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The concept of abuse is a broad one: according to Webster’s Collegiate Thesaurus (1976), some of the connotations of the verb “to abuse” are to belittle, depreciate, disparage, ill-use, maltreat, or mistreat. Despite this wide range of meaning, the conventional usage of the term “child abuse” is restricted to the nonaccidental infliction of severe physical-emotional harm (DHEW 1978). This interpretation emphasizes the aspect of injury to the child. Consistent with such a limited perspective, most research in the area of child abuse has been conducted in medical settings such as emergency rooms and pediatric units. It is obvious that children identified as abused in these settings do not represent the general population of abused children, mainly because of the impact of sociodemographic variables on the visibility of the problem.
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Eisikovits, Z., Sagi, A. (1984). Abusing Childrens’s Development Potential: The Case of Moral Development. In: Carmi, A., Zimrin, H. (eds) Child Abuse. Medicolegal Library, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82063-2_3
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