What does available evidence tell us about the causes of child abuse (divide into societal factors, personal factors, and structural factors?

Child abuse and neglect in West Africa

3800 Essay research project

Topic: Interventions to prevent Child abuse and Neglect in west Africa ( you focus on Nigeria and Kenya )

A literature review on the prevention of child abuse and neglect (In-country chosen).

Introduction of child abuse and neglect ( 800 words)

Introduce the focus and define key terms, explain the context, explain the extent of the problem within the country choose

Briefly summarise the state of the literature and any relevant policy developments/critiques, then set out a clear project aim/question that you are going to address, explaining how you will address this (e.g. with what data/methods).

Methods: You need a methods section, ~500 words, in which you cover the following:

Explain how you are addressing your aim (e.g. literature review)

Explain the details (e.g. if literature review, explain how you searched for and identified literature (e.g. search string, databases, etc), then how you critically appraised it and synthesized it—here you need to be clear and focus on the literature on child abuse and neglect in a specific context (the country chosen), e.g. evidence of successful preventative interventions)

Results (~2000 words)

Explain how this section is structured (e.g. by theme,)

Present synthesis of the results, structured into sub-sections to reflect your themes (really crucial that each section synthesizes the relevant literature, rather than describing each study in turn, and that it uses references and critically appraises the literature being discussed so think about the methods, data sources, limitations, etc).

Concluding discussion (~500 words)

Sum up how the literature addresses your aim and make clear (regarding the Results section) what your main argument is

Reflect on the limitations of the literature (e.g. gaps in knowledge, topics that are under-explored, or perhaps not explored at all, methodological limitations of available data, etc)

Reflect on any implications for research, policy, and practice ( focus on the country, the implications should be specific to that context (then you need to think a bit about whether the implications might vary by the 2 countries ( Nigeria, and Kenya)

Choose one of these to develop your 2000 words and follow the instruction in No 3 ( choose the one you know you can write and do better out of the options)

What does available evidence tell us about the causes of child abuse (divide into societal factors, personal factors, and structural factors? (see what the literature comes up with)

What does available evidence tell us about what can be done to prevent child abuse and neglect? And What does available evidence tell us about the mental health consequences of child abuse and neglect?

What does available evidence tell us about the risk and protective factors around child abuse and neglect by: