How does one investigate a child maltreatment case when the victim is blind, mute, deaf, mentally retarded, or confined to an institution? Special Children, Special Risks presents analysis, recommendations, and related research from social work, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, and education essential for establishing and maintaining safe environments for handicapped children.
This book brings together a diverse group of experts to pool their knowledge and share their concerns about the risks of abuse faced by handicapped children. The contributors' perspectives come from the fields of medicine, social work, developmental psychology, psychiatry, clinical psychology, education, child welfare, law, public policy, and journalism.
- ISBN10 0202360458
- ISBN13 9780202360454
- Publish Date 1 May 1987
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Out of Print 16 October 2015
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint AldineTransaction
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 311
- Language English