Examines child maltreatment in the context of individual, family, cultural, social, and economic factors and offers perspectives to help professionals understand families’ vulnerabilities and strengths. In this special issue of the journal Child Maltreatment, practitioners and researchers from the arenas of mental health, child protection, law and law enforcement, medicine, nursing, and allied disciplines learn about: (1) intervention and prevention strategies among American Indian and Alaskan Native communities; (2) roots causes of and prevention of child sexual abuse among African Americans and Latinos; (3) ethnicity, income, and parenting contexts of physical punishment; (4) the relationship between family structure and child maltreatment in Latino and Anglo families; (5) the influence of culture on symptom formation, treatment-seeking behaviors, treatment preference, and response following child maltreatment; (6) a model for distinguishing different culturally based discipline practices from child maltreatment; (7) the emerging problem of physical child abuse in South Korea; and (8) ethnic differences in risk behaviors and related psychosocial variables among maltreated adolescents in foster care. Practitioners who expand their knowledge base of cultural issues in child maltreatment will be able to work more effectively with members of minority groups on issues of child abuse. CONTENTS Introduction: Those Who Do Not Look Ahead, Stay Behind Child Maltreatment in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: Integrating Culture, History, and Public Health for Intervention and Prevention Views of Child Sexual Abuse in Two Cultural Communities: An Exploratory Study Among African Americans and Latinos Ethnicity, Income, and Parenting Contexts of Physical Punishment in a National Sample of Families With Young Children The Relationship Between Familism and Child Maltreatment in Latino and Anglo Families Ethnicity in Child Maltreatment Research: A Content Analysis The Importance of Culture in Treating Abused and Neglected Children: An Empirical Review A Reporting and Response Model for Culture and Child Maltreatment The Emerging Problem of Physical Child Abuse in South Korea Ethnic Differences in Risk Behaviors and Related Psychosocial Variables Among a Cohort of Maltreated Adolescents in Foster Care
