title: Child Abuse Johnson P Child Abuse Crowood Press 272pp £9.50 1-85223-360-5 [Formula: see text].
abstract: Paul Johnson is a social worker with extensive experience in the field of child protection. In Child Abuse - Understanding theProblem, he carefully and successfully reveals the whole subject of child abuse, dealing with controversies, definition difficulties, different areas of child abuse, legal and local authority procedures, investigations and, refreshingly, treatment issues.