Domestic violence. Risk factors, diagnostic & psychotherapy

In this article theme of domestic violence & sexual abuse against children is being considered from the cultural-historical, social-economic & psychological paradigms. Foreign authors approaches specialized on the work with children’s abuse & their practical results are presented herein. The risk factors of impact of cruel treatment & different forms of child’s mental development abuse are analyzed. The examples of prevention & psychotherapy work with the abused children are given. The article is to show that problem of child’s abuse prevention in the socio-economic situation in Russia is of current interest. Nowadays cruel treatment & setting children at nought becomes the central problem of social health & main reason of children’s trauma & infant mortality in many countries. According to the quoted authors infant abuse increase correlates with the growth of domestic & personal violence.