title: Psychosocial aspects of child abuse for primary care pediatricians.
abstract: Childhood is an image that advertisers use to conjure up feelings of care-free innocence. Society frequently calls for protecting our children and creating strong, healthy families. Yet thousands of children experience violence on a regular basis, and their lives are irretrievably altered. For these children, the sites of violence and not war-torn villages or crime-ridden streets but their own homes. This article provides primary care physicians with basic information about the psychosocial aspects of recognition and prevention of child abuse.
authors.affiliation: Child Protection Center, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Freitag
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lazoritz
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kini
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D008499:Medical Records; D010372:Pediatrics