During a pandemic, particularly a pandemic resulting in a quarantine, child abuse is likely to increase because of added stressors to a family, the isolation of children with their offenders, reduced interaction with mandated reporters, and the elimination or reduction of critical services. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an illustration, the authors propose numerous recommendations to assist multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) responding to child abuse during a pandemic.

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Millions of adolescents are currently living with the effects of abuse and neglect. This leaves them vulnerable to significant health, emotional, and behavioral impacts. Systems have arisen around this need, but they have often pathologized or blamed youth, retraumatized victims, and failed to consider the impact of This chapter was initially published with an incorrect copyright holder name. It has been corrected to © Springer Nature Switzerland AG.