Abstract Background and Purpose Child protective services (CPS) contact is consistently
linked with poverty in the US, and empirical evidence is mounting to indicate that disparate …

The COVID-19 pandemic raised serious concerns about child maltreatment, which is known
to increase in frequency and severity during times of high stress. The present study used …

Background Positive parental interactions may buffer maltreated children from poor
psychosocial outcomes. The study aims to evaluate the associations between various types …

Background and aims Children's initial reports often play a key role in the identification of
maltreatment, and a sizeable amount of scientific research has examined how children …

To prevent children from reentering the welfare system, it is crucial to understand the role of
caseworker visits after reunification on reentry and identify the factors related to reentry …

In this special issue, innovative research teams expanded work on the effects of the COVID-
19 pandemic and lockdowns on child maltreatment by assessing these effects on treatment …

To examine the role of subjective and objective poverty in relation to child maltreatment
through parenting aggravation, the current study selected the biological mothers in wave 5 …

Objectives: In cases of child neglect, intervention depends on accurate identification and
reporting. Prior work has shown that individuals, especially those of high socioeconomic …

Child neglect is the most widely reported and substantiated form of maltreatment in the
United States. Although the federal government establishes the minimal definition, acts, and …

This narrative illuminates need for students and clinicians to be well prepared to face
ethically and structurally complex realities of identifying and responding to children who …