Mental Health Issues of Child Maltreatment

<p>The first volume of Mental Health Issues of Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Strategies is a thorough examination of current knowledge on the way child abuse and neglect can affect a child's mental and emotional development. In this volume interdisciplinary professionals focus on the presentation and assessment of trauma with a special focus on post-pandemic emerging trends in diagnosis.</p><p>This text intends to do the following: </p><p>- Define the problem of child maltreatment conceptually and numerically using statistics that describe the state of maltreatment and the characteristics of those most affected by it </p><p>- Identify causes and risk factors that appear to affect susceptibility to maltreatment such as factors that increase a child's risk of abuse or obstacles to delivering effective child protection services </p><p>- Design interventions that are trauma-informed sensitive and developmentally targeted for children and their caregivers </p><p>- Disseminate information about the evidence and effectiveness of these interventions to increase the profile for their usage in clinical practice </p><p>- Educate students and future professionals in psychology medicine nursing social work and creative arts therapies to mitigate the effects of child maltreatment for future generations </p>