Child Neglect and Emotional Abuse: Understanding, Assessment and Response

by Celia Doyle, Charles Timms

Protecting children from emotional abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice. This book takes readers step-by-step through the underlining theory, skills and practice of working with vulnerable children, highlighting essential contemporary research evidence throughout. Part 1: Understanding introduces the nature and consequences of child neglect and emotional abuse, including up-to-date knowledge about the physiological impact of childhood malnutrition and emotional deprivation. Part 2: Assessment considers in detail the factors which can contribute to the complexity of the assessment process and explains assessment procedures.

Part 3: Response offers insights into positive interventions, including some innovative modern therapies and family management approaches such as 'PACT'. Using a series of case studies to make complex skills and knowledge accessible, this is essential reading for students and professionals across disciplines that may come into contact with vulnerable children.

216 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2014

Reviews

[Gabrielė Bužinskaitė · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an academic read about the effects of physical and emotional neglect on children. It explains various types of behaviors by parents that disrupt the healthy growth and development of a child.

Although targeted at social workers, it is an informative read for anyone curious about what is considered neglect, abuse, and mistreatment. Also, how such things damage children.

I only wish it had a chapter of signs of childhood negligence in teens and adults, but I understand how subjective it is.

“Leaving a child with lots of different carers who are strangers to the young child is a form of emotional abuse and neglect.”