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Gilbert, Ruth, Kemp, Alison, Thoburn, June, Sidebotham, Peter, Radford, Lorraine, Glaser, Danya and MacMillan, Harriet L.. (2009) Recognising and responding to child maltreatment. Lancet, Vol.373 (No.9658). pp. 167-180. ISSN 0140-6736
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61707-9
Abstract
Professionals in child health, primary care, mental health, schools, social services, and law-enforcement services all contribute to the recognition of and response to child maltreatment. In all sectors, children suspected of being maltreated are under-reported to child-protection agencies. Lack of awareness of the signs of child maltreatment and processes for reporting to child-protection agencies, and a perception that reporting might do more harm than good, are among the reasons for not reporting. Strategies to improve recognition, mainly used in paediatric practice, include training, use of questionnaires for asking children and parents about maltreatment, and evidence-based guidelines for who should be assessed by child-protection specialists. Internationally, studies suggest that policies emphasising substantiation of maltreatment without concomitant attention to welfare needs lead to less service provision for maltreated children than do those in systems for which child maltreatment is part of a broad child and family welfare response.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Lancet |
| Publisher: | The Lancet Publishing Group |
| ISSN: | 0140-6736 |
| Date: | 10 January 2009 |
| Volume: | Vol.373 |
| Number: | No.9658 |
| Number of Pages: | 14 |
| Page Range: | pp. 167-180 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61707-9 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/28755 |
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