The Neglected Child: How to Recognize, Respond, and Prevent
Author(s): Heather Johnson Med (Author), Laura Wilhelm (Author), Ginger Welch PhD (Author)
Publisher: Gryphon House,U.S.
Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2013
Edition: Illustrated
Language: English
Print length: 128 pages
ISBN-10: 087659478X
ISBN-13: 9780876594780
Book Description
The Neglected Child provides everything educators and caregivers need to know to identify and intervene in neglectful situations, while also creating a safe, nurturing, and protective environment for young children. From defining the different types and levels of severity of neglect to establishing suspicion and reporting neglectful situations, this book is filled with helpful information from expert psychologists and educators in the field today.
Each chapter includes a brief quiz to assess chapter learning and Notes from the Field that represent real-life stories the authors have encountered in their work. The appendices at the end of the text include reproducible handouts, sample statements for parent handbooks, self-assessments for teachers, and important contact information to use when reporting neglect.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Child neglect is a form of child maltreatment. Child neglect is a deficit in meeting a child’s basic needs. Furthermore, child neglect is the failure to provide basic physical health care, supervision, nutrition, emotional nurturing, education or safe housing. Child neglect is the most frequent form of abuse of children, with children that are born to young mothers at a substantial risk for neglect. In 2008, the U.S. state and local child protective services received 3.3 million reports of children being abused or neglected. Maltreated children/youth were about five times more likely to have a first emergency department presentation for suicide-related behavior compared to their peers, in both boys and girls. Children/youth permanently removed from their parental home because of substantiated child maltreatment are at an increased risk of a first presentation to the emergency department for suicide-related behavior. The collaborative work of Ginger Welch (a licensed pediatric psychologist and certified early childhood educator), Heather Johnson (Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, Oklahoma City University), and Laura Wilhelm (Oklahoma Public School District Curriculum Coordinator), “The Neglected Child: How to Recognize, Respond, and Prevent” is a 128 page compendium comprised of what every adult (and especially classroom teachers) need to know on creating a safe, nurturing, and protective environment for young children who are suffering or are recovering from parental neglect. Deftly organized, informed and informative, and thoroughly ‘reader friendly’ in presentation and text, “The Neglected Child: How to Recognize, Respond, and Prevent” is very strongly recommended for professional, school, community, and library troubled child instructional reference collections. – Midwest book Reviews
From the Back Cover
The Neglected Child provides everything educators and caregivers need to know to identify and intervene in neglectful situations, while also creating a safe, nurturing, and protective environment for young children. From defining the different types and levels of severity of neglect to establishing suspicion and reporting neglectful situations, this book is filled with helpful information from expert psychologists and educators in the field today.
Each chapter includes a brief quiz to assess chapter learning and Notes from the Field that represent real-life stories the authors have encountered in their work. The appendices at the end of the text include reproducible handouts, sample statements for parent handbooks, self-assessments for teachers, and important contact information to use when reporting neglect.
About the Author
Heather Johnson, MEd, is a curriculum coordinator for a public school district serving nearly 15,000 children in the state of Oklahoma. She has an extensive background in early childhood education and has worked in both the private and public sectors. Heather is an active child advocate, participating in local, state, and national events to promote the importance of early childhood and the prevention of child abuse and maltreatment. In her spare time, Heather works as a grant writer working to better the lives of at-risk children and teen parents.
Laura Wilhelm, EdD, is an assistant professor of early childhood education in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Central Oklahoma. Over the past twenty years, she has worked in many different urban and suburban schools as both an early childhood educator and elementary school teacher.
Ginger Welch, Ph.D. is Clinical Associate Professor and Infant Mental Health Specialist at Oklahoma State University. She is a private practice psychologist specializing in evaluation and consultation services to infants and young children, including those who have been abused or neglected. She also serves children with chronic or serious health conditions including Sickle Cell Disease, cancer, and prematurity. She has presented her work on child maltreatment at many national conferences including the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the American Psychological Association, and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. She has also taught nationally and internationally on topics related to child development, child abuse, and counseling, and is the author of one tween fiction novel, “The Dream Reader.” She lives in Oklahoma City and is the proud mom of one daughter, Addy Grace.
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