C. Wekerle, D. A. Wolfe, J. A. Cohen, D. S. Bromberg, & L. Murray (eds), 2019: Childhood Maltreatment (2nd Edition)
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BOOK REVIEW
C. Wekerle, D. A. Wolfe, J. A. Cohen, D. S. Bromberg, & L. Murray (eds), 2019: Childhood Maltreatment (2nd Edition) Hogrefe Publishing Corporation, Boston, MA, 2019. 99 pp., $29.80. ISBN 978-0-88937-418-8 Jennifer M. Geiger1 Published online: 6 March 2019 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019
This is the second edition of the book, Childhood Maltreatment, which is part of the Advances in Psychotherapy— Evidence-Based Practice series offered by the publisher. The purpose of this text is to provide an overview of child maltreatment, the diagnostics and indications of, and the treatment for, child maltreatment. The book is divided into eight chapters, with the first four addressing the above mentioned overviews, followed by a case vignette, recommendations for further reading, references, and an appendix of tools and resources. The authors are well-known and recognized for their work in the field of child maltreatment and its treatment. The book begins with an overview of the types of child maltreatment, the prevalence, and provides a brief discussion of the course, prognosis, and context for child maltreatment. This information is presented in a way that is helpful to practitioners primarily, but also students and other human service workers who have a basic understanding of child maltreatment. This chapter also provides important information about recognizing, reporting, and disclosing child maltreatment along with some ethical considerations and controversial circumstances for practitioners to consider. There is a short chapter that follows that describes the theories and models of child maltreatment. Although this chapter is useful in providing a framework for understanding child maltreatment, it’s possible that the information provided is not in depth enough for practitioners to be able to apply it to current work with families and children affected by child maltreatment. However, the overview of theories
* Jennifer M. Geiger [email protected] 1
Jane Addams College of Social Work, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 1040 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607, USA
and models could help students who are also learning about the antecedents and consequences and the risk and protective factors of child maltreatment. The authors provide an overview of the diagnosis and treatment indications of child maltreatment for readers as they discuss some of the co-occurring conditions, disorders, and behaviors that children and adults may exhibit as a result of experiencing child maltreatment. Again, this section is very much an overview and there more discussion of types of assessment tools could be helpful to practitioners and students. The vignettes offered during this section are helpful in providing context to the diagnosis and indicators of child maltreatment. The chapter focused on treatment of child maltreatment utilizes a trauma-informed approach to practice and treatment. The authors go on to provide a description of traumafocused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), a r
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