Classic Papers in Child Abuse

Anne Cohn Donnelly is a Senior Lecturer in Social Enterprise at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She has taught nonprofit management with a focus on board governance in the school’s Executive Education courses as well as its graduate programs. She established the school’s Board Fellows Program and served as its founding Academic Director. In addition, she works with a number of nonprofits on issues such as child abuse and child well being. Dr. Donnelly was the Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse America (formerly the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse) from the fall of 1980 through the summer of 1997. During this time she launched the Healthy Families America Initiative. Prior to this, she served as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. At the time of her selection she was a Congressional Science Fellow in the office of the Honorable Albert Gore, Jr. sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Born in Evanston, Illinois, Dr. Donnelly received a B.A. degree in sociology from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in Medical Sociology from Tufts University and both the M.P.H. and D.P.H. degrees in health administration and planning from the University of California (Berkeley) School of Public Health. As Associate and member of the Board of Directors at Berkeley Planning Associates, Dr. Donnelly designed and directed the first national evaluation study of child abuse and neglect treatment programs. She has lectured and published widely and this and subsequent research and policy issues and she has appeared frequently on national and local TV and radio shows. She has received numerous distinctions from her peers for her work including the Vincent de Francis Award, the Brandt Steele Award, the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Distinguished Service Award, the Outstanding Professional Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and award bearing her name from Prevent Child Abuse America. She has been a member of numerous national and international boards and is currently serving on the boards of: Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, the Jane Addams Juvenile Court Foundation, Woodlands Academy, BoardSource, and GlobeMed. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• IntroductionMultiple Fractures in the Long Bones of Infants Suffering from Chronic Subdural Hematoma - John Caffey, 1946The Battered Child Syndrome - C Henry Kempe et al, 1962Maternal Attachment - Marshall H Klaus et al, 1972Importance of the First Post-Partum DaysOn the Theory and Practice of Shaking Infants - John Caffey, 1972Its Potential Residual Effects of Permanent Brain Damage and Mental RetardationOn Continuity, a Child′s Sense of Time and the Limits of both Law and Prediction - J Goldstein, Anna Freud and A J Solnit, 1973Unraveling Child Abuse - David Gil, 1975Nonorganic Failure to Thrive - Ian W Hufton and R Kim Oates, 1977A Long-Term FollowupMunchausen Syndrome by Proxy - Roy Meadow, 1977Child Abuse and Neglect - Leroy H Pelton, 1978The Myth of ClasslessnessThe Elusive ′Crime′ of Emotional Abuse - James Garbarino, 1978Sexual Abuse - C Henry Kempe, 1978Another Hidden Pediatric ProblemPrediction and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect - Jane D Gray, Christy A Cutler and Janet G Dean, 1979Isolation of the Neglectful Family - Norman A Polansky et al, 1979A Psychiatric Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother RelationshipsFailure of Bond Formation as a Cause of Abuse, Neglect and Maltreatment - Byron Egeland and Brian Vaughan, 1981The Incidence and Prevalence of Intrafamilial and Extrafamilial Sexual Abuse of Female Children - Diane E H Russell, 1983The Child Sexual Abuse Accomodation Syndrome - Roland C Summit, 1983Four Preconditions - David Finkelhor, 1984A ModelViolence towards Children in the United States and Sweden - Richard J Gelles and Ake W Edfeldt, 1986Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect - David L Olds et al, 1986A Randomized Trial of Nurse Home VisitationImpact of Child Sexual Abuse - Angela Browne and David Finkelhor, 1986A Review of the ResearchPsychodynamic Factors in Child Abuse - Brandt F Steele, 1987Is Treatment too Late? What Ten Years of Evaluative Research Tell Us - Anne Harris Cohn (Donnelly) and Deborah Daro, 1987The Litany of the Smoldering Neglect of Children - Ray E Helfer, 1987Reliable and Fictitious Accounts of Sexual Abuse to Children - David P H Jones, 1987Does Violence Beget Violence? - Cathy Spatz Widom, 1989