Promising practices in understanding and treating child neglect

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-24

  Berry, Marianne ^a   Charlson, Renae ^a   Dawson, Kari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Child maltreatment; Child neglect; Prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 7544240589     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2206.2003.00262.x     Document Type: Article

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