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Child Maltreatment Intervention: Directions and Issues
Author(s) -
Resick Patricia A.,
Sweet Jerry J.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1979.tb00806.x
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , outcome (game theory) , psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry , mathematical economics , mathematics
This article begins with a brief review of various non‐medical intervention procedures for child maltreatment. Psychological intervention is reviewed in more depth, with an emphasis placed on those treatments which have been empirically evaluated. Finally, the article discusses methodological and ethical issues concerning outcome research on maltreatment intervention.