Offers guidelines to help child-care practitioners identify and address child abuse, even in their own practice. Contains checklists, charts, illustrations, and background information needed to detect neglect and physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Includes questions to help practitioners examine their own actions as potential emotional abuse.…

Contains information to help child-care practitioners appropriately report child abuse. Addresses how to recognize and document abuse, what reporting abuse entails, and what happens after a report is filed. Contains state-by-state listing of abuse hotlines, sources for mandatory reporting laws, and resources such as telephone numbers and books.…

Families of 72 children with sexual behavior problems completed a structured interview and psychometric measures. Caregivers manifested stresses across many variables including income, criminal arrest, family violence, sexual abuse, social support, modulation of emotion, and attachment to the child. Foster parents consistently reported lower…