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Direct linkPatterson, George T. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2004
The objective of the current study was to assess the effects of mandatory child abuse training on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward abused children and abusive parents among a sample of police recruits. An experimental pretest-posttest design was used in which 81 participants were randomly assigned to experimental conditions and 101 to…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Child Abuse, Statistical Analysis, Social Work
