Charting the waves of prevention: two steps forward, one step back

Daro, Deborah; Donnelly, Anne Cohn

doi:10.1016/s0145-2134(02)00344-7

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“…Extensive research on programme evaluations has been conducted both for home-visiting programmes (e.g., Daro & Donnelly, 2002;Family Strengthening Policy Center, 2007;Olds, Kitzman, Hanks, et al, 2007;Sweet & Appelbaum, 2004), and centre-based programmes (e.g., American Psychological Association, 2009; Chaffin & Friedrich, 2004;DePanfilis & Dibowitz, 2008). Thanks to the extensive evidence the scientific community, policy makers and funders may know which programmes work and which do not, taking into account the standards mentioned above.…”

Section: Evidence-based Parenting Programmes In Europe and Best Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting positive parenting in Europe: New challenges for the European Society for Developmental Psychology

López

2010

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

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Section: Evidence-based Parenting Programmes In Europe and Best Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting positive parenting in Europe: New challenges for the European Society for Developmental Psychology

López

2010

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

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“…31 Services may be particularly effective for some subgroups of participants but have little impact with others. [37][38][39][40][41] First-time adolescent mothers appear to be especially amenable to intervention through home visitation. 39,42 On the other hand, maternal depression, common among young mothers and a risk factor for maltreatment, may impede the ability of programs to reduce child abuse and neglect.…”

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Limiting Home Visiting Effects: Maternal Depression as a Moderator of Child Maltreatment

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OBJECTIVE: To test, with a sample of adolescent mothers (16–20 at childbirth) and their first-born infants/toddlers (average age 1 year), whether the impact of a home visiting (HV) child maltreatment prevention program was moderated by maternal depression. METHODS: The study design was a randomized controlled trial of Healthy Families Massachusetts, a statewide child maltreatment prevention program. A total of 707 first-time mothers were randomly assigned to the HV or control group. The HV group received visits from paraprofessional home visitors. Mothers in the control group were referred to other service providers. The outcome variable consisted of state Child Protective Services reports of child abuse and neglect (mother or other person as perpetrator). Maternal depression was assessed by maternal report (Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression questionnaire). RESULTS: A considerable proportion of families had child maltreatment reports (30% of sample) and maternal depression (38% had clinically significant symptoms). Most maltreatment was neglect. Among control group mothers, reports of maltreatment did not vary according to depressive symptoms. For HV mothers, probability of reports varied with levels of depressive symptoms. Nonsymptomatic HV mothers were less likely to have a child who was reported for maltreatment compared with HV mothers who endorsed clinical levels of depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of maternal depressive symptoms in this sample, and the link between depression and child maltreatment prevention program effectiveness, suggest that home visitors be alert to maternal depression. Programs also should be aware of possible surveillance effects related to maternal depression.

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“…In short, this study is an example of an epidemiological study that improves our understanding of the magnitude and extent of CAN in the household (Gilbert et al, 2009) by shifting the focus of data collection from a single child in the household to all children in the family. If early intervention has become the overarching objective for policy and practice, then incorporating sibling CAN into measures of CAN based on CPS records in future studies is a cost-effective way to identify CAN in at-risk families during the prenatal period (Daro & Donnelly, 2002;Kelley, Thornberry, & Smith, 1997) and a convenient yet critical stepping stone toward the primary prevention of CAN in the household.…”

Section: Implications For Policy and Practicementioning

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We Are Family: Specifying the Unique Contribution of Abuse and Neglect of Siblings on the Prevalence, Severity, and Chronicity of Maltreatment in the Household

Spano

2016

J Interpers Violence

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Prior research typically focuses on a single child ("index" victim) when measuring child abuse and neglect (CAN) using Child Protective Services (CPS) records. However, excluding siblings has the potential to underestimate estimates of the prevalence, severity, and chronicity of CAN in the household, which includes all children in the family. CPS maltreatment records were searched in 2005 for 366 "index" victims who were surveyed for 5 consecutive years (from 1998 to 2002) for the Mobile Youth Survey (MYS) as well as other siblings in the household. The estimate of prevalence of CAN in the household increased by 10% when sibling(s) in the household were included in the CPS search. In addition, prevalence of sexual abuse in the household increased by 38% when siblings were included in the broader search of CPS records. More importantly, including sibling victims of CAN uncovered incidents of maltreatment that occurred before the birth of the targeted MYS "index" victim. In short, the inclusion of abuse and neglect of siblings is a straightforward and intuitive way to improve estimates of abuse and neglect in the household. More importantly, the age of onset of CAN of sibling victims provides a wider window of opportunity to identify at-risk families for targeted interventions and may represent a critical stepping stone toward the primary prevention of CAN in the household.

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Charting the waves of prevention: two steps forward, one step back

Cited by 65 publications

References 25 publications

Promoting positive parenting in Europe: New challenges for the European Society for Developmental Psychology

Promoting positive parenting in Europe: New challenges for the European Society for Developmental Psychology

Limiting Home Visiting Effects: Maternal Depression as a Moderator of Child Maltreatment

We Are Family: Specifying the Unique Contribution of Abuse and Neglect of Siblings on the Prevalence, Severity, and Chronicity of Maltreatment in the Household

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