Staff retention is an ongoing challenge in mental health and community-based service organizations. Little is known about the impact of evidence-based practice implementation on the mental health and social service workforce. The present study examined the effect of evidence-based practice implementation and ongoing fidelity monitoring on staff…

Objective: This study examines the relationship between childhood abuse and neglect and sexual risk behavior in middle adulthood and whether psychosocial factors (risky romantic relationships, affective symptoms, drug and alcohol use, and delinquent and criminal behavior) mediate this relationship. Method: Children with documented cases of…

Three groups of children (rejected, neglected, and accepted) were identified for boys and girls separately and were compared on peer behavioral attributions, teacher ratings, analogue assertiveness task, and self-evaluation. Rejected children were clearly distinguished from their same-sex neglected and accepted classmates and were described by…

Compared the expectations and problem-solving skills of maltreating mothers (N=20) and matched comparisons (N=10) who completed the Child Development Questionnaire and the Parent Opinion Questionnaire. Results indicated both abusive and neglectful mothers showed significantly greater unrealistic expectations and poorer problem-solving skills than…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a 2-component intervention for biological and foster parent (pairs) to improve parenting practices, co-parenting, and child externalizing problems. Participants were biological and foster parents (N = 128) of primarily neglected children (ages 3 to 10 years) placed in regular foster…

Mothers (N=36) with a history of child abuse or neglect or with no known history of child maltreatment participated in an experiment designed to assess reactions to a number of aversive stimuli. Results indicated that abusing mothers consistently ascribed more malevolent intentionality to their child than did other mothers. (BH)

Studies adult perceptions of benefit from child sexual abuse in 154 low-income women who were sexually abused as children. Almost half reported some perceived benefit. Benefits fell into four main categories: protecting children from abuse, self-protection, increased knowledge of child sexual abuse, and having a stronger personality. Degree of…

Examined the circumstances surrounding child maltreatment in 328 families. Results showed that physical abuse tended to be associated with child behaviors; emotional cruelty was associated with adult conflict that enlarged to involve the child; and neglect was characterized by failure of parents to assume parental responsibilities. (JAC)

Evaluated the relative efficacy of parent training and multisystemic therapy for treatment of child abuse and child neglect, focusing on individual functioning, family relations, and stress/social support. Families receiving either treatment showed decreased parental psychiatric symptomology, reduced overall stress, and a reduction in the severity…

Compared mothers who had a history of child abuse, child neglect, or no maltreatment and their preschool children on impulsiveness in a multimodal assessment procedure. Results indicated that comparison mothers performed better than did abusing mothers on two measures of motor inhibition. Neglectful mothers rated their children as having more…

Examined individual characteristics, family relations, and stress/social support of 50 maltreated adolescents and their mothers. Adolescent neglect was associated with extrafamilial difficulties and social isolation; physical abuse was linked more with rigidity in family relations, poorer maternal understanding of child development, and adolescent…

Provides example of use of exploratory growth modeling to examine changes over time in functioning of 172 families who underwent treatment in Project Good Start prevention program. Addresses within-family and between-family research questions. Results highlight heterogeneity across families in direction and rate of family function change and its…

Examined sexual abuse, physical abuse, and child neglect reports in New York state in 1985 to identify case factors that predict the substantiation of reports following an investigation by child protective services. Reports from professionals were substantiated at a significantly higher rate than reports from nonprofessionals because of…

Evaluated intervention programs for parents and children at risk of child maltreatment. Thirty mother-child dyads were assigned to an information group offered by the child protection agency or behavioral parent training in addition to this. Parenting risk and child behavior problems improved for mothers receiving parent training. Child-rearing…