Troubled Youth, Troubled Families: Understanding Families at Risk for Adolescent Maltreatment
Politics and government, General non-fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
The 1970s witnessed a growing concern and awareness regarding child abuse, an awareness which gradually extended to include the maltreatment of adolescents. In the 1980s a number of intervention projects dealing with this particular problem were started. Troubled Youth, Troubled… Families is one of the first full-length reports to deal with adolescent abuse.