A dominant ecological and multi-level stance links family dynamics to neighborhood and broader social structures, integrating stress, supports, and reporting data to illuminate how context shapes risk and protection. Prevention and intervention development framed child maltreatment as a public health concern, advancing ecobehavioral approaches, program evaluation, and broad-based training for families, professionals, and communities. Emphasis on sexual abuse reporting and professional roles highlighted clinical intervention, policy-relevant services, and offender management, while etiological and definitional work underscored measurement validity and developmental trajectories across caregiving contexts. "Influential Works": Pioneering cross-period research established the community context as a determinant of parent-child relations and maltreatment risk; an ecological integration model urged multi-level prevention and research across micro-, meso-, and macro-systems. The concept of the child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome provided clinical and legal interpretive tools, shaping testimony and policy debates. Developmental perspectives on etiology and intergenerational transmission underscored developmental dynamics and longitudinal risk, informing prevention planning and intervention design. Studies of cognitive patterns in maltreating caregivers highlighted targets for prevention and caregiver support.