Child Abuse Review

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Suicide in Children and Adolescents: New Interventions and Risk FactorsBy Michelle A.Patriquin and Katrina A.Rufino (eds.), London: Taylor and Francis, 2023. 138 pp. ISBN: 9781032058412	82
‘A Pivotal, Lynch‐Pin Role’ or ‘One Cog in the Wheel’? Irish Primary School Teachers' Beliefs about their Role in Child Protection	30
The effect of the training programme for nursing students on child abuse and neglect knowledge and awareness levels: A randomized controlled study	20
Children and Violence: Agency, Experience, and Representation in and Beyond Armed Conflict, By Christelle MolimaBameka, Jastine C.Barrett, MohamedKamara, KarlHanson, and Mark A.Drumbl (eds.), London:	20
An analysis of child safeguarding cases managed by National Governing Bodies of sport across England and Wales	15
Conceptualization of Child Labour: Contemporary Understanding and Gaps	14
An intensive perinatal mentalisation‐based intervention for women at risk of child removal and the role of restorative relationships	13
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Child protection pathways for newborn infants: A multi‐disciplinary retrospective chart review of an Irish maternity hospital’s records	12
Influence of Childhood Emotional Neglect on Adult Ways of Coping: The Mediating Role of Mindfulness	10
Systems Complexity in Child Protection and Welfare: Policy, Leadership, Practice and EvaluationBy AislingGillen, JohnCanavan, CarmelDevaney, and CarolineMcGregor, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2024. 1	9
Online Sexual Abuse: 5‐Year Child Advocacy Centre Experience	9
Bullying Victimization and Smartphone Addiction of Chinese Adolescents: The Chain Mediating Role of School Belonging and Anxiety/Depression	8
The protective power of friendship, advocacy and activism: A short report on the experiences of Who Cares? members and allies	8
Protecting the World's Children: Public Health, Human Rights, Capabilities by SusanBissell and A.K. ShivaKumar (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 288 pp. £41.12 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐0‐19	8
Attitudes of Nursing Students About Reporting Child Abuse in Izmir, Türkiye: Descriptive Study	8
Implementing a Formulation‐Based Approach in Pre‐Birth Assessments	7
Teaching Protective Behaviours to Young Children: Empowering Young Children to Feel SaferBy Gelenter, C., Bailey, R., Riley, B.. . London: Routledge. 2024, pp. 168. £160.19 (Hardcover). ISBN: 978-1032	7
Families of four‐year‐old children experiencing violence: A national survey of parents and public health nurses on help and support	7
Book Review	7
Understanding practice with culturally and linguistically diverse children and young people who have experienced domestic and family violence: A practitioner perspective	7
Mandatory Reporting of Adverse Childhood Events Identified in the Context of Data Collection: A South Australian Experience	7
Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors: Legal Responses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia, by SineadRing, KateGleeson and KimStevenson. NewYork, Routledge. 2022. pp350. £120 (hardbac	6
‘Nothing happened’: Legal implications of false denials among abused children	6

A Happy Child? A Preliminary Evaluation of Children's Subjective Well‐Being in the Children and Young People Secure Estate	6
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Preventing Child Marriage in Forced Migration Contexts: Practical Insights for Frontline Practitioners in Türkiye	6
Development and initial validation of the me and my child interview to assess parental acceptance–rejection	6
Detecting Child Sexual Abuse in Perpetrators: The Effects of Perpetrator Age and of Training on Observers	6
Understanding the Relation between Short Birth Spacing and Child Maltreatment: Are Associations Due to Parental History of Childhood Abuse and Neglect?	6
Child Protection in India: Assessing Multi‐Disciplinary Response Mechanisms by ParomitaChattoraj (ed.), London and New York: Routledge. 2025. 338 pp. £155.00 (Hardback). ISBN 9781032999951	6
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Building Ever‐Safer Cultures in Football: Learner Experiences of the English Football Association's Safeguarding Children Training	5
‘From their own words’: A co‐produced study interpreting children and young people's experiences of emotional abuse and neglect expressed in anonymous, online peer‐peer message forums	5
Race/Ethnicity and the Sexual Exploitation of Children—A Commentary on the Practice of United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms	5
Child protection and developmental trajectories of children who entered care as infants	5
The regulation of child pornography in China and the United States: A comparative review of laws	4
A Reflective Account of the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) Investigation Into Minority Religious Organisations and Settings	4
Peer Victimization Among a Clinical Sample of Turkish Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder	4
Using self‐report surveys in schools to study violence in alternative care: A methodological approach	4
The Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Care of the Irish State—Professionals' Perspectives	4
Children's Human Rights to ‘Participation’ and ‘Protection’: Rethinking the relationship using Barnahus as a case example	4
A review of the relationship between poverty and child abuse and neglect: Insights from scoping reviews, systematic reviews and meta‐analyses	4
Development of a framework for classifying threat and neglect in childhood: A qualitative study	4
Barnahus Is Coming: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of How Child Sexual Abuse Services at a Dublin Hospital Adapt and Respond	4
The Development of a Community‐Led Child Protection Approach in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries	4
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Evaluation of incest cases in Sivas: Ten‐year retrospective study	4
Safeguarding Our Children and the Vulnerable: Integration and a Platform for Prevention	4
HIV biomedical approaches among sexual minority men with childhood sexual abuse histories: A systematic review	4
Frequency of Child Abuse Before, During and After Confinement by COVID‐19: A Multicentre Cross‐Sectional Study in Bogotá	3
Allying Criminal Justice and Child Protection for Child Victims and Witnesses	3
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Love and Assault: Parents’ Views on Corporal Punishment in School	3
The effect of training about child sexual, physical and emotional abuse	3
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Early Parenting Stress and Later Abuse Risk: Dyadic Analysis of Mediation by Maternal and Paternal Negative Attributions	3
Decolonising Child Protection From Within: Survivor Knowledge as Embodied Epistemologies and Community Practice	3
The spectrum of concern for medical child abuse among adolescents with chronic pain due to central sensitisation	3
The Association Between Parents' Rights‐Based Parenting and Attitudes Towards Refugee Children: A Cross‐Sectional Study	2
Confronting Child Sexual Abuse: Knowledge to Action, By Anne M.Nurse, United States of America: Lever Press in Partnership With Amherst College Press and Michigan Publishing, 2020. 312 pp. £21.97 (pap	2
Editorial	2
Subject: Mainstreaming Emotional Education in Schools in the Philippines	2
Assault Burn Injuries in Children in South Africa: Demographics, Risk Factors and Characteristics	2
‘You're Talking About All These Things You're Doing … It Is Just Seen as the Norm’: Exploring Young People's Perspectives on Disclosing Their Own Use of Harmful Behaviour	2
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‘Where’ Are the Children in Safeguarding Policies of Sport? An Analysis of National and International Discourses in Policy Documentation	2
Hazardous Child Labour and Wellbeing Inequality: Structural and Spatial Drivers in North‐Western Bangladesh	2
Navigating peer relationships: What do friendships look like for children whose parents have mental illnesses?	2
‘It's like a much deeper understanding and you kind of believe them more …’: The value of peer support for young people affected by sexual violence	2
The exploitation of girls in care: An ongoing struggle for recognition	2
Correction to “Psychological and Emotional Harms of Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Children Under the Age of 18: A Systematic Review of the Evidence”	2
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Does money motivate prospective foster parents? Are responses from high vs. low‐income towns different? Evidence from Google advertising	2

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Correction to ‘Parent and Child Agreement on Experience of Potential Traumatic Events’	2
How a collapsing state impacts child safeguarding: Reflecting on the challenges of implementing a hospital‐based child safeguarding program in Lebanon	2
Understanding the Experience of Trauma: Insights From the TARA Practice Model	2
Evidence‐Informed Guidance for Working With Young People Using Abusive Behaviours	2
Unpacking Work‐Related and Sexual Exploitation of Migrant Girls in Ghana's Urban Markets	2
Strengthening the Front Lines: A Child Welfare Programme for Families and Multidisciplinary Professionals	2
Child protection during the perinatal period: Innovation in assessment and practice	1
Empowering Nursing Students to Confidently Report Child Abuse: A Commentary on the Study From Izmir, Türkiye	1
Subsequent child protection contact for a cohort of children reported to child protection prenatally in one Australian jurisdiction	1
Making connections with vulnerable children and families: Creative tools and resources for practice By JanHorwarth, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 2024. £29.99. ISBN: 9781787757950. Illustrated	1
The TSPCAN project: A qualitative evaluation with undergraduate students trained in child abuse prevention in Turkey	1
A short report of a Scottish audit of disability and child protection medical examinations	1
Trauma‐informed care in childcare organisations to support children exposed to child maltreatment: Joint conclusions of four European countries	1
Early Childhood Behavioural Problems and Child Maltreatment: The Mediating Role of Parenting Stress	1
Violence in the Name of Discipline: Estimating the Association of Punishment on Children's Cognitive Development in Thailand	1
Children and sexual‐based online harms: A guide for professionals By CatherineKnibbs, London: Routledge. 2024. £19.99 (p/b). ISBN 9781032427584	1
Challenges to Civilising Sport Through Child Rights	1
Child Welfare Professional Education in Trauma‐Informed Care: A Mixed‐Methods Evaluation Study	1
Correction to “Making the Invisible Visible: A Taiwan‐Informed Response to ‘A Heavy Burden on Small Shoulders’ and a Practical Agenda for Young Carers of Parents With Mental Illness”	1
Stereotypes and unconscious bias in institutional child sexual abuse: Barriers to identification, reporting and prevention	1
The silver lining of parental migration on left‐behind adolescents' academic well‐being in China: A systematic review	1
Qatari mothers’ beliefs in child disciplinary methods and their reported use: A cross‐sectional study	1
Feeding Coparenting Scale (FCS): Validity and Reliability Study of the Turkish Adaptation	1
What Is the Outcome When Schools Report Concern for a Child to the Norwegian Child Welfare and Protection Services?	1
The intersection of child protection and healthcare: Paediatric social admissions	1
Eliminating online child sexual abuse material by RickBrown, Routledge Publisher. 2022. £ 35.99.pp.206. (978‐1‐003‐32726‐4 (ebook). DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003327264	1
Disorganized attachment, mentalization and dissociation in context of childhood trauma: Implications for depressive symptoms	1
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An Analysis of Parents' Experiences of Child Misbehaviour and Control During Ghana's COVID‐19 Lockdown	1
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Factors Influencing Clinicians', Health Visitors' and Social Workers' Professional Judgements, Decision‐Making and Multidisciplinary Collaboration When Safeguarding Children with Burn Injuries: A Qual	1
Digital Dilemmas: How Problematic Social Media Use Links Personality Traits to Adolescent Psychosocial Development	1
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Association Between Violence Exposure Within and Across Contexts and Sleep Problems Among Chinese Children	1
“This is Luxury Help for a Family”: Professionals' Experiences of Combined Parent–Child Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Targeted to Families With Child Maltreatment	1
Child marriage and education in the context of a global pandemic: Exploring the gendered implications of COVID‐inspired school closures in Ghana	1
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Beyond the Cane: Teachers' Perspectives on the Ban of Corporal Punishment in Ghanaian First‐Cycle Schools	1
Correction to “Parental substance misuse and statutory child protection in England: Risk factors and outcomes”	1
Child Fostering and the Question of Child Labour in Northern Ghana's Alleged Witches' Camps	1
Play Therapy and Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Clinical Guide to Practice. By SueannKenney‐Noziska, Routledge, 2026. 286 pp. $65.46. ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐258639‐7	1
Adverse childhood experiences: Pathways to internalising and externalising problems in young adulthood	1
The Role of Awareness Training in Recognising Child Neglect and Abuse Among Health‐Care Professionals	1
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‘Then I Met This Lovely Police Woman’ Young People's Experiences of Engagement with the Criminal Justice System	1
Psychological and Emotional Harms of Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Children Under the Age of 18: A Systematic Review of the Evidence	0
How Safe Is Your Church? What Can We Learn From Children and Young People About Safeguarding in the Church of England?	0
Do Parents Support Professional Mandatory Reporting of Child Maltreatment? A Survey of Parents With Young Children	0
The Child Protection Response to Victims of Technology‐Assisted Child Sexual Abuse	0
Addressing the Complexity of Violent Discipline: A Perspective from Taoyuan Psychiatric Center, Taiwan	0
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False Controversy Regarding Abusive Head Trauma Endangers Vulnerable Children	0
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Child torture: A Washington state case series	0
Hege SteinHelland, MaritSkivenes, and SiriGloppen (Eds.), Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights. Policy Press, 2025; ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐7147‐2 (Paperback), ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐7149‐6 (ePdf)	0
Parental Smartphone Dependency and Its Impact on Child Smartphone Use: Insights From a National Survey	0
‘Crossing the Line’: Child Protection and Welfare Managers' and Social Workers' Experiences of Social Media, Online and Digital Abuse and Harassment in Ireland	0
Neuropsychological and Psychopathological Characteristics of Early Childhood Neglect	0
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High‐Risk Behaviours, Suicide and Social Isolation in Street Adolescents in Iran: A Cross‐Sectional Descriptive Study	0
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Exploring social workers' views on assessing child neglect in England and Wales	0
‘My childhood life falling apart’: A retrospective study of young carers managing parental mental illness in Taiwan	0
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Perceptions About Family Foster Care and Intention of Becoming a Foster Family: A Short Report	0
Friends, peers and safeguarding	0
Conceptualising Domestic Violence and Abuse Within Roma Communities Through a Power and Control Lens	0
A European comparison of screening and referral by childcare professionals of maltreatment in children aged 0–3: A wild goose chase or maybe not	0
Sons and daughters of foster carers: Exposure to risk and harm	0
A current view on the neglected topic of male child sexual abuse in the context of literature	0
Childhood Psychological Abuse and Neglect on Adolescents' Relational Aggression: The Role of Parental Attachment and Rejection Sensitivity	0
Promoting Positive Growth Through Building Developmental Assets for Maltreated Adolescents: A Multiple Mediation Analysis	0
School‐based interventions to reduce teacher violence against children: a systematic review	0
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Assessment of the Knowledge, Awareness and Attitudes Regarding Child Abuse and Neglect Among Healthcare Professionals of Nepal	0
Development and Initial Validation of the Parenting Cyberbullying Preparedness Scale in Mainland China	0
‘She Knows Sh*t’: a Comparison of Young People and Professional Perspectives of a Specialised Child Sexual Exploitation Support Service	0
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Special Issue on Creating a Culture of Child Safety in Sport: Recognising the Need for an Integrative Approach	0
‘Big brothers and sisters have my back’: Benefits and risks of befriending older peers as a strategy to deal with school bullying	0
Psychological Consequences in Victims of Ecclesiastical Sexual Abuse by Catholic Church Representatives: A Qualitative Study in Chile	0
Factorial Validation of the Greek Schema Questionnaire for Children: A Comparison of Community and Clinical Samples	0
Child abuse and neglect: Forensic issues in evidence impact and management, By IndiaBryce, YolandeRobinson, WaynePetherick (Eds.), London: Elsevier Academic Press. 2019. pp. 485. $87.50. ISBN: 9780128	0
Psychometric Properties of Persian Version of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool, Parent Version (ICAST‐P)	0
Adults' interpretation of invitations using the word ‘time’	0
The Influence of Interpersonal Conflict on Smartphone Addiction Among Adolescents: An Examination of the Roles of Relatedness Need Satisfaction and Conflict Management	0
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The unique relationship between childhood sexual abuse, self‐injury and suicide ideation: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation	0
Making the Invisible Visible: A Taiwan‐Informed Response to ‘A Heavy Burden on Small Shoulders’ and a Practical Agenda for Young Carers of Parents With Mental Illness	0
Public health nurses' assessment of the background factors of familicide	0
Giving HOPE and minimising trauma: An intervention to support women who are separated from their babies at birth due to safeguarding concerns	0
A Heavy Burden on Small Shoulders: Perspectives of Social Workers on Young Carers of Parents with Mental Illness	0
Sharenting and the Quiet Normalisation of Digital Child Labour	0
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Adverse childhood experiences and smoking status in children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	0
The role of parents' attitudes towards children's use of communication technologies and school climate in coping with cyberbullying among high school students in Turkey	0
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A review of safeguarding in grassroots football: Children and young people's perspectives	0
Complex Trauma and Growth in Men Who Have Been Abused as Children and Perpetrated Domestic Violence as Adults	0
Child Fatality Individual Case Reports: A 24‐Year National State‐by‐State Review	0
Developing an Understanding of Complex Trauma Among Child Sexual Assault Survivors in South Africa: Implications for Practice	0
Cyber Child Pornography and Neo‐Legal Responses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0
Parental substance misuse and statutory child protection in England: Risk factors and outcomes	0
Pharyngeal trauma: When to suspect physical abuse	0
Bringing ‘care’ back into locked residential institutions: What can we learn from adolescents' experiences of secure care?	0
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‘Letting you share when you need to share’: navigating the potential and precarity of friends and peers for UK young people after sexual abuse in adolescence	0
Consequences of parental neglect of academic performance Brazilian child	0
Child Ordination in Sri Lankan Buddhist Monasteries: Is It a Cultural Exception or a Cause for Concern?	0
Safeguarding Elite Child Athletes at Mega Sporting Events	0
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Analysis of child abuse by science mapping method	0
Can childbearing and marriage of underage girls be prevented? A study of population data in Turkey	0
The ‘Connecting Moment’: A Narrative Analysis of Late Awareness in Child Sexual Abuse Survivors	0
An Investigation Into the Positive and Negative Outcomes for Clinicians Working With Child Survivors of Sexual Abuse	0
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Participatory Approaches in Child and Family Social Work: Creating Meaningful Relationships and Empowering Families by CliveDiaz, SammiFitz‐Symonds and TimFisher, Bristol: Policy Press, 2026. 256 pp.	0
Trends in the Annual Incidence Rates of Child Sexual Abuse and Child Maltreatment over the Past 25 Years in the United States	0
A Multidisciplinary Case‐Based Training to Improve Turkish Family Physicians' Knowledge and Competence in Managing Child Abuse and Neglect Cases: A Quasi‐Experimental Study	0
Preventing Child Abuse: Family‐Based Programs to Improve Resiliencies and Address Substance UseBy EdwardCohen, RosemaryTisch, MelissaSantos, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2026. 405 pp. $86.41 (	0
Emotional awareness, child maltreatment and child exposed to intimate partner violence: A systematic review of their relationship with symptoms and protective factors	0
Gender‐Based Violence in Children's SportGretchenKerr, Routledge Publishing, 2023. 978‐1‐003‐03513‐8 (eBook), 10.4324/9781003035138.	0
From Childhood Maltreatment to Intimate Partner Violence: The Mediating Role of Borderline Personality Disorder and PTSD	0
Context matters: Conceptualising and operationalising the contextual prevention of child sexual abuse	0
Complaints Are Just a Waste of Everyone's Time: What the Statutory Children's Social Care Complaints Investigation Framework Can Tell Us About Practice	0
The positive and negative effects of working with child sexual abuse for health and social care professionals: A systematic review	0
Measuring accumulation: Constructing a tool for evaluating cumulative harm in children engaged with an intensive family support service	0
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Hyaline Fibromatosis Syndrome Presenting as Abuse	0
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Building Rapport in Interviews with Adolescent Trafficking Victims	0
Child sexual exploitation and abuse disclosure and help‐seeking: A glimpse of global South data	0
Oxford handbook of child protection systems. By Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert, Marit Skivenes, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 1016 (hardback) £138.99 ISBN: 9780197503546 https://doi.org	0
‘As if I Came Out of a Bunch of Rotten Apples Intact’: Microaggressive Experiences of Individuals Growing Up in Children's Institutions in Türkiye	0
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Development and Feasibility Evaluation of a Swedish Screening Tool for Child Abuse and Neglect	0
Suspected Caregiver‐Fabricated Illness Presenting as Osteomyelitis: A Case Report Illustrating the Diagnostic Challenges of Munchausen by Proxy: A Case Report and Review	0
Disclosure of parental physical abuse: Patterns in disclosure attempts among Norwegian teenagers	0
Fifteen Years of Case Presentations at the Helfer Society Annual Meeting: The Ongoing Value of Case Reports. “We See What We Look for. We Look for What We Know.”	0
Mapping Childhood Adversity in Youth in Correctional Facilities in South Korea: A Network Analysis	0
Commercial sexual exploitation of children in Zimbabwe: A threat to human and social development	0
Child sexual abuse reported by adult survivors: Legal responses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia By SinéadRing, KateGleeson, KimStevenson, Routledge New York. 2022. pp. 338. £130.00 (hbk);	0
Coping With Abuse—Child Referees in Football: Is It All Just Part of the Job?	0
A thematic analysis of the involvement of children and families in Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews in England	0
Training Student Nurses on Recognition and Reporting of Child Maltreatment: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study	0
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Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Sexual Abuse Prevention: A Study on Preschool‐Aged Children's Parents in Gorgan, Iran	0
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Children, the Law and the Welfare Principle: Perspectives From Australia & New Zealand, By KerryO'Halloran, Routledge: London, 2024. 324 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐254220‐1	0
Proactive and reactive sibling aggression and their mediating effects on the relationship between exposure to parental violence and adulthood intimate partner violence perpetration	0
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Book Review: Offenders and the Sexual Abuse of Children: Interventions and Limitations	0
Speak out, stay safe: Including children with special educational needs and disabilities in an evaluation of an abuse prevention programme	0
Re: Let's not overlook those children who are subject to ‘Care Orders at home’.	0
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The Prevalence of Violence Against Children in Organized Sport in Poland	0
Uncovering the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse in Pakistan: A Statistical Analysis of Cultural and Societal Determinants	0
Enhancing child protection responses in oral health practice: A scoping review of evidence‐based approaches	0
Circular reasoning, confessions and abusive head trauma: A critical analysis of Edwards et al. (2020)	0
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Childhood Emotional Abuse and Adult Mental Health: Does Whom You Interact With Matter?	0
Does Harsh Parenting Really Harm? A Systematic Review of Studies in China	0
Cultural Sensitivity vs. Child Protection: The Opposing Pressures Failing Charedi Children	0
An Investigation of Factors Affecting the Ability to Determine Symptoms and Risks of Child Abuse and Neglect in Midwifery and Nursing Students	0
The Effect of Structured Case‐Based Child Abuse and Neglect Education on Nursing Students' Knowledge and Awareness Levels	0
‘In practice it can be so much harder’: Young people's approaches and experiences of supporting friends experiencing domestic abuse	0
School Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, Witness and Health‐Related Quality of Life (HRQoL): The Difference Between Boys and Girls	0
Drawing and Narrating: Experiences of Children Rescued From Trafficking on Lake Volta	0
Association Between State‐Level Teen Birth Rates and Referral for Child Maltreatment	0
Self‐Esteem, Family Support and Online Grooming Risk Among Adolescents: The Role of Problematic Internet Usage	0