Course Details

How to Detect and Prevent Child Abuse

Course ID 74927

Appelbaum Training Institute

(800) 232-4453

Description

You are about to embark on a special task, the pursuit of knowledge about child abuse. Congratulations to you for wanting to learn all you can about this topic. It will help you a lot in your work with children. You will gain a greater understanding of what they are doing and why.

5.00 Hours

Course Level

Formal

General Continuing Education

Course Category

Early Childhood

Appelbaum Training Institute
Formal Approved

(3 Hours)

(2 Hours)

CDA Content Areas

Planning a safe, healthy, learning environment (2 Hours)
Positive ways to support children's social and emotional development (3 Hours)

Infant Mental Health Core Competency Areas

Family Child Care Home Provider

Child Care Center Staff

Head Start/Early Head Start

Infants (0-12 months)

Toddlers (13-24 months)

Two's (25-36 months)

Preschooler 3's (37-48 months)

Preschool 4's and 5's (49-72 months)

Elementary (K-3rd grade)

Goals and Objectives

In this self-study course, written by Dr. Maryln Appelbaum, you will learn: the reasons child abuse is increasing, the effects of child abuse, emotional abuse and child overindulgence, physical abuse, child neglect, and child sexual abuse, special techniques to help children express feelings, how to set up parent support groups to prevent child abuse, how to detect and report child abuse.

There are no events currently scheduled for this course.