On the other hand, it can be assumed that official reports also lead to an underrepresentation of child abuse because researchers found that many occurrences of
child maltreatment do not appear in official records (e.g., Fergusson et al. 2000; Finkelhor 2008; MacMillan et al. 2003).
Not exact matches
The definition of
child sexual abuse
does not include abuse of an adult by an adult (even if the victim is developmentally delayed), or other types of
child maltreatment.
Bullinger and Raissian's complete findings were published in the peer - reviewed article «Money matters:
Does the minimum wage affect
child maltreatment rates?»
The third National Incidence Study (NIS - 3), which examined the incidence of
child maltreatment in a nationally representative sample of 42 counties,
did not find racial differences overall.
A recent study of the NHVP found that in the 21 % of the sample that reported frequent incidents of domestic violence, the programme
did not reduce
child maltreatment.1 The programme has therefore been modified so that the visiting nurses address domestic violence using proven techniques for reducing risk such as safety planning and conflict resolution skills.
First, our results indicate that groups of
children exposed to different adverse experiences
do not necessarily overlap; for example, most of the
children experiencing
maltreatment or social isolation
did not experience socioeconomic disadvantage.
Caspi et al14 found that
children exposed to different severities of
maltreatment did not differ in their MAOA activity, suggesting that in this case, genotype, and therefore, the resulting phenotype,
did not influence a
child's risk of
maltreatment.
Overall, the authors concluded that the program
did little to prevent
child abuse.58 They also noted that the home visitors rarely expressed concerns about
child maltreatment, even among families for whom other measures suggested significant problems.
However, for both
child abuse and parent stress, the average effect sizes were not different from zero, suggesting a lack of evidence for effects in these areas.108 Earlier meta - analytic reviews have also noted the lack of sizable effects in preventing
child maltreatment — again citing the different intensity of surveillance of families in the treatment versus control groups as an explanation (though the authors
did report that home visiting was associated with an approximately 25 percent reduction in the rate of childhood injuries).109 Another review focusing on the quality of the home environment also found evidence for a significant overall effect of home - visiting programs.110 More recently, Harriet MacMillan and colleagues published a review of interventions to prevent
child maltreatment, and identified the Nurse - Family Partnership and Early Start programs as the most effective with regard to preventing
maltreatment and childhood injuries.
So how can we
do better for the
children of these families when official reports of
child maltreatment in most Western countries continue to rise each year?
However, this intervention
did not significantly reduce
child maltreatment among mothers reporting more than 28 incidents of domestic violence (21 % of sample).
Final Report: A Randomized Trial of Healthy Families New York (HFNY):
Does Home Visiting Prevent
Child Maltreatment?
2) Obtain
Child Abuse & Maltreatment History Reports: You will be asked to provide information (names, dates of birth, addresses) for you and any adult household members to the home study provider or court so the provider or court may obtain child abuse and maltreatment history reports; if any adult person in the household lived outside of the United States, that individual will be required to obtain child abuse and maltreatment history reports from that country (ies) for the home study provider (if the country has a child abuse registry)(if the country does not have a registry, the applicant must provide proof that the country does not have a child abuse registry to the home study provi
Child Abuse &
Maltreatment History Reports: You will be asked to provide information (names, dates of birth, addresses) for you and any adult household members to the home study provider or court so the provider or court may obtain child abuse and maltreatment history reports; if any adult person in the household lived outside of the United States, that individual will be required to obtain child abuse and maltreatment history reports from that country (ies) for the home study provider (if the country has a child abuse registry)(if the country does not have a registry, the applicant must provide proof that the country does not have a child abuse registry to the home stud
Maltreatment History Reports: You will be asked to provide information (names, dates of birth, addresses) for you and any adult household members to the home study provider or court so the provider or court may obtain
child abuse and maltreatment history reports; if any adult person in the household lived outside of the United States, that individual will be required to obtain child abuse and maltreatment history reports from that country (ies) for the home study provider (if the country has a child abuse registry)(if the country does not have a registry, the applicant must provide proof that the country does not have a child abuse registry to the home study provi
child abuse and
maltreatment history reports; if any adult person in the household lived outside of the United States, that individual will be required to obtain child abuse and maltreatment history reports from that country (ies) for the home study provider (if the country has a child abuse registry)(if the country does not have a registry, the applicant must provide proof that the country does not have a child abuse registry to the home stud
maltreatment history reports; if any adult person in the household lived outside of the United States, that individual will be required to obtain
child abuse and maltreatment history reports from that country (ies) for the home study provider (if the country has a child abuse registry)(if the country does not have a registry, the applicant must provide proof that the country does not have a child abuse registry to the home study provi
child abuse and
maltreatment history reports from that country (ies) for the home study provider (if the country has a child abuse registry)(if the country does not have a registry, the applicant must provide proof that the country does not have a child abuse registry to the home stud
maltreatment history reports from that country (ies) for the home study provider (if the country has a
child abuse registry)(if the country does not have a registry, the applicant must provide proof that the country does not have a child abuse registry to the home study provi
child abuse registry)(if the country
does not have a registry, the applicant must provide proof that the country
does not have a
child abuse registry to the home study provi
child abuse registry to the home study provider).
I
do know that any
child, even a toddler, who has experienced
maltreatment and multiple placements already is quite likely to have insecure attachment AND a great deal of readily accessible primal rage.
Introduction: Those Who
Do Not Look Ahead, Stay Behind Fontes
Child Maltreatment, 6 (2), 2001 View Abstract Promotes greater cultural competency in child welfare
Child Maltreatment, 6 (2), 2001 View Abstract Promotes greater cultural competency in
child welfare
child welfare work.
For example, in the NSCAW study, foster
children with experiences of severe
maltreatment exhibited more compromised outcomes.32 Other scholars suggest that foster care may even be a protective factor against the negative consequences of
maltreatment.33 Similarly, it has been suggested that foster care results in more positive outcomes for
children than
does reunification with biological families.34 Further, some studies suggest that the psychosocial vulnerability of the
child and family is more predictive of outcome than any other factor.35 Despite these caveats, the evidence suggests that foster care placement and the foster care experience more generally are associated with poorer developmental outcomes for
children.
Follow the #CO4kids professionals blog to get a more indepth understanding of what these 15 communities decide to
do to prevent
child maltreatment later this year.
A Randomized Trial of Healthy Families New York (HFNY):
Does Home Visiting Prevent
Child Maltreatment?
The Role of First Responders in
Child Maltreatment Cases: Disaster and Nondisaster Situations Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Bureau Cage & Salus This manual, written for first - response professionals, such as emergency medical technicians, child protective services caseworkers, and law enforcement officers, discusses the various types and signs of child maltreatment they may encounter in their work, what they and their agencies can do to respond to suspected child maltreatment in emergencies and disasters, and how to prepare for such situat
Child Maltreatment Cases: Disaster and Nondisaster Situations Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Bureau Cage & Salus This manual, written for first - response professionals, such as emergency medical technicians, child protective services caseworkers, and law enforcement officers, discusses the various types and signs of child maltreatment they may encounter in their work, what they and their agencies can do to respond to suspected child maltreatment in emergencies and disasters, and how to prepare for such
Maltreatment Cases: Disaster and Nondisaster Situations Office on
Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Bureau Cage & Salus This manual, written for first - response professionals, such as emergency medical technicians, child protective services caseworkers, and law enforcement officers, discusses the various types and signs of child maltreatment they may encounter in their work, what they and their agencies can do to respond to suspected child maltreatment in emergencies and disasters, and how to prepare for such situat
Child Abuse and Neglect,
Children's Bureau Cage & Salus This manual, written for first - response professionals, such as emergency medical technicians,
child protective services caseworkers, and law enforcement officers, discusses the various types and signs of child maltreatment they may encounter in their work, what they and their agencies can do to respond to suspected child maltreatment in emergencies and disasters, and how to prepare for such situat
child protective services caseworkers, and law enforcement officers, discusses the various types and signs of
child maltreatment they may encounter in their work, what they and their agencies can do to respond to suspected child maltreatment in emergencies and disasters, and how to prepare for such situat
child maltreatment they may encounter in their work, what they and their agencies can do to respond to suspected child maltreatment in emergencies and disasters, and how to prepare for such
maltreatment they may encounter in their work, what they and their agencies can
do to respond to suspected
child maltreatment in emergencies and disasters, and how to prepare for such situat
child maltreatment in emergencies and disasters, and how to prepare for such
maltreatment in emergencies and disasters, and how to prepare for such situations.
Dependent youth in juvenile justice:
Do Positive Peer Culture programs work for victims of
child maltreatment?.
Experiences of abuse, neglect, trauma, loss, or major separations make a parent more vulnerable to
maltreatment, although they
do not, in themselves, determine whether a mother will abuse or neglect her
children (Bowlby, 1988).
Preventing
child maltreatment is not simply a matter of parents «
doing a better job»; it is about creating a context in which «
doing a better job» is easier.
Much of this work is
done with parents whose
children have been removed from their homes by
child protective services workers because of
maltreatment.
When
maltreatment does occur, our
child welfare system must work in a way that minimizes trauma to
children and families through swift and thoughtful action.
If the
maltreatment is chronic, then the
child comes to believe this is «normal» and
does not consciously see themselves as traumatized.
Because the two groups are being created completely at random, any differences that emerge between the groups over time (for example, differences in prenatal, maternal, and newborn health;
child development; parenting; and
child maltreatment) will be attributable to the fact that one group had access to the home visiting program services and the other
did not.
To
do this, they completed detailed needs assessments, including determining the level of risks to family and
child well - being (such as poverty,
child maltreatment rates, and unemployment) in their communities as well as the existence of home visiting and other services to address those risks.
Target Population: Families with an accepted
child maltreatment report that
does not allege sexual abuse or substantial
child maltreatment (as defined by MN statute 626.556)
Most
children who come to the attention of
child welfare social workers
do so because of any of the following situations, which are often collectively termed
child maltreatment:
A Randomized Trial of Healthy Families New York:
Does Home Visiting Prevent
Child Maltreatment?
Egeland and Sroufe1 pointed out the dramatically negative impact of neglecting or abusive maternal behavior for attachment and personality development, for which they accumulated unique prospective evidence in later phases of the Minnesota study.2 What
do we know about the association between
child maltreatment and attachment, what are the mechanisms linking
maltreatment with attachment insecurity and disorganization, and what type of attachment - based interventions might be most effective?
«I Have no Idea How That Works or What You Would
do About it»: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert and Public Understandings of
Child Maltreatment in the UK (2013).
Three issues are central: first,
does child maltreatment lead to more insecure - organized (avoidant and resistant) attachments?
Failure to report
child maltreatment when required to
do so would be a failure to follow state law.
Euser et al. (2015)
did find a significantly higher effect for interventions aimed at reducing
child maltreatment in maltreating families than for interventions aimed at preventing
child maltreatment in at - risk families / the general population.
Crisis interventions (d =.335)
did not have a significant effect on reducing
child maltreatment, probably due to lack of power.
In
doing so, important insight can be gained into what components contribute to intervention effectiveness and, consequently, how
child maltreatment interventions can best be designed to reach optimal effectiveness.
Before - school interventions (d =.148), general prevention interventions (d =.024), and crisis interventions (d =.407)
did not have a significant effect on preventing
child maltreatment (the latter probably due to lack of power).