The 26 papers focus on child abuse issues affecting the Mexican American family. The keynote address notes various issues in child abuse and neglect among Mexican Americans. Three papers discuss Mexican American families in transition, adjustment of the family into the Mexican American barrio and vice versa, and the effects of sexual assault on the Mexican American woman, her family, and the community. Five papers address child abuse in the minority community, child abuse and neglect in the Mexican American community, abuse and neglect of low-income Hispanic children and adolescents from a systems approach, ecological correlates of child maltreatment, and attitudes toward child abuse and child-rearing practices of Mexican American migrant parents. Nine papers deal with culturally relevant intervention approaches with Mexican American families, e.g., a Spanish language educational radio program, culturally sensitive group therapy, multicultural approach to clinical practice, and child advocacy and parents' rights in child abuse and neglect legal proceedings. The last eight papers discuss innovative prevention and treatment programs and delivery systems and special topics in child abuse and neglect, such as diversity of Indians as it relates to child abuse and neglect, domestic violence-crisis intervention with the Hispanic family, and implications of substance abuse among Mexican American migrants. The closing address discusses stress management. (NQA)