Table Of ContentPreventing Child MaltreatMent
Duke Series in Child Development and Public Policy
Kenneth a. dodge and Martha Putallaz, Editors
aggression, antisocial Behavior, and violence among girls:
a developmental Perspective
Martha Putallaz and Karen L. Bierman, Editors
enhancing early attachments: theory, research, intervention, and Policy
Lisa J. Berlin, Yair Ziv, Lisa Amaya-Jackson,
and Mark T. Greenberg, Editors
african american Family life: ecological and Cultural diversity
Vonnie C. McLoyd, Nancy E. Hill,
and Kenneth A. Dodge, Editors
deviant Peer influences in Programs for Youth: Problems and Solutions
Kenneth A. Dodge, Thomas J. Dishion,
and Jennifer E. Lansford, Editors
immigrant Families in Contemporary Society
Jennifer E. Lansford, Kirby Deater-Deckard,
and Marc H. Bornstein, Editors
Understanding Peer influence in Children and adolescents
Mitchell J. Prinstein and Kenneth A. Dodge, Editors
Preventing Child Maltreatment: Community approaches
Kenneth A. Dodge and Doriane Lambelet Coleman, Editors
Preventing
Child Maltreatment
Community Approaches
Edited by
Kenneth a. dodge
doriane laMBelet ColeMan
Foreword by J. B. Pritzker
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Preventing child maltreatment : community approaches / edited by Kenneth
A. Dodge, Doriane Lambelet Coleman.
p. cm. — (Duke series in child development and public policy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59385-973-2 (hardcover)
1. Child abuse—United States. 2. Abused children—Services for—United States.
3. Social work with children—United States. I. Dodge, Kenneth A. II. Coleman,
Doriane Lambelet.
HV741P727 2009
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about the editors
Kenneth A. Dodge, PhD, is the William McDougall Professor of Public
Policy Studies and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke Uni-
versity, where he is also Director of the Center for Child and Family Policy.
He has been honored with the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
from the American Psychological Association and the Senior Scientist Award
from the National Institutes of Health.
Doriane Lambelet Coleman, JD, is Professor of Law at Duke University,
where she teaches courses and seminars on children and the law, among
other topics. Her scholarship focuses on the impact of culture on the ways
in which women and children are treated in the law. Her most recent work
is concerned with child maltreatment in immigrant families and the legal
ethics of pediatric research.
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Contributors
Robert T. Ammerman, PhD, ABPP, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of
Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
Pilar Baca, RN, MSN, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado
Denver School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado
Christina Christopoulos, PhD, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina
Robert Cole, PhD, School of Nursing, University of Rochester Medical Center,
Rochester, New York
Doriane Lambelet Coleman, JD, Duke University Law School, Durham,
North Carolina
Deborah Daro, PhD, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Kenneth A. Dodge, PhD, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina
John Eckenrode, PhD, Family Life Development Center and Department
of Human Development, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York
Charles Henderson, MA, Department of Human Development, College of Human
Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
John Holmberg, PsyD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver
School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado
Harriet Kitzman, RN, PhD, School of Nursing, University of Rochester Medical
Center, Rochester, New York
Cindy S. Lederman, JD, Juvenile Justice Center, 11th Judicial Circuit,
Miami, Florida
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viii Contributors
Dennis Luckey, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver
School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado
Peter A. Margolis, MD, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine,
Cincinnati, Ohio
Gary B. Melton, PhD, Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life, Clemson
University, Clemson, South Carolina
Robert Murphy, PhD, Center for Child and Family Health, Durham,
North Carolina, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Karen O’Donnell, PhD, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina,
and Center for Child and Family Health, Durham, North Carolina
David L. Olds, PhD, Departments of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Preventive
Medicine, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine,
Denver, Colorado
Ronald J. Prinz, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, South Carolina
Frank W. Putnam, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine,
Cincinnati, Ohio
Desmond Runyan, MD, DrPH, Departments of Social Medicine and Pediatrics,
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill,
North Carolina
Judith B. Van Ginkel, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine,
Cincinnati, Ohio
Michael S. Wald, MA, JD, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California
Jane Waldfogel, PhD, Columbia University School of Social Work,
New York, New York
Adam Zolotor, MD, MPH, Department of Family Medicine, University of North
Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Foreword
The physical maltreatment of young children in the United States is a social
policy problem that leaves a moral blemish on our society and imposes a
barrier to the economic growth of our citizenry. Ever since Dr. Henry Kempe
alerted us all to the plight of the “battered syndrome” child over 35 years
ago, the official rates of child maltreatment in the United States have been
measured at tragically high levels. Every year in the United States, about
a million children are officially substantiated as maltreated. Furthermore,
every study conducted on the topic concludes that the actual rate of mal-
treatment is far greater than official statistics tell us.
In spite of governmental and philanthropic spending of millions of dol-
lars and countless professionals trying their best to prevent children from
being maltreated, it is not clear that we have yet learned how to keep our
children safe from physical abuse and neglect. Heart-warming case stories
and promising programs do provide some glimmers of hope, but we have
not yet been successful in lowering the measured population rate of mal-
treatment among our children. Of those programs that exist, few have been
evaluated adequately, and those that have demonstrated some positive out-
comes have been implemented only in small doses and consequently have
not reached all of their targeted families.
Moreover, communitywide efforts have been too sporadic and too
poorly funded to yield any truly measurable impact. Nationwide campaigns
are welcomed, but their aspirations exceed their realities. New approaches
must be developed and evaluated rigorously, approaches that bring together
leaders in science and our communities to forge effective strategies for pre-
venting maltreatment of children.
The focus of this volume is to bring together the best in scientific the-
ory and evidence, stimulate thinking about community-based realities of
the policy and practice world, determine the best utilization of the philan-
thropic community, and generate new ideas that could achieve real-world
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