Childhood Maltreatment

"This book provides outstanding suggestions and specific guidelines for mental health practitioners, from students to experienced therapists, in integrating empirically-based approaches into their clinical practice. The book clearly advances the field of intervention and treatment for children who have experienced abuse and neglect." Barbara L. Bonner, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Child Study Center, Oklahoma City, OK "This brief and concise book is replete with information and astute observations about the nature, context and effects of child maltreatment, which is wisely considered along dimensional, as well as the more usual categorical, lines. The authors succeed in portraying accurately those sequelae which require therapeutic intervention. Using the now necessary evidence-based approach, various forms of treatment are described and their applicability to specific post-abuse difficulties indicated. Case illustrations shed further light on the issues discussed. The book is thus a welcome addition to the child maltreatment literature, and will prove particularly useful to busy practitioners as well as to their managers, who will gain an understanding of the complexity and labor-intensive nature of work in this field." Danya Glaser, MB BS, FRCPsych, Department of Psychological Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK"