A scale for home visiting nurses to identify risks of physical abuse and neglect among mothers with newborn infants

Risk assessment of parents’ concerns at 18 months in preventive child health care predicted child abuse and neglect

“…The CAPI has a low to moderate correlation with child abuse and neglect (Milner & Gold, 1994). In the scale of Grietens et al (2004), parenting characteristics such as signs of parenting stress, social isolation and impulse control are rated by a home visiting nurse. A community-based sample of mothers scored significantly lower on the scale than mothers with substantiated child abuse or neglect.…”

“…An example of the 'proxy-approach' is the Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI) (Milner, 1990) and a 20-item scale based on the CAPI (Grietens, Geeraert, & Hellinckx, 2004). The CAPI is a self-report scale containing 160 items on parental well-being and stress, problems in parent-child interactions and problems with social relationships.…”

Patterns of Risk and Protective Factors in the Intergenerational Cycle of Maltreatment

“…In terms of practice among health and social services professionals, a greater understanding of the relative contribution that the intergenerational cycle plays in assessing risk of abusive parenting is essential. Indeed, a number of scales are used by community nurses to identify children at risk of maltreatment contain questions that rely on the parents (usually mothers) self report of whether they were abused (e.g., or unloved and neglected (e.g., Grietens et al, 2004) in childhood. Few have evaluated if this pragmatic approach is useful.…”

Predicting disturbed parental awareness in mothers with a newborn infant: test of a theoretical model

“…They reported significant differences in reasoning between parents with a history of protective service involvement for child neglect and control parents. Further, evidence for this relationship was given by Grietens et al, 2001, who found significantly lower levels of parental awareness in maltreating mothers as compared to nonmaltreating mothers.…”