Selected Resources

What Factors Contribute to Child Abuse and Neglect?
Office on Child Abuse and Neglect (HHS) User Manual Series (2003)
In A Coordinated Response to Child Abuse and Neglect: The Foundation for Practice
Parent, child, family, and environmental risk and protective factors.

Risk Factors Associated With the Chronicity of High Potential for Child Abuse and Neglect
Ethier, Couture, & Lacharite
Journal of Family Violence, 19(1), 2004
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Study analyzes parental psychosocial risk factors asscociated with child abuse and neglect.

Onset of Physical Abuse and Neglect: Psychiatric, Substance Abuse, and Social Risk Factors from Prospective Community Data
Chaffin, Kelleher, & Hollenburg
Child Abuse and Neglect, 20(3), 1996
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Examines psychiatric and social risk factors associated with self-reported physical abuse or neglect.