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The first volume of Mental Health Issues of Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Strategies is a thorough examination of current knowledge on the way child abuse and neglect can affect a child‚Äôs mental and emotional development. In this volume interdisciplinary professionals focus on the presentation and assessment of trauma with a special focus on post-pandemic emerging trends in diagnosis.This text intends to do the following: ‚Äî Define the problem of child maltreatment conceptually and numerically, using statistics that describe the state of maltreatment and the characteristics of those most affected by it ‚Äî Identify causes and risk factors that appear to affect susceptibility to maltreatment, such as factors that increase a child‚Äôs risk of abuse or obstacles to delivering effective child protection services ‚Äî Design interventions that are trauma-informed, sensitive, and developmentally targeted for children and their caregivers ‚Äî Disseminate information about the evidence and effectiveness of these interventions to increase the profile for their usage in clinical practice ‚Äî Educate students and future professionals in psychology, medicine, nursing, social work, and creative arts therapies to mitigate the effects of child maltreatment for future generations”