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.

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Patterns of skeletal fractures in child abuse: Systematic review	Kemp, A. M., F. Dunstan, et al.	2008
Intervention type matters in primary prevention of abusive head injury: Event history analysis results	Russell, B.S., Trudeau, J., & Britner, P.A.	2008
From suspicion of physical child abuse to reporting: primary care clinician decision-making	Flaherty, A.G., Sege, R.D., Griffith, J., Price, L.L., Wasserman, R., Slora, E., et al.	2008
Physical violence and psychological aggression towards children: Five-year trends in practices and attitudes from two population surveys	Clément, Marie-Ève Chamberland, Claire	2007
Child physical abuse with and without other forms of maltreatment: Dysfunctionality versus dysnormality	Larrivée, Marie-Claude Tourigny, Marc Bouchard, Camil	2007
Child abuse and chronic pain in a community survey of women	Walsh, Christine A. Jamieson, Ellen MacMillan, Harriet Boyle, Michael	2007
Co-Occurrence of Interparental Violence and Child Physical Abuse and its Effect on the Adolescent's Behavior	Bourassa, Chantal	2007
Are abusive fractures in young children becoming less common? Changes over 24 years	Leventhal, J.M., Larson, I.A., Abdoo, D., Singaracharlu, S. & al.	2007
Cognition, Emotion, and Neurobiological Development: Mediating the Relation Between Maltreatment and Aggression	Lee, Vivien Hoaken, Peter	2007
Establishing a relationship between behavior and cognition: Violence against women and children within the family	Chamberland, Claire Fortin, Andrée Laporte, Lise	2007