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This journal assignment requires you to go back to re-read part of REVEL Chapter 10 on Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood, specifically the section on Child Maltreatment towards the end of the chapter. After re-reading this section, you should be able to identify the different factors that increase rates of childhood abuse and neglect.
Respond by answering these questions:
What does the term maltreatment mean?
What is the most commonly reported type of child maltreatment, according to your textbook?
Identify some of the most common maltreatment risk factors (things that increase the possibility of being abused or neglected). List at least 4 of them.
In your own opinion, is spanking the same thing as abuse? Were you spanked as a child? Do you believe it was good or bad for you? Why or why not?
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