The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brings new worries about the welfare of children,
particularly those of families living in poverty and impacted other risk factors. These children …

Poverty is an important predictor of child maltreatment. Social policies that strengthen the
economic security of low-income families, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) …

This article reviews and analyzes extant literature on the prevention of child maltreatment.
We give an overview of protective factors that research finds to be efficacious in …

Adverse childhood experiences, or ACE s, may be mitigated by trauma‐informed social
environments—programs, services, systems, communities—that offer responses to trauma …

Population studies indicate that trauma exposure is ubiquitous and has a significant impact
on health. Trauma‐informed practice seeks to address the health consequences of trauma …

We searched the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed, Google Scholar and the
American Psychological Association's Psychinfo databases during September 2019 for …

Abstract The United States is once again experiencing a window of time wherein there is a
heightened acknowledgement and understanding of our history as a racist society. Many …

This chapter acknowledges the successes in child protection as well as the weaknesses and
limitations that need to be addressed through the development of public health approaches …

Abstract 'Cyberspace'has added a dimension to the ecology of the child and should be a
starting point for practitioners (including police) to think about digital media in the context of …

Background and Objective: Sixty countries worldwide have banned the use of physical
punishment, yet little is known about the association of physical and nonphysical forms of …