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Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect
Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect
by Cynth Crosson Tower
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Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect Seventh Edition Cynthia Crosson-Tower   Basic Approach: This best-selling text offers a comprehensive look at child maltreatment, incorporating history, case vignettes, and the author's own experience as a... (read more)

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Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings on Race, Class, Gender, and Culture
Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings on Race, Class, Gender, and Culture
by Natalie J Sokoloff
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"This is a thoughtful and scholarly addition to the unfortunately scarce literature on domestic violence and oppression in all its forms."—Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Anna D. Wolf Chair, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing "An... (read more)

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Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (8TH 10 Edition)
Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (8TH 10 Edition)
by Cynthia Crosson-tower
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This best-selling text offers a comprehensive look at child maltreatment and incorporates history, case vignettes, and the author's own experience as a child protection worker.             The... (read more)

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Thou Shalt Not Be Aware : Society's Betrayal of the Child (98 Edition)
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware : Society's Betrayal of the Child (98 Edition)
by Alice Miller
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This groundbreaking classic of child-rearing, originally published in 1984, exploded Freud's notions of "infantile sexuality" and helped bring to the world's attention the brutal reality of child abuse.... (read more)

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Domestic Violence : Casebook (05 Edition)
Domestic Violence : Casebook (05 Edition)
by Jerry Johnson
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Each title in the Allyn & Bacon Johnson & Grant Casebook Series presents three to four in-depth cases in a different topic area, prefaced by an introduction to generalist social work practice. Allyn & Bacon Casebook Series for Domestic... (read more)

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Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
by Robin Karr Morse
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Although violent behavior has typically been traced to adolescence, "Ghosts from the Nursery" points to the cradle years as the genesis of this problem.... (read more)

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Understanding Child Maltreatment: An Ecological and Developmental Perspective
Understanding Child Maltreatment: An Ecological and Developmental Perspective
by Maria Scannapieco
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This framework fully considers risk and protective factors and their relationship to individuals, families, and environmental elements, presenting a much-needed perspective for today's child protective services workers. Understanding Child Maltreatment... (read more)

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Child Abuse Trauma (92 Edition)
Child Abuse Trauma (92 Edition)
by John N. Briere
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This book is the best this practitioner has seen for its practical definitions and concrete suggestions. At the same time, it reviews what research there is and notes the many areas in need of further study. . . . The controversial use of hypnosis for... (read more)

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The Battered Child
The Battered Child
by Mary Edna Helfer
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First published in 1968, The Battered Child quickly became a landmark work. Our awareness of child abuse today is due in no small part to the remarkable impact of its first and subsequent editions. The new edition of this classic text continues the... (read more)

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Online Learning
Online Learning
by Nada Dabbagh
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"...its major strength is that it coordinates research with practical concerns about online learning in a systematic way." — David VanEsselstyn, Ph.D., Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus "The ...text provides more in-depth coverage of online... (read more)

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Deshaney Case (07 Edition)
Deshaney Case (07 Edition)
by Lynne Curry
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"Poor Joshua!" lamented Justice Harry Blackmun in his famous dissent. "Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, obviously cowardly, and intemperate father, and abandoned by respondents who placed him in a dangerous predicament and who... (read more)

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Why Kids Kill Parents : Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide (95 Edition)
Why Kids Kill Parents : Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide (95 Edition)
by Kathleen M. Heide
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A tragic portrait of adolescents who kill their parents is revealed in this volume: these young people almost always kill out of desperation as they are almost always victims of severe child abuse, neglect and dysfunctional parenting.</p> <p>&... (read more)

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Violence and Abuse Issues (09 Edition)
Violence and Abuse Issues (09 Edition)
by Lee Ann Hoff
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After centuries of being considered a private matter in most societies, violence and its profound effect on the physical health, mental health, and social well-being of victims and their families, as well as on the assailants themselves, has started to... (read more)

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Tender Mercies : Inside the World of a Child Abuse Investigator (Rev 98 Edition)
Tender Mercies : Inside the World of a Child Abuse Investigator (Rev 98 Edition)
by Keith N. Richards
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This first-person, emotional account of a child protective services worker in New York State gives the reader an intimate look at all aspects of handling child abuse cases: interviewing parents, talking to abused children removed from their parents' care,... (read more)

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Betrayal Trauma : the Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse (96 Edition)
Betrayal Trauma : the Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse (96 Edition)
by Jennifer Freyd
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This book lays bare the logic of forgotten abuse. Psychologist Jennifer Freyd's breakthrough theory explaining this phenomenon shows how psychogenic amnesia not only happens but, if the abuse occurred at the hands of a parent or caregiver, is often... (read more)

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Preventing Child Maltreatment (09 Edition)
Preventing Child Maltreatment (09 Edition)
by Kenneth A. Dodge
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Many child abuse prevention programs have targeted factors within the family, such as parenting skills. This book describes the next wave of prevention: the promotion of safer, healthier childrearing environments in entire communities. The contributors... (read more)

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Child Maltreatment: An Introduction
Child Maltreatment: An Introduction
by Cindy L Miller Perrin
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<p>Praise for the <em>First Edition</em>:</p><p><em>"Child Maltreatment: An Introduction is the only textbook currently available that is suitable for undergraduate students and provides a comprehensive introduction to... (read more)

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Burned Alive: a Survivor of an ""Honor Killing"" Speaks Out (04 Edition)
Burned Alive: a Survivor of an ""Honor Killing"" Speaks Out (04 Edition)
by Souad
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When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her West Bank village, as in so many others, sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one's family and is punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of meting... (read more)

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Protecting Our Children: Understanding and Preventing Abuse and Neglect in Early Childhood (10 Edition)
Protecting Our Children: Understanding and Preventing Abuse and Neglect in Early Childhood (10 Edition)
by Sharon Hirschy
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This text is appropriate for all "Issues in early childhood education" courses as well as "child abuse and prevention courses" in an ECE (Early Childhood Education) program. Some states such as Texas, Illinois, and North Carolina require this course to... (read more)

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Nobody's Children : Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative (99 Edition)
Nobody's Children : Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative (99 Edition)
by Elizabeth Bartholet
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Elizabeth Bartholet is a professor at Harvard Law School. Her first book, Family Bonds: Adoption, Infertility, and the New World of Child Reproduction, was called "brilliant . . . an intelligent and passionate exploration of the legal, racial, and... (read more)

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