Citation

Jud A. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry Ment. Health 2018; 12: e21.

Affiliation

School of Social Work, Lucerne University of Applied, Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group - BMC)

DOI

10.1186/s13034-018-0228-1

PMID

29719564

PMCID

PMC5921261

Abstract

Child protection research in general should inform parents and other caregivers on how to best provide a violence-free upbringing for their children. It should furthermore inform professionals on how to best protect and support victimized children and their families. Research on child maltreatment epidemiology has yet another, specific goal: it should inform policy-makers and administrators on how to best manage child protection systems, on how to improve early detection of child maltreatment and accessibility for high-risk groups, particularize and scale-up prevention programs, etc. Unfortunately, research on child maltreatment epidemiology still has many gaps: population surveys have so far primarily focused on the prevalence of child sexual abuse and only a handful of countries can build their child protection strategies and policies on evidence of nationally representative data of reported child maltreatment incidents. This special issue aims at contributing to bridge the gap on lacking child maltreatment epidemiological research ...

Language: en