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Product Description This book on child protection services should stimulate critical thinking and informed discussion for those professionals and educators concerned with the quality of children's protective services. Presenting scholarly reports on false allegations, "Assessing child maltreatment reports" tackles the age-old problem of deciding which reports, verbal or written, represent truth and which falsehood. When one deals with accusations in the area of child maltreatment, special problems are posed. This resource brings home the complexity and seriousness of confronting the need to separate true reports from false reports. Given the serious consequences of reports of maltreatment, determining the accuracy or inaccuracy of such reports is of major critical importance to all concerned and the parents, children, and professionally involved. This book deals practically with the everyday work of assessing the validity and reliability of maltreatment reports and guides professionals through rough waters of finding truth with helpful research. It offers hope for establishing a deeper understanding of the broad system of child protection and consequently, enables professionals to better handle individual crises and cases. Containing a range of chapters - authored by leading academic researchers and practitioners in child welfare services in the United States - examining the policy and practice issues related to false allegations of child abuse and neglect, this volume provides guideposts for further research and discussion. College and university students in child welfare and related programs, human service practitioners working in child protective and welfare services, and the larger public - both parents and professionals working with children - who have an interest in this important issue, should find "Assessing child maltreatment reports" a compassionate approach to a sensitive issue.
