title: Child abuse: a literature review.
abstract: The following is a summary of a recently published review of Swedish and international literature concerning children exposed to abuse and neglect or manifesting failure to thrive. The review is the first report appearing from the so-called PRU group in Uppsala--Psycho-social Risk Children in Uppsala. The group is a multidisciplinary team engaged in a research project about Uppsala children exposed to mental, social and physical risks in their homes. The project is financed by the Save the Children Fund, which has also contributed to the printing costs of the book. Various professions are represented in the research team, namely social work, family therapy, child psychiatry, child psychology, paediatrics, and sociology. The complete review was published in the autumn of 1977 under the following title: Dagmar Lagerberg/PRU-gruppen: Föräldravåld mot barn. En litteraturstudie (PRU group: Child abuse by parents. A literature review). A second main report, presenting the aims, material, methods, and results of the project, is planned for publication in 1979.
mesh_terms: D001497:Battered Child Syndrome; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011379:Prognosis; D011584:Psychology; D012306:Risk; D012940:Social Problems; D012947:Social Work; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013812:Therapeutics