Citation

Appleton JV, Sidebotham P. Child Abuse Rev. 2017; 26(6): 405-410.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/car.2505

PMID

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Abstract

This issue of Child Abuse Review brings together a number of papers focusing on different aspects of the physical abuse of children, including issues to do with professional assessment, young people's disclosure of physical abuse and a preventative measure for parents to help reduce non-accidental head injury in babies. Physical abuse of children can involve '...hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning or scalding, drowning, suffocating or otherwise causing physical harm to a child. Physical harm may also be caused when a parent or carer fabricates the symptoms of, or deliberately induces, illness in a child' (HM Government, 2015, p. 92). Physical abuse can result in serious long-term problems for children's social, emotional and physical development and at its most severe, results in serious injury or death. In a previous issue of Child Abuse Review, Sidebotham (2015) reported on some of the challenges and complexities of physical abuse, noting in particular some of the dilemmas that professionals face in relation to recognition, diagnosis and management.

Language: en