Sentences with phrase «measuring child maltreatment»

Models of the mechanisms of this association are reviewed and evaluated in the context of the many complexities of defining and measuring child maltreatment.

Studies of home visiting's effectiveness as an intervention designed to prevent child maltreatment demonstrate some promise, but compared to the number of studies conducted that measure child maltreatment, risk for maltreatment, or protective factors, there are far more findings of no effects than reductions in maltreatment and improvements in child and family well - being.

Dr. Klevens and her colleagues measured child maltreatment using inpatient admissions data for abusive head trauma in children under age two between 1995 and 2013.

We measured child maltreatment investigations, indicated reports, and out - of - home care placements from birth to age five among 2,487 children born to youth in foster care between 2000 and 2008.

Not exact matches

Overall, the research on home visiting to prevent child maltreatment could be improved with use of rigorous methods, appropriate measures, longer follow - up periods, and inclusion of and reporting on important subgroups.

The study drew on two different measures of child abuse from Army databases: substantiated child maltreatment reports and medical diagnoses of child maltreatment.

Specifically, we compared children with complaints for maltreatment to peers who (a) were the same race, gender and birth year, (b) had the same income level as measured by eligibility for subsidized meals, (c) lived in the same neighborhood, and (d) attended the same elementary school.

The measure of child maltreatment incorporates formal investigations relating to potential child neglect as well as abuse (sexual or physical) that occur prior to grade 3.

This is in absolute contrast with Section 1 of Article 19 of the convention that reads: «State Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment, or exploitation» (qtd.

States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent (s), legal guardian (s) or any other person who has the care of the child.

Such protective measures should, as appropriate, include effective procedures for the establishment of social programmes to provide necessary support for the child and for those who have the care of the child, as well as for other forms of prevention and for identification, reporting, referral, investigation, treatment and follow - up of instances of child maltreatment described heretofore, and, as appropriate, for judicial involvement.

«State's parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent (s), legal guardian (s), or any other person who has the care of the child.»

This book by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, commonly called the Greenbook, provides communities a framework to develop interventions and measure progress as they seek to improve their responses to families experiencing spouse abuse and child maltreatment.

shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent (s), legal guardian (s) or any other person who has the care of the child.

Being able to measure positive child health outcomes becomes especially important when assessing the benefits of participation for families considered to be high - risk for the experience of trauma or patterns of maltreatment.

As previously described, 46 the measure of childhood maltreatment includes (1) maternal rejection assessed at age 3 years by observational ratings of mothers» interaction with the study children, (2) harsh discipline assessed at ages 7 and 9 years by parental report of disciplinary behaviors, (3) 2 or more changes in the child's primary caregiver, and (4) physical abuse and (5) sexual abuse reported by study members once they reached adulthood.

Conclusions Although findings are at best mixed with respect to the effectiveness of home - visiting programs in preventing child neglect, evidence is mounting that these programs can positively alter parenting practices and, to a lesser extent, children's cognitive development.121 Given the many measurement problems associated with accurately tracking substantiated cases of abuse and neglect, what is needed is not more evaluations of CPS reports attempting to show reductions in child abuse and neglect, but rather the development of new measures by which researchers can make sensitive and accurate assessments of child maltreatment.

The wave III interview, completed by 15 197 young adults in 2001 — 2002 (77.4 % response rate), included retrospective measures of child maltreatment.

Third, we focused our analyses on childhood socioeconomic disadvantage, maltreatment, and social isolation because previous research suggested a link between these measures and age - related disease.24, 31,33 However, children may be exposed to other significant adverse experiences, and research is needed to uncover them.

Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.

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.

Repeat Maltreatment in Alaska: Assessment and Exploration of Alternative Measures (PDF - 1055 KB) Vadapalli & Passini (2015) Examines recurring child maltreatment reporting trends between 2005 and 2013 to determine the differing rates of substantiated and unsubstantiaMaltreatment in Alaska: Assessment and Exploration of Alternative Measures (PDF - 1055 KB) Vadapalli & Passini (2015) Examines recurring child maltreatment reporting trends between 2005 and 2013 to determine the differing rates of substantiated and unsubstantiamaltreatment reporting trends between 2005 and 2013 to determine the differing rates of substantiated and unsubstantiated reports.

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Overall, the research on home visiting to prevent child maltreatment could be improved with use of rigorous methods, appropriate measures, longer follow - up periods, and inclusion of and reporting on important subgroups.

Strategic Direction for Child Maltreatment Prevention: Preventing Child Maltreatment Through the Promotion of Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships Between Children and Caregivers (PDF - 280 KB) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009) Describes a strategy for child maltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building community readiChild Maltreatment Prevention: Preventing Child Maltreatment Through the Promotion of Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships Between Children and Caregivers (PDF - 280 KB) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009) Describes a strategy for child maltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building communitMaltreatment Prevention: Preventing Child Maltreatment Through the Promotion of Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships Between Children and Caregivers (PDF - 280 KB) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009) Describes a strategy for child maltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building community readiChild Maltreatment Through the Promotion of Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships Between Children and Caregivers (PDF - 280 KB) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009) Describes a strategy for child maltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building communitMaltreatment Through the Promotion of Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships Between Children and Caregivers (PDF - 280 KB) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009) Describes a strategy for child maltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building community readichild maltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building communitmaltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building community readiness.

Challenges to including measures of child maltreatment involve the complexity of obtaining consent from families and access to state child welfare records, the need for both short - and long - term follow - up to assess program impact, and concerns about the reliability and validity of parent or staff reports.

Main Outcome Measures (1) Association of 7 adverse exposures (3 categories of child abuse [physical abuse, sexual abuse, and psychological maltreatment] and 4 categories of household dysfunction [caregiver problem drinking, caregiver depression, caregiver treated violently, and criminal behavior in the household]-RRB- derived from data collected when the child was 4 years old.

Five programs showed favorable effects in some aspect of child maltreatment reduction: (1) Child FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domachild maltreatment reduction: (1) Child FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domaChild FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domachild protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domachild's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domain.65

Protective Factors Survey FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community - Based Child Abuse Prevention (2008) Offers a self - administered survey for use with caregivers receiving child maltreatment prevention services, measuring protective factors in five areas: family functioning / resiliency, social support, concrete support, nurturing and attachment, and knowledge of parenting / child developChild Abuse Prevention (2008) Offers a self - administered survey for use with caregivers receiving child maltreatment prevention services, measuring protective factors in five areas: family functioning / resiliency, social support, concrete support, nurturing and attachment, and knowledge of parenting / child developchild maltreatment prevention services, measuring protective factors in five areas: family functioning / resiliency, social support, concrete support, nurturing and attachment, and knowledge of parenting / child developchild development.

The interaction effect appears to be robust across alternative measures of both domestic violence and child maltreatment.

Five of the evidence - based programs showed improvements in reductions in child maltreatment, measured in different ways, including substantiated reports and parents» self - report of behaviors.

Six programs had studies that assessed reductions in child maltreatment, measured in different ways, including substantiated information from administrative records, encounters with health providers for injuries or poisonings, and self - reported parenting behaviors.

Main Outcomes and Measures The cumulative prevalence of confirmed child maltreatment by race / ethnicity, sex, and year.

In fact, the strategies of alienating parents, which include «spurning, terrorizing, isolating, corrupting or exploiting and denying emotional responsiveness,» are reportedly extreme measures of psychological maltreatment of children.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Mothers of families with history of maltreatment and their children were randomly assigned the Preschooler - Parent Psychotherapy (PPP)[now called Child - Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)-RSB-, psychoeducational home visitation (PHV), or community standard (CS) groups.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The aim of this study was to conduct a evaluation of the effectiveness of Circle of Security - Parenting (COS - P), with mothers in residential substance abuse treatment and (b) to examine what demographic variables, including other risk factors for child maltreatment, may influence the impact of the program with these mothers.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This article introduces the Attachment, Self - Regulation, and Competency (ARC) model [now called Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC)- Client] and describes its application with young children of diverse ethnocultural backgrounds involved in the child protection system due to maltreatment.

Measures included records of the child's history of permanent placement attempts during the 24 months of the study, and severity of maltreatment history.

Measures utilized include the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory, the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale, the Child Maltreatment Precursor Scale, the Home Observation and Measurement of Environment (HOME) Inventory, the Developmental Profile II, and the Adaptive Social Behavior Inventory.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This article reports the evaluation results from Strong Communities for Children, a multiyear comprehensive community - based initiative to prevent child maltreatment and improve children'sChildren, a multiyear comprehensive community - based initiative to prevent child maltreatment and improve children'schildren's safety.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This article introduces the Attachment, Self - Regulation, and Competency (ARC) model [now called Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC)-RSB- and describes its application with young children of diverse ethnocultural backgrounds involved in the child protection system due to maltreatment.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The study examined the effectiveness of the RETHINK Parenting and Anger Management preventive educational workshop program in reducing parent anger and child maltreatment at 3 - month follow - up.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The study evaluated the effectiveness of the Healthy Families Arizona [now called Healthy Families America] home visitation program for families at risk for child maltreatment.

Parents» self - reports provide a powerful measure of child maltreatment; several rigorous studies show reductions in harsh parenting, neglect, physical abuse, and psychological abuse measured from one to seven years and increased use of non-violent discipline.

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Model care resulted in significantly lower rates of child maltreatment in all the outcome measures: fewer child protective services reports, fewer instances of possible medical neglect documented as treatment nonadherence, fewer children with delayed immunizations, and less harsh punishment reported by parents.

We offer three recommendations for future research in this area: 1) measures of the severity of child maltreatment should be used where possible; 2) positive childhood relationships should be assessed as a potentially important protective factor; 3) more research should involve system - involved children and adolescents.