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Child Maltreatment Data Collection and Related Issues: Selected Bibliography

Prepared by:

Lil Tonmyr
under contract to:

Child Maltreatment Division
Bureau of Reproductive and Child Health
HPB, Health Canada
LCDC Bldg, Tunney's Pasture
A.L. 0601E2
Ottawa, ON K1A 0L2


A Selected, Annotated Bibliography of Child Maltreatment Reporting by Education Professionals

Child Maltreatment Division
Division of Health Surveillance and Epidemiology
Centre for Healthy Human Development
Health Canada
1998


Distribution

Copies of this publication are available free of charge from the:

National Clearinghouse on Family Violence
Health Promotion and Programs Branch
Health Canada
Address Locator 0201A1
Ottawa, Canada  K1A 1B4
(613) 957-2938

Fax: (613) 941-8930
Fax Link: (613) 941-7285 or toll-free: 1-888-267-1233
or call toll-free: 1-800-267-1291

Published by authority of the Minister of Health

This publication can be made available in/on computer diskette/large print/audio-cassette/braille upon request.

© Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, 1997
Cat. H49-110/1997E
ISBN 0-662-26093-7

Acknowledgement:

Child Maltreatment Division is indebted to Dr. Harriet MacMillan for her valuable contribution.

Dr. MacMillan and her colleagues have also developed the paper Investigation of the Measurement of Child Maltreatment (1996) for Human Resources Development Canada.

The abstracts are reprinted with the kind permission of the different publishers.

Most of the abstracts provided in this bibliography are adapted from journal abstracts.

Child Maltreatment Division is indebted to the following people who assisted with the review of this bibliography.

David Allen - National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health Canada
Dr. Lynda Fortin - Direction de l'analyse et de la surveillance de la santé et du bien-être, Québec
Dr. Karl Hanson - Solicitor General Canada
Dr. Harriet MacMillan - Centre for Studies of Children at Risk, Hamilton, Ontario
Barbara Merriam - Justice Canada
Karen Mihorean - Statistics Canada
Gordon Phaneuf - Health Canada
Marianne Saetre - National Resource Centre for Information and Studies on Violence, Norway
Marlyn Willis - Human Resources Development Canada
Dr. David Wolfe - University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

The articles selected for this bibliography were identified by consulting the databases and using the search strategies described below. Those dealing specifically with parenting or child maltreatment data collection were chosen for this document.

Databases Consulted:

Medline (January 1966 - February 1997)
Social Work Abstracts (January 1977 - September 1996)
Sociofile (January 1974 - December 1996)
Social Science Index (February 1983 - December 1996)
Criminal Justice Periodical (January 1975 - February 1996)
HaPI (January 1985 - February 1986 (selective retrospective coverage))
Psychinfo (January 1967 - February 1996)
Cinhal (January 1982 - February 1996)
Sociological Abstracts (January 1963 - February 1996)
Eric (January 1966 - February 1996)

Keywords Related to Child Maltreatment:

Child Abuse, Battered Child Syndrome, Child Neglect, Physical Abuse, Failure to Thrive, Emotional Abuse, Child Sexual Abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Child Maltreatment

These words were combined with:

Survey, Data Collection, Questionnaire, Statistical Data, Surveillance, Reliability and Validity

Keywords Related to Parenting:

Parents, Parental Attitude, Parental Role, Nurturance, Parent-Child Relations, Child Rearing Practices, Child Discipline, Caregivers, Nurturing Behaviour

These words were combined with:

Scaling, Testing, Questionnaires, Models, Statistical Reliability, Test Validity, Reliability, Validity, Measures, Instruments, Test Reliability, Scale Instrument, Psychological Models, Theoretical Questionnaire and Reproducibility of Results

Language:

English


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