Child Abuse and Neglect: Multidisciplinary Approaches

Rating:
Summary: A Valuable Tool
Review: This book is educational and informative. It is for anyone involved in the social service field, and for anyone who works with child abuse and neglect on any level. I personally found the book to be an excellent reference tool, and solid teaching material.

This book lays out the definitions, current issues, and treatments surrounding child abuse and neglect. It also presents various models and perspectives and sums up different social theories; enhancing its title of "multidisciplinary approaches". Although the book discusses the need for a mutidisciplinary team approach,(and even devotes a chapter to the issue) it could have emphasized this to a greater degree and focused more upon conflict resolution among team members. Perhaps the authors could have created a uniform system for setting up a team of professionals with every suspected child abuse case from every point of entry within the group of professionals typically involved with a team. Also guidelines that could be adopted by the social service agencies involved. Maybe that will become the focus for another book.