Reducing child abuse potential in families identified by social services: Implications for assessment and treatment

Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 226-235

  Harnett, Paul H ^a   Dawe, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Child development; Child maltreatment; Child protection; Parenting; Program evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349120564     PISSN: 14743310     EISSN: 14743329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brief-treatment/mhn010     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Abidin, R. R. (1995). Parenting stress index. Professional manual (3rd ed.). Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
2. Achenbach, T. M. (1991). Manual for the child behavior checklist/4-18 and 1991 profile. Burlington: University of Vermont.
3. Antony, M. M., Bieling, P. J., Cox, B. J., Enns, M. W., & Swinson, R.P. (1998). Psychometric properties of the 42-item and 21-item versions of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales in clinical groups and a community sample. Psychological Assessment, 10, 176-181.
4. Ateah, C. A., & Durrant, J. E. (2005). Maternal use of physical punishment in response to child misbehavior: Implications for child abuse prevention. Child Abuse and Neglect, 29, 169-185.
5. Bauer, S., Lambert, M. J., & Nielsen, S. L. (2004). Clinical significance methods: A comparison of statistical techniques. Journal of Personality Assessment, 82, 60-70.
6. Beck, A. T., & Steer, R. A. (1988). Beck Hopelessness Scale. New York: The Psychological Corporation.
7. Beck, A. T., Steer, R. A., & Garbin, M. G. (1988). Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory: Twenty-five years of evaluation. Clinical Psychology Review, 8, 77-100.
8. Belsky, J. (1988). Child maltreatment and the emergent family system. In K. Browne & C. Davies (Eds.), Early prediction and prevention of child abuse (pp. 267-287). Oxford, England: John Wiley & Sons.
9. Belsky, J., Crnic, K., & Woodworth, S. (1995). Personality and parenting: Fxploring the mediating role of transient mood and daily hassles. Journal of Personality, 63, 905-929.
10. Beutler, L., Machado, P., & Neufeld, S. (1994). Therapist variables. In S. Garfield & A. Bergin (Eds.), Handbook of psychotherapy and behavior change (4th ed.). New York: Wiley.
11. Bieling, P. J., Antony, M. M., & Swinson, R. P. (1998). The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Trait version: Structure and content re-examined. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36, 777-788.
12. Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
13. Brunk, M., Henggeler, S. W., & Whelan, J. P. (1987). Comparison of multi-systemic therapy and parent training in the brief intervention of child abuse and neglect. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55, 171-178.
14. Budd, K. S. (2001). Assessing parenting competence in child protection cases: A clinical practice model. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 4, 1-18.
15. Cicchetti, D., & Carlson, V. (1991). Child maltreatment: Theory and research on the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect. New York: Cambridge University Press.
16. Cicchetti, D., & Toth, S. L. (2005). Child maltreatment. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1, 409-438.
17. Crnic, K. A., & Booth, C. L. (1991). Mothers' and fathers' perceptions of daily hassles of parenting across early childhood. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53, 1042-1050.
18. Crnic, K. A., & Greenberg, M. T. (1990). Minor parenting stresses with young children. Child Development, 61, 1628-1637.
19. Dawe, S., & Harnett, P. H. (2007). Improving family functioning in methadone maintained families: Results from a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 32, 381-390.
20. Dawe, S., Harnett, P. H., Rendalls, V., & Staiger, P. (2003). Improving family functioning and child outcome in methadone maintained families: The Parents Under Pressure Program. Drug and Alcohol Review, 22, 299-307.
21. Forehand, R., & McMahon, R. J. (1981). Helping the noncompliant child: A clinician's guide to parent training. New York: Guilford Press.
22. Gershoff, E. (2002). Corporal punishment by parents and associated child behaviors and experiences: A meta-analytic and theoretical review. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 539-579.
23. Goodman, R. (2001). Psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 40, 1337-1345.
24. Harnett, P. H. (2007). A procedure for assessing parents' capacity for change in child protection cases. Children and Youth Services Review, 29, 1179-1188.
25. Hawes, D. J., & Dadds, M. R. (2004). Australian data and psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 644-651.
26. Hayes, S. C., Follette, V. M., & Linehan, M. M. (2004). Mindfulness and acceptance: Expanding the cognitive-behavioral tradition. New York: Guilford Press.
27. Jacobson, N. S., & Traux, P. (1991). Clinical significance: A statistical approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 59, 12-19.
28. Kazdin, A. E., & Nock, M. K. (2003). Delineating mechanisms of change in child and adolescent therapy: Methodological issues and research recommendations. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 44, 1116-1129.
29. Lorber, M. F., & O'Leary, S. G. (2005). Mediated paths to overreactive discipline: Mothers' experienced emotion, appraisals, and physiological responses. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 972-981.
30. Lovibond, S. H., & Lovibond, P. F. (1995). Manual for the depression anxiety and stress scales (2nd ed.). Sydney, Australia: Psychology Foundation of Australia.
31. Luthar, S. S., & Suchman, N. E. (2000). Relational psychotherapy mothers' group: A developmentally informed intervention for at-risk mothers. Development and Psychopathology, 12, 235-253.
32. Milner, J. S. (1986). The child abuse potential inventory (2nd ed.). webster NC: Psytec.
33. Milner, J. S. (1994). Assessing physical child abuse risk: The Child Abuse Potential Inventory. Clinical Psychology Review, 14, 547-583.
34. Patterson, G. R. (1982). Coercive family processes. Eugene, OR: Castalia.
35. Patterson, G. R. (Fd.). (1983). Stress: A change agent for family process. In N. Garmezy & M. Rutter (Eds.), Stress, coping, and development in children (pp. 235-264). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Reprinted in 1988)
36. Power, M. J., Champion, L. A., & Aris, S. J. (1988). The development of a measure of social support: The Significant Others (SOS) Scale. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 27, 349-358.
37. Sidebotham, P. (2001). An ecological approach to child abuse: A creative use of scientific models in research and practice. Child Abuse Review, 10, 97-112.
38. Suchman, N. E., & Luthar, S. S. (2001). The mediating role of parenting stress in methadone-maintained mothers' parenting. Parenting: Science and Practice, 1, 285-315.
39. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Children Youth and Families. (2005). Child maltreatment 2003. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
40. Urquiza, A. J., & McNeil, C. B. (1996). Parent-child interaction therapy: An intensive dyadic intervention for physically abusive families. Child Maltreatment, 1, 134-144.
41. Webster-Stratton, C., & Reid, M. J. (2003). The incredible years parents, teachers and children training series: A multifaceted treatment approach for young children with conduct problems. In A. E. Y. U. S. o. M. Kazdin & C. Child Study (Eds.), Evidence-based psychotherapies for children and adolescents (pp. 224-240). New York: Guilford Press.
42. Woolgar, M., & Scott, S. (2005). Evidence-based management of conduct disorders. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 18, 392-396.