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Published quarterly, Child Maltreatment (CM) is the official journal of APSAC, the nation's largest interdisciplinary child maltreatment professional organization. The objective of CM is to foster professional excellence in the field of child abuse and neglect by reporting current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a form immediately useful to practitioners and researchers. View full journal description

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Family-Level Mediators in the Intergenerational Transmission of Maternal Childhood Trauma: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Pooled Effect Measures

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Call for Papers: Special Issue: The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA): Policy, Implementation, Equity, and Outcomes

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  • Katie Maguire-Jack
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Who Learns What? Sustained Knowledge Retention Six Months after Receiving a School Delivered Violence Awareness Programme Among Primary School Children in the UK

  • Zain Kurdi
  • Ugur Ozdemir
  • John Devaney
  • Nicky Stanley
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Stability of Treatment Effects and Caregiver-Reported Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children and Adolescents

  • Jonathan Felix Benjamin Thielemann
  • Barbara Kasparik
  • Julia König
  • Johanna Unterhitzenberger
  • Rita Rosner
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Validation of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) in the Context of Trauma-Focused Treatment

  • Chris M. Hoeboer
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  • Willem van der Does
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From Maltreatment to Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: The Relevance of Emotional Maltreatment

  • Franziska Schlensog-Schuster
  • Jan Keil
  • Kai Von Klitzing
  • Gabriela Gniewosz
  • Charlotte C. Schulz
  • Andrea Schlesier-Michel
  • Steffi Mayer
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  • Annette M. Klein
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  • Jody T. Manly
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  • Lars O. White
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Predictors of Abuse Duration in In-Person Child Sexual Grooming Cases

  • Kayla D. Schick
  • Kaila C. Bruer
  • Katie A. Berens
  • Angela D. Evans
  • Heather L. Price
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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Child Protective Services Reporting, Substantiation and Placement, With Comparison to Non-CPS Risks and Outcomes: 2005–2019

  • Brett Drake
  • Dylan Jones
  • Hyunil Kim
  • John Gyourko
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Prevalence of Diverse Genders and Sexualities in Australia and Associations With Five Forms of Child Maltreatment and Multi-type Maltreatment

  • Daryl J. Higgins
  • David Lawrence
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  • Holly E. Erskine
  • David Finkelhor
  • Rosana Pacella
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  • Hannah J. Thomas
  • James G. Scott
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Contexts and Characteristics of Imaged-Based Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children: Incident Dynamics in a National Sample

  • Heather A. Turner
  • David Finkelhor
  • Deirdre Colburn
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Using an AI-based avatar for interviewer training at Children’s Advocacy Centers: Proof of Concept

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  • Martine B. Powell
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Cumulative Childhood Maltreatment and Depression Among Incarcerated Youth: Impulsivity and Hopelessness as Potential Intervening Variables

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