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Neglect and Failure to Thrive

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Neglect is the most common form of child maltreatment, representing approximately 64% of the 905,000 substantiated cases of maltreatment in the United States in 2006 (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2008). It represents a situation in which there is a risk of harm to a child because the child’s basic physical, supervisional, medical, emotional, and/or educational needs are not being met (DePanfilis, 2006) (see Table 7.1 for categorization of different forms of neglect). State laws define child neglect in various ways but conceptually neglect may be defined as

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Ben-Galim, T., Louis, P.T., Giardino, A.P. (2010). Neglect and Failure to Thrive. In: Giardino, A., Lyn, M., Giardino, E. (eds) A Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Child Physical Abuse and Neglect. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0702-8_7

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