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Abuse - Child, Elder, Sexual

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About This Guide

This is your topic guide to library and web resources for Child, Elder & Sexual Abuse. Use it to find information for your assignments and projects.

Faculty Liaison Librarian: Laura Riggs

Guide maintenance and curation: Natasha Czerechowicz

  • eBooks
  • Databases
  • Videos
  • Assessing Dangerousness: Domestic Violence Offenders and Child Abusers by Jacquelyn Campbell; Jill Theresa Messing
    Publication Date: 2017
    eBook
  • Child Abuse Quick Reference: For Health Care, Social Service, and Law Enforcement Professionals by Randell Alexander; Diana K. Faugno
    Publication Date: 2017
    eBook
  • Child Abuse: Children with Disabilities by Vincent J. Palusci; Dena Nazer
    Publication Date: 2017
    eBook
  • Child Abuse and Neglect: Perceptions, Psychological Consequences and Coping Strategies by Michelle Martinez
    Publication Date: 2016
    eBook
  • Canadian Reference Centre
    • Canadian Content
    Multidisciplinary Canadian research database. Content includes full text journals, magazines, books and biographies, plus thousands of images from the Canadian Press.
  • MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
    Health research database containing scholarly medical, clinical, biomedical and health care journals.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
    Nursing and allied health database. Contains full text, scholarly articles covering pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management and medical law.
  • ProQuest Databases
    Search selected Proquest databases. Subject coverage varies according to the database.
  • TED Talks: Nadine Burke Harris - How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
    Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
  • Recognizing Child Abuse: Neglect and Emotional Abuse
    After watching this program, viewers will be able to clearly define what constitutes neglect and emotional abuse, give several examples of neglect and emotional abuse and their effects on children.
  • Recognizing Child Abuse: Physical Abuse
    After watching this program, viewers will be able to identify many of the specific symptoms of physical abuse, describe the responsibility that professionals have in identifying and reporting abuse, understand the context and prevalence of child abuse in society.
  • TED Talks: Sebastian Bortnik: The Conversation we're not Having About Digital Child Abuse
    We need to talk to kids about the risks they face online, says information security expert Sebastián Bortnik. In this talk, Bortnik discusses the issue of "grooming" -- the sexual predation of children by adults on the internet -- and outlines the conversations we need to start having about technology to keep our kids safe.
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  • Updated: Jun 14, 2022 3:15 PM
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