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Introduction and Commentary: Preventing Child Abuse

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C. Henry Kempe: A 50 Year Legacy to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect

Part of the book series: Child Maltreatment ((MALT,volume 1))

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This chapter introduces Approaches to Preventing Child Abuse: The Health Visitor’s Concept, the paper by C. Henry Kempe that is the focus of this section, and summarizes the commentaries written in response to this paper.

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Krugman, R.D. (2013). Introduction and Commentary: Preventing Child Abuse. In: Krugman, R., Korbin, J. (eds) C. Henry Kempe: A 50 Year Legacy to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect. Child Maltreatment, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4084-6_14

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