Experts in both child physical and sexual abuse are brought together in this volume, which focuses on both child and adult survivors. Contributors explore innovative treatment and prevention approaches, such as school and community violence prevention programmes, and preparation of children who have to testify in court.

Prevention and treatment of child physical abuse: marital conflict, abuse and adversity in the family and child adjustment - a developmental psychopathology perspective, E. Mark Cummings; child physical abuse - review of offender characteristics, Joel S. Milner and Cynthia Dopke; children and adolescents who witness violence - new directions in intervention and prevention, Marlies Sudermann and Peter Jaffe; a cognitive behavioural approach to understanding and treating parents who physically abuse their children, Sandra T. Azar; interrupting the cycle of violence - empowering youth to promote healthy relationships, David A. Wolfe et al; the prenatal early infancy project - preventing child abuse and neglect in the context of promoting maternal and child health, David Olds. Prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse: treatment outcome with sexual abuse, Lucy Berliner; critical issues in the intensive treatment of adults abused as children, John Briere; psychotherapy with sexually abused boys, William Friedrich; the emergence of sexual abuse treatment models within first nations communities, Edward A. Connors; preparing child victims of sexual abuse for courtroom testimony, Louise Sas.