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Defining Child Maltreatment: Understanding the Social Construction-of-Deviance Definitions. Just as the claims-making process is an important part of the history and discovery of child mal-treatment, it plays an important role in how child maltreatment is defined as well.
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Childhood maltreatment (CM), defined as emotional, physi-cal, sexual abuse, and emotional and physical neglect, has a high prevalence across the world. Approximately, three in four children experience physical and/or emotional victim-ization. For sexual abuse, this rate is one in five in women and 1 in 13 in men (World Health Organization, 2020).
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The concept of child maltreatment has been defined and rede-fined throughout history. Society is slowly evolving from viewing children as property, subject to the whims of the family and society, to at least recognizing that children may have rights of their own.
Jan 18, 2018 · Purpose. To provide an overview of resilience and protective factors associated with a better life following child maltreatment exposure, to compare protective factors across specific subtypes of maltreatment, and to explore existing issues in the current state of the literature.
- Xiangfei Meng, Marie-Josee Fleury, Marie-Josee Fleury, Yu-Tao Xiang, Muzi Li, Carl D’Arcy
- 2018
Dec 1, 2020 · 1. Introduction. Child psychological maltreatment (PM), also known as emotional abuse and neglect, mental violence, and emotional maltreatment, is the least recognized and addressed of the four major forms of child maltreatment (CM) (i.e., physical abuse, physical neglect, sexual abuse, psychological abuse and neglect).
- Marla R. Brassard, Stuart N. Hart, Danya Glaser
- 2020
The only known use of the verb maltreat is in the late 1500s. OED's only evidence for maltreat is from 1592, in the writing of William Wyrley, antiquary and herald. maltreat is perhaps a borrowing from French.
Nov 9, 2018 · maltreat. "to treat ill, abuse," 1708, from French maltraiter, or formed in English from mal- +… See origin and meaning of maltreat.
