Title:
Children and violence : the world of the defenceless
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Physical Description:
xxiv, 334 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780230573949
Available:*
Library | Item Barcode | Call Number | Material Type | Item Category 1 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Searching... | 30000010258180 | HV6626.5 H375 2008 | Open Access Book | Book | Searching... |
On Order
Summary
Summary
This book provides a disturbing account of the reality of child abuse. Based on data from 152 countries, Einar Helander considers the physical, societal, economic and judicial consequences of child abuse, proposing a universal, community-based prevention programme.
Author Notes
EINAR HELANDER is an advisor to the Portuguese National Commission for the Protection of Children and Youth, as well as to the World Health Organization, having worked previously as the WHO's Chief Medical Officer for the Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Programme. He has taught at universities for almost 60 years, and has founded successful initiatives creating community-based health and social programmes.
Table of Contents
| List of Photographs | p. ix |
| List of Tables | p. xi |
| List of Figures | p. xii |
| List of Boxes | p. xiii |
| Foreword | p. xiv |
| Foreword | p. xvi |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xxi |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xxiii |
| Part I Introduction | p. 1 |
| 1 You Cut a Rose and Release a Tornado | p. 3 |
| 2 Definitions, Materials and Methods | p. 20 |
| 3 Mirrors of the Past | p. 36 |
| Part II Micro-system Violence towards Biological and Social Orphans | p. 43 |
| 4 Children in Residential Institutions | p. 45 |
| 5 Children On Their Own | p. 62 |
| 6 Parent Deprivation: Consequences and Alternatives | p. 78 |
| Part III Damaging Effects of the Meso-system: Childhood Violence in Birth Families and its Consequences | p. 85 |
| 7 Prevalence of Childhood Violence | p. 87 |
| 8 Micro-system Consequences and Upstream Effects of Childhood Violence | p. 133 |
| Part IV Roots of Violence | p. 159 |
| 9 Causes of and Contributors to Childhood Violence and the Potential for Primary Prevention | p. 161 |
| 10 Human Services for the Child Victims: Care of Somatic and Mental Disorders and Rehabilitation | p. 203 |
| Part V The Global System: Perspectives of Human Rights, Evolution, Development and Progress | p. 211 |
| 11 Human Rights and Human Wrongs | p. 213 |
| 12 Poverty, Inequality and Solidarity | p. 223 |
| 13 The Sacrifice of the Poor | p. 234 |
| Part VI Primary Child Violence Prevention by Exo-systems | p. 255 |
| 14 A Community-based Child Defence and Support (CDS) Programme | p. 257 |
| 15 Conclusion | p. 281 |
| Annex | p. 284 |
| Notes | p. 288 |
| Bibliography | p. 297 |
| Index | p. 330 |
