Treatment for Abused and Neglected Children: Infancy to Age 18

Author(s): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Urquiza, A. J., Winn, C.

Year Published: 1994

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Acknowledgments

Anthony J. Urquiza, Ph.D., is a child clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor at the Child Protection Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis Medical Center (UCDMC). Dr. Urquiza has extensive clinical experience with children, adolescents, and adults in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings. His primary clinical and research interests and publications center on all types of family violence, with specific focus on family violence and ethnic minorities, the sexual victimization of males, the treatment of child and adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, the development of children's sexuality, and mental health psychodiagnostic issues as they apply to child maltreatment. Dr. Urquiza is the coauthor of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual, The Role of Mental Health Professionals in the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect.

Cynthia A. Winn, L.C.S.W., is a member of the UCDMC Pediatric Social Services. She is also Treatment Coordinator of the UCDMC Child Protection Center. Ms. Winn's areas of interest and expertise include assessment and treatment of children and adolescents who have experienced physical and emotional trauma, including sexual and physical abuse and neglect, major medical diagnoses, and the witnessing of violent behavior.

The Department of Health and Human Services acknowledges the contribution of Harold P. Martin, who was the author of Treatment of Abused and Neglected Children, August 1979 and Bruce Fisher, Jane Berdie, JoAnn Cook, and Noel Day, who were the authors of Adolescent Abuse and Neglect: Intervention Strategies, January 1980.

The following were members of the Advisory Panel for Contract No. HHS-105-89:

Nainan Thomas
Child Welfare Division
Prince George's County
Department of Social Services
Hyattsville, MD

Shirley Davis
Child Development and Family Guidance Center
St. Petersburg, FL

Michael Nunno
Family Life Development Center
Ithaca, NY

Peter Correia
University of Oklahoma
Tulsa, OK

Howard Davidson
American Bar Association
Washington, DC

Anthony Urquiza
University of California
Sacramento, CA

Janet Hutchinson
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Judee Filip
National Resource Center Child Abuse and Neglect
Denver, CO

John Holton
Greater Chicago Council for the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse
Chicago, IL

Sandra Hodge
Department of Human Services
Augusta, ME

Marsha K. Salus
Chair
User Manual Advisory Panel
Alexandria, VA

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