Evidence-based treatments in child abuse and neglect

Chaffin, Mark; Friedrich, Bill

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2004.08.008

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“…Although parent management training interventions are among the most thoroughly evaluated interventions in the clinical research literature (Nock, 2003), these and other evidence-based interventions have not been well integrated into child welfare services (Chaffin & Friedrich, 2004). To our knowledge, this is only the second study 7 to focus on using a research-based parenting training approach with foster parents and is the largest attempt to date.…”

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Prevention of Behavior Problems for Children in Foster Care: Outcomes and Mediation Effects

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Parent training for foster parents is mandated by federal law and supported by state statues in nearly all states; however, little is known about the efficacy of that training, and recent reviews underscore that the most widely used curricula in the child welfare system (CWS) have virtually no empirical support (Farmer et al., 2007;Grimm, 2003). On the other hand, numerous theoretically-based, developmentally-sensitive parent training interventions have been found to be effective in experimental clinical and prevention intervention trials (e.g., Kazdin & Wassell, 2000;McMahon & Forehand, 2003;Patterson & Forgatch, 1987;Webster-Stratton et al., 2001). One of these, Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC; Chamberlain 2003), has been used with foster parents of youth referred from juvenile justice. The effectiveness of an intervention based on MTFC was tested in a universal randomized trial with 700 foster and kinship parents in the San Diego County CWS. The goal of the intervention was to reduce child problem behaviors through strengthening foster parents' skills. The trial was designed to examine effects on both child behavior and parenting practices, allowing for specific assessment of the extent to which improvements in child behavior were mediated by the parenting practices targeted in the intervention. Child behavior problems were reduced significantly more in the intervention condition than in the control condition, and specific parenting practices were found to mediate these reductions, especially for high-risk children (i.e., those with more than 6 behavior problems per day at baseline). Keywords parent management training; foster parents; effectiveness trialChild welfare services are estimated to cost $20 billion per year (Allphin et al., 2001), yet very little experimental research has been used to guide the interventions used within that system. In a systematic review of research on children in foster care, Wulczyn et al. (2005) found that most existing studies were descriptive in nature. They and other researchers (e.g., Courtney, 2000) have called for experimental research to improve practices in the child welfare system (CWS), particularly for children in out-of-home care. In this study, we tested Correspondence should be directed to Patricia Chamberlain, Oregon Social Learning Center, 10 Shelton McMurphey Boulevard, Eugene, (541) 485-2711; fax, (541) NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript the effectiveness of an intervention designed to strengthen foster parents' parenting skills through the implementation of a theoretically-based intervention that had been shown in previous randomized studies to have positive short-and long-term effects on child outcomes Chamberlain & Reid, 1991;Leve et al., 2005). The intervention was expected to lead to improvements in foster parent child management skills, which were expected to result in fewer child behavior problems. Previous work has shown that behavior problems (particularly externalizing behaviors) are o...

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“…The reasons for poor penetration of EBPs within community-based services as usual are many and various, occur at multiple levels, and have been extensively discussed elsewhere (see Chaffin & Friedrich, 2004, for a particularly good discussion of the barriers in specific relation to child welfare services). In the particular English example just cited, in the context of increasingly draconian budgetary restrictions in local authorities, the high up-front costs of providing an EBP compared with the costs of other homegrown but less thoroughly researched interventions is likely to be an especially significant consideration, all other arguments aside.…”

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“…However, it is also clear that a focus on promoting the spread of individual evidence-based programs alone has limitations. In many jurisdictions it is the opinion of expert commentators that many of our most important "services as usual" for children and families delivered within the community remain substantially untouched by evidence-based approaches (Chaffin & Friedrich, 2004;House of Commons Education Committee, 2013). Just one example drawn from the United Kingdom will clearly illustrate this.…”

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From Programs to Systems: Deploying Implementation Science and Practice for Sustained Real World Effectiveness in Services for Children and Families

Ghate

2015

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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“…Potential barriers across these essential activities include both attitudes of service providers and organizational factors, such as organizational culture, leadership, and resource availability (Mitchell, 2011). Recommendations for advancing evidence-based practices in child welfare contexts include encouraging adoption of a "learning organization" orientation among agencies, increasing emphasis on EBP in graduate training, and countering misperceptions about EBP among stakeholders (Chaffin & Friedrich, 2004).…”

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“…Child welfare agencies are increasingly challenged to evaluate the evidence-base of practices, programs and policies (Barth, 2008;Chaffin & Friedrich, 2004;Cunningham & Duffee, 2009;Landsverk, Brown, Rolls Reutz, Palinkas, & Horwitz, 2011;Landsverk, Garland, Reutz, & Davis, 2011;Littell & Shlonsky, 2010;Luongo, 2007;Osterling & Austin, 2008). Evidence based practice University-Community Partnered Research 3 (EBP), broadly defined, involves the process of both selecting and implementing interventions with empirical support (Barth, 2008;Chaffin & Friedrich, 2004).…”

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Child Welfare Partnership for Research and Training: A Title IV-E University/Community Collaborative Research Model

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et al. 2013

Journal of Public Child Welfare

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University-community partnerships are increasingly recognized as valuable in educating students for professional practice and bridging the gap between research and practice. This manuscript describes the evolution and design of a university-community partnership between a School of Social Work in one urban university and local child welfare agencies: the Child Welfare Partnership for Research and Training (CW-PART). This local partnership illustrates types of opportunities and outcomes that emerge when state and local entities leverage greater results from federal funding through partnerships with local universities. The manuscript describes 1), the community-engaged framework used to inform the overall approach and partner roles; 2) evolution of the model from early partnered research successes; 3) core elements of the CW PART university-community partnered research model, and 4) preliminary lessons learned from the pilot phase of model. Acknowledgements: The Child Welfare Partnership for Research and Training is funded by the California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC).

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Evidence-based treatments in child abuse and neglect

Cited by 254 publications

References 30 publications

Prevention of Behavior Problems for Children in Foster Care: Outcomes and Mediation Effects

Prevention of Behavior Problems for Children in Foster Care: Outcomes and Mediation Effects

From Programs to Systems: Deploying Implementation Science and Practice for Sustained Real World Effectiveness in Services for Children and Families

Child Welfare Partnership for Research and Training: A Title IV-E University/Community Collaborative Research Model

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