Module 2: Child Maltreatment
Introduction
The third presentation in Module 2, Child Maltreatment, introduces you to the scope of the child maltreatment problem. In this presentation, you will learn about types of child maltreatment, the occurrence and consequences of child maltreatment in the United States, the application of the Socio-Ecological Model to child maltreatment, promising practices, and how primary prevention broadens the work of those working in child maltreatment prevention.
Competencies addressed:
- Ability to describe and explain child maltreatment as a major social and health problem
- Explain how child maltreatment is preventable
- Explain the interrelationship of child maltreatment with other forms of violence
- Identify promising practices in the prevention of child maltreatment
Learning objectives:
- Describe the types and scope of child maltreatment
- Describe the consequences of child maltreatment
- Describe risk and protective factors at the individual, relationship, community and societal levels
- Describe relationship between child maltreatment and selected other forms of violence
- Describe selected promising practices in primary prevention
- Describe other resources for information on child maltreatment
Suggested prerequisites: Module One ( Part 1: Moving Upstream: The Story of Prevention, Part 2: The Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention, and Part 3: The Socio-Ecological Model: A Pathway to Prevention)
Length of presentation: 20 minutes
Terms used in this presentation: Prevention, Protective factors, Risk factors, Socio-Ecological Model
Created by: Desmond Runyan, MD, DrPH; Elizabeth Knight, MSW; and Janet Place, MPH
Narrated by: Janet Place, MPH
Music: Janet Place, MPH
Reviewers: Carol Runyan, Injury Prevention Research Center; Sandra Alexander, Jennifer Middlebrooks, and James Mercy, The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Date of release: June 2006