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Ben Goodman

Research Scientist, Senior
Center for Child and Family Policy
Sanford Building, Room 256, Box 90539, Durham, NC 27708
201 Science Drive, Box 90539, Durham, NC 27708-0539

Scholarly Works - Book sections


How Belsky’s Model of Child Abuse Has Transformed Scientific Understanding, Clinical Practice, and Public Policy

Book section · January 1, 2025 The history of child maltreatment recognition and response is reviewed. Although Henry Kempe’s identification of the battered child syndrome in 1962 brought the previously unrecognized problem into public view, public policy in the 1970s continued to focus ... Full text Cite