Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Child Abuse

Abuse of children in a family, institutional, or other setting. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)

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Abstract

Abuse of children in a family, institutional, or other setting. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)

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29 entry terms
  • Child Maltreatment
  • Child Mistreatment
  • Abuse, Child
  • Maltreatment, Child
  • Mistreatment, Child
  • Abuse Experiences, Childhood
  • Child Neglect
  • Child Neglect Experiences
  • Child Neglect, Physical
  • Childhood Abuse Experiences
  • Childhood Neglect Experiences
  • Neglect Experience, Childhood
  • Neglect Experiences, Childhood
  • Physical Neglect, Childhood
  • Abuse Experience, Childhood
  • Child Neglect Experience
  • Childhood Abuse Experience
  • Childhood Neglect Experience
  • Childhood Physical Neglect
  • Childhood Physical Neglects
  • Experience, Child Neglect
  • Experience, Childhood Abuse
  • Experience, Childhood Neglect
  • Neglect Experience, Child
  • Neglect, Child
  • Neglect, Childhood Physical
  • Neglect, Physical Child
  • Physical Child Neglect
  • Physical Child Neglects

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14 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, diagnosis, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, mortality, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, statistics & numerical data, therapy, trends.

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check the tag CHILD or specific

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65(64)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Child Abuse. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002649. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002649
  2. Child Abuse. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse
  3. Child Abuse. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167191