Child Maltreatment

Eileen Munro is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics, London, UK. With a background in both philosophy and social work, her work has focused on the reasoning skills needed to provide an effective child protection service. The work was taken up by many child protection services in several countries but, in working with management and practitioners to improve risk assessment and decision making, she realised that the individual decision maker is strongly influenced by organizational and social factors that also need to be understood in order to reduce error. A powerful framework for doing this is provided by the systems approach to investigating error that was developed in aviation and has been adapted to medicine in the US and UK. Professor Munro then worked with the Social Care Institute for Excellence in the UK to adapt this approach to use in child protection services and it is now being adopted widely in England. At the request of the Secretary of State for Education, she undertook a review of child protection in England and published the final report in April 2011, followed by a progress report in May 2012.Her extensive consultancy work with child protection services in higher-income countries as well as her academic work makes her well qualified to pull together an overview of the issues in child protection.

• VOLUME ONE: Describing and understanding child maltreatmentThe Battered-Child Syndrome - C. Henry Kempe et al.Prevalence Societal Causes and Trends in Corporal Punishment by Parents in World Perspective - Murray StraussUnraveling Child Abuse - David GilThe Natural History of Child Abuse: A Study in Social Problem Definition - Nigel PartonThe Significance of Ethnic and Cultural Differences in Child Maltreatment - James Garbarino and Aaron EbataCulture and Child Maltreatment: Cultural Competence and Beyond - Jill KorbinPerception and Determination of Child Maltreatment: Exploratory Comparisons across Three Countries - Sunday Fakunmoju et al.Burden and Consequences of Child Maltreatment in High-Income Countries - Ruth Gilbert et al.Trends in Child Maltreatment - David Finkelhor and Lisa JonesMethodological Challenges in Measuring Child Maltreatment - Barbara Fallon et al.Understanding the Risks of Child Neglect: An Exploration of Poverty and Parenting Characteristics - Kristen Shook Slack et al.Toward an Ecological/Transactional Model of Community Violence and Child Maltreatment: Consequences for Children′s Development - Dante Cichetti and Michael LynchRisk Factors in Child Maltreatment: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Literature - Sandra StithThe Perspective of Evil in Understanding and Treating Child Abuse - James Garbarino and John HershbergerChild Maltreatment and Violent Delinquency: Disentangling Main Effects and Subgroup Effects - Joshua Mersky and Arthur ReynoldsCognition, Emotion, and Neurobiological Development: Mediating the Relation between Maltreatment and Aggression - Vivien Lee and Peter HoakenThe Consequences of Maltreatment on Children′s Lives: A Systematic Review of Data from the East Asia and Pacific Region - Deborah Fry, Amalee McCoy and Diane SwalesMultilevel Correlates of Behavioral Resilience among Children in Child Welfare - Tessa Bell, Elisa Romano and Robert FlynnAt-Risk and Maltreated Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Aggression/Violence: What the Conflict Looks Like and Its Relationship to Child Outcomes - Diana English et al.Does Physical Abuse in Early Childhood Predict Substance Use in Adolescence and Early Adulthood? - Jennifer Lansford et al.The Economic Burden of Child Maltreatment in the United States and Implications for Prevention - Xiangming Fang, Derek Brownb, Curtis Florence and James MercyVOLUME TWO: Preventing child maltreatmentViolence and Development: How Persistent Fear and Anxiety Can Affect Young Children’s Learning, Behaviour and Health - Nathan Fox and Jack ShonkoffNeuroscience and the Risks of Maltreatment - Eileen Munro and Kristina MusholtPsychological Maltreatment: Maltreatment of the Mind: A Catalyst for Advancing Child Protection toward Proactive Primary Prevention and Promotion of Personal Well-Being - Stuart Hart and Danya GlaserServices for Vulnerable and Maltreated Children - June ThoburnReforming Child Protective Services - Jane WaldfogelEnhancing Service Systems for Protecting Children - Daryl Higgins and Ilan KatzA Public Health Approach to Safeguarding in the 21st Century - Jane Barlow and Rachel CalamChildren Living in the Midst of Domestic and Family Violence - Cathy Humphreys and Menka TsanfeskiThe Over-Representation of Black Children in the Child Protection System: Possible Causes, Consequences and Solutions - A. ChandThe Protective Environment: Development Support for Child Protection - Karin LandgrenConcluding Reflections: How Might We Really Protect Children? - William Myers and Michael BourdillonChild Abuse as a Complex and Wicked Problem: Reflecting on Policy Developments in the United Kingdom in Working with Children and Families with Multiple Problems - John Devaney and Trevor SprattDo Early Childhood Interventions Prevent Child Maltreatment? A Review of Research - Arthur Reynolds, Lindsay Mathieson and James TopitzesA Brief Intervention Affects Parents’ Attitudes toward Using Less Physical Punishment - Antwon Chavis et al.Toward Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice in Child Welfare - Julia Littell and Aron ShlonskyAn International Classification System for Child Welfare Programs - Mark Ezell et al.Evidence-based Practice: Counterarguments to Objections - Leonard Gibbs and Eileen GambrillWho Knows Best? Evidence-based Practice and the Service User Contribution - Jon Glasby and Peter BeresfordThe Mismatch between the Map and the Terrain – Evidence-based Social Work in Sweden - Anders Bergmark, Åke Bergmark and Tommy LundstromEvidence-based Practices Do Not Exist - Bruce Thyer and Monica PignottiEvidence-based Practice at a Crossroads the Timely Emergence of Common Elements and Common Factors - Richard Barth et al.How Do We Know What Works? The Quality of Published Reviews of Evidence-based Practices - Julia LittellEvidence-Informed Practice: Antidote to Propaganda in the Helping Professions? - Eileen GambrillVOLUME THREE: Responding to child maltreatmentMandatory Reporting Legislation in the United States, Canada, and Australia: A Cross-Jurisdictional Review of Key Features, Differences, and Issues - Ben Mathews and Maureen KennyReforming Child Protective Services - Jane WaldfogelExploring Psychological Abuse in Childhood: I. Developing a New Interview Scale - Patricia Moran et al.Exploring Psychological Abuse in Childhood: II. Association with Other Abuse and Adult Clinical Depression - Antonia Bifulco et al.Risk, Advanced Liberalism and Child Welfare: The Need to Rediscover Uncertainty and Ambiguity - Nigel PartonConfidence and Professional Judgment in Assessing Children’s Risk of Abuse - Cheryl Regehr et al.Safeguarding: A Care for Intelligent Risk Management - Geraldine Macdonald and Kenneth MacdonaldProtecting Children in an Anxious Society - Eileen MunroTime for an Ideological Shift in Child Welfare? An Essay Review - Anthony MaluccioHow to Deal with Emotional Abuse and Neglect – Further Development of a Conceptual Framework (FRAMEA) - Danya GlaserAchieving Safety, Stability and Belonging for Children in Out-of-Home Care: The Search for ‘What Works’ across National Boundaries - June ThoburnEmotional Intelligence, Emotion and Social Work: Context, Characteristics, Complications and Contribution - Tony MorrisonTransforming Child Protection Agencies into High Reliability Organizations: A Conceptual Framework - Tina Rzepnicki et al.Soft Is Hardest: Leading for Learning in Child Protection Services Following a Child Fatality - Andrew Turnell, Eileen Munro and Terry MurphyAssessing the Organizational Social Context (OSC) of Child Welfare Systems: Implications for Research and Practice - Charles Glisson, Philip Green and Nathaniel WilliamsThe Influence of Performance Measurement on Child Welfare Policy and Practice - Clare TilburyFrom Menzies Lyth to Munro: The Problem of Managerialism - Amanda Lees, Edgar Meyer and Jackie RaffertyMaking Sense of Complex Electronic Records: Socio-Technical Design in Social Care - David Wastell and Sue WhiteLearning to Reduce Risk in Child Protection - Eileen MunroReforming Child Welfare: An Integrated Approach - Marie Connolly and Ray Smith

"This is a long-awaited publication on child maltreatment, including work by leading researchers in the field from various parts of the world, which thoroughly covers the causal risks, prevention and the possible responses to the issue."