of children with disabilities -- Introduction -- Frequency of Sibling Abuse

The following articles won for the author, Barbara Walton, the Australian Child and Family Welfare journal award for journalism. The articles were published by the Shepparton News in aseries of three articles in March, 1980. In June, 1980 it was announced that the Coulburn Valley branch of the Children's Protection Society had received a grant of $32,000. It was considered that the articles by Barbara Walton had contributed to the movement to strengthen the Children's Protection Society in the area.