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Please assist with a literature review on the article "Universal Reach at Birth: Family Connects by
Kenneth A. Dodge and W. Benjamin Goodman" .

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This posting discusses the literature relating to strategies for prevention of childhood maltreatment.

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To reduce the effect of childhood maltreatment, the literature indicates that all families in a population should be screened simultaneously, family-specific risks should be identified, and every family should be connected with evidence-based resources (Dodge & Goodman, 2019). According to this article, a program called Family Connects requires home visiting by trained nurses, alignment of all community resources to the families at a birth, and gathering of data and monitoring family-specific educational records and psychosocial records. The study says these interventions led to favorable outcomes.

Another study shows that the impact of adverse experiences of children between the ages 0 and 2 on adult health status was serious (Melville, 2017). This study points out that the impact of caregiver mental illness and physical neglect are serious on the health of young adults. Also, the article underscores the need for comprehensive interdisciplinary preventing screening and near the beginning intervention for children exposed to trauma.
One study asserts that child maltreatment has negative development consequences in many aspects of child functioning (Toth, & Manly, 2019). It focuses on reviewing the literature on child maltreatment by focusing on the key role of attachment in giving rise to developmental risks and providing opportunities for prevention and early intervention. According to this ...

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