2016
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-016-0385-x
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Defining Child Maltreatment Among Lay People and Community Professionals: Exploring Consensus in Ratings of Severity

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“…Child maltreatment broadly means any act of commission (i.e., to do something) and/or omission (failure to act) by a parent or caregiver, which results in serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or has the potential to cause harm to a child (McCoy & Keen, 2013). Most countries have provided legal standards for definitions of maltreatment (e.g., Calheiros, Monteiro, Patrício, & Carmona, 2016;Jackson, McGuire, Tunno, & Makanui, 2019;Stowman & Donohue, 2005). These definitions, however, may entail a set of problems: (a) they provide only minimum standards and use broad terms; (b) they do not define subtypes of maltreatment (Portwood, 1998;Runyan & English, 2006); (c) some of them may address endangerment and harm, whereas others only address harm (Fallon et al, 2010;Slack et al, 2003); (d) when these definitions are based on state statutes they also vary due to interpretation of vague language, particularly about setting boundaries (Barnett, Manly, & Cicchetti, 1993;Calheiros et al, 2016;Portwood, 1998); and (e) the criteria to what act(s) constitute maltreatment are somewhat different from state to state (Jackson et al, 2019).…”
Section: Child Maltreatment Definitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Child maltreatment broadly means any act of commission (i.e., to do something) and/or omission (failure to act) by a parent or caregiver, which results in serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or has the potential to cause harm to a child (McCoy & Keen, 2013). Most countries have provided legal standards for definitions of maltreatment (e.g., Calheiros, Monteiro, Patrício, & Carmona, 2016;Jackson, McGuire, Tunno, & Makanui, 2019;Stowman & Donohue, 2005). These definitions, however, may entail a set of problems: (a) they provide only minimum standards and use broad terms; (b) they do not define subtypes of maltreatment (Portwood, 1998;Runyan & English, 2006); (c) some of them may address endangerment and harm, whereas others only address harm (Fallon et al, 2010;Slack et al, 2003); (d) when these definitions are based on state statutes they also vary due to interpretation of vague language, particularly about setting boundaries (Barnett, Manly, & Cicchetti, 1993;Calheiros et al, 2016;Portwood, 1998); and (e) the criteria to what act(s) constitute maltreatment are somewhat different from state to state (Jackson et al, 2019).…”
Section: Child Maltreatment Definitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, rapidly changing global demographics resulting in contact among diverse populations emphasize cultural conflict in many domains, including the issue of child abuse and maltreatment (Nadan et al., 2015: 41). In addition, discrepancies between professionals’ and lay people’s definitions complicate the disclosure of children at risk of abuse and maltreatment (Calheiros et al., 2016; Malley-Morrison and Hines, 2004). In other words, social, cultural, and contextual aspects shape our understanding of what constitutes maltreatment.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Malley-Morrison and Hines (2004: 4) stated that difficulties in defining abuse, neglect, and maltreatment long have challenged workers in the family violence field. Moreover, in the past few decades, the overlap between domestic violence and child maltreatment has drawn increased attention (e.g., Hartley, 2002; Osofsky, 2003; Postmus and Merrit, 2009), raising the question of whether domestic violence should be included in the definition of child maltreatment (e.g., Calheiros et al., 2016; Postmus and Merritt, 2009). Several researchers have suggested that experiencing domestic violence should be considered a fifth type of child abuse (e.g., Holden, 2003; Kloppen et al., 2015), which may be potentially as harmful as being the target of violence (Callaghan and Alexander, 2015; Holt et al., 2008; Øverlien, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the overlap between domestic violence and child maltreatment has raised questions over the years as to whether experiences of domestic violence should be included in the definition of maltreatment (cf. Edleson, 1999;Calheiros, Monteiro, Patrício & Carmona, 2016;Postmus & Merritt, 2010). Edleson (1999) argues against such inclusion for two reasons.…”
Section: Terminologiesmentioning
confidence: 99%