physical abuse

Each province and territory has unique legislation defining and describing responses to physical abuse. Physical abuse includes any non-accidental action that causes, or could cause physical harm to a child such as hitting, shaking, or the unreasonable use of force to restrain a child.

Title	Authors	Year
What is Child Physical Abuse?	Trocmé, N., Sullivan, S. & Lefebvre, R.	2024
Temporary placements: A crisis management strategy for physically abused children?	Hébert, S.T., Hélie, S., & Esposito, T.	2018
Temporary placements: A crisis-management strategy for physically abused children?	Hébert, Sophie T. Hélie, Sonia Esposito, Tonino	2018
What doesn’t kill them doesn’t make them stronger: Questioning our current notions of resilience	Kassis, W., Artz, S., Maurovic, I., & Simões, C.	2018
When Is a Child’s Forensic Statement Deemed Credible? A Comparison of Physical and Sexual Abuse Cases	Hershkowitz, I., Melkman, E. P., & Zur, R.	2018
15-Year-Old Jimmy: An Investigative Review	Office of the Child and Youth Advocate Alberta	2017
Child welfare responses linked to subtypes of exposure to intimate partner violence: Evidence from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect	Gonzalez, Andrea MacMillan, Harriet Tanaka, Masako Jack, Susan M. Tonmyr, Lil	2017
Defining ‘reasonable force’: Does it advance child protection?	Durrant, Joan E. Fallon, Barbara Lefebvre, Rachael Allan, Kate	2017
Drug use, the drug environment, and child physical abuse and neglect	Freisthler, B., Wolf, J. P., Wiegmann, W., & Kepple, N. J.	2017
Pathways linking childhood maltreatment and adolescent sexual risk behaviors: The role of attachment security	Thibodeau, Marie-Eve Lavoie, Francine Hébert, Martine Blais, Martin	2017