The article provided a comprehensive overview of the children maltreatment problem and services working to reduce the negative consequences of it. Maltreatment of children includes physical, sexual, and emotional violence. In turn, these types of abuse are likely to provoke psychopathologies or developmental issues in a child. Unfortunately, the maltreatment statistics indicate that children from racial and ethnic minorities suffer abuse and neglect more frequently than others. Thus, the children struck by continuous maltreatment need therapy from clinicians acquainted with child care organizations’ constitutional arrangements, do not have any prejudices and possess communication abilities to handle the children. Yet, assessing these children is complex but essential for revealing any developmental issues caused by abuse. Treatment of symptoms and disorders connected with maltreatment should address outside circumstances that may worsen the situation. Additionally, young children demand a careful evaluation in which various carers should be involved to guarantee child care organizations’ intervention effectiveness. Thus, the work briefly illustrates the existing conditions of protecting and curing the maltreated children.
Personally, I recognize the issue of neglect and abuse as the most overwhelming maladies of our society. The various types of harm done to children by their parents or other relatives are shockingly cruel. I am glad that the government of the U.S. funds the child care organizations so that they develop their methods of treating and protecting children who endured aggression, corruption, and indifference from their families. Indeed, people who grow up with memories of abuse develop their disorders which would be reflected in their children’s personalities. Hence, I perceive this as a vicious circle of violence and unhappy lives that could be prevented only by intervention from the outside.
References
C. H. Zeanah & K. L. Humphreys “Child Abuse and Neglect”, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2018, pp. 637— 644)