Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect: Do Parents Show Improvement in Parental Mental Health Problems and Parental Stress?

Hefti, Stephanie; Pérez, Tania; Fürstenau, Ute; Rhiner, Bruno; Swenson, Cynthia Cupit; Schmid, Marc

doi:10.1111/jmft.12367

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“…Alongside treatment for parents with mental health problems and substance abuse, it is important to provide services to meet the needs of children and adolescents. There are some successful programs and projects (e.g., [9,36,40]) which can serve as models for intervention in families dealing with parental mental health problems or substance abuse. In this context, it is appropriate to adopt programs that provide integrated interventions that meet the needs of a family (as a system) rather than interventions targeted at individuals alone [41].…”

Section: Treatment Of Parental Mental Disorders and Prevention Of Child Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, some types of psychiatric disorder (e.g., personality or psychotic disorders) are more challenging than others, specifically disorders with more severe symptomatology (e.g., suicide risk, psychotic behaviour) [7]. Therefore, for adult parents who suffer from mental health problems, an effective intervention is extremely important to ease their psychological suffering, as well as to contribute to, among other goals, a reduction in the risk of child/juvenile victimization [9][10][11].…”

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Parental Mental Health Problems and the Risk of Child Maltreatment: The Potential Role of Psychotherapy

2021

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Parental mental health is a risk factor for numerous issues affecting a child’s physical and psychological development, especially the perpetration of child maltreatment. This paper aims to contribute a theoretical review of the risks faced by some children living in families with parental mental health problems and argues that psychotherapy has an essential role in resolving emotional and interpersonal difficulties, based on the example of Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT). This model has revealed benefits in interventions with several types of patients and is consequently a promising model for preventing the risk of aggressive behaviors. The programs addressing both parents and children have been proven to contribute to more informed and effective interventions.

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Section: Treatment Of Parental Mental Disorders and Prevention Of Child Abusementioning

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Parental Mental Health Problems and the Risk of Child Maltreatment: The Potential Role of Psychotherapy

2021

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“…Für die interne Konsistenz der Gesamtskala wurde bei den psychisch kranken Eltern ein Cronbachs α=0,83 ermittelt, bei den Eltern aus der nicht-klinischen Gruppe war α=0,79 19 . Auch in weiteren Untersuchungen wurde die deutsche Version der PSS eingesetzt, wobei sie sich wiederholt als intern konsistent (Cronbachs α=0,86) erwies 20 21 , ohne dass die Faktorenstruktur für diese ausgewählten Stichproben überprüft worden wäre.…”

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Stress durch Elternschaft: Psychometrische Evaluation der deutschen Version der Parental Stress Scale in der Allgemeinbevölkerung

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Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol

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ZusammenfassungStress aufgrund von Elternschaft wirkt sich nicht nur negativ auf die Betroffenen selbst, sondern v. a. auch nachteilig auf die psychische und körperliche Gesundheit ihrer Kinder aus, was reziprok die Belastung im Sinne eines Teufelskreises erhöht. Elterlicher Stress scheint ein negativer Faktor für die psychische Gesundheit auch im Rahmen der Covid-19 Pandemie zu sein. Daher kommt einer reliablen und validen Erfassung der elterlichen Stressbelastung sowohl wissenschaftlich als auch klinisch-praktisch eine hohe Bedeutung zu. Die 18 Items umfassende Parental Stress Scale (PSS) ist aufgrund ihrer Anwendungsökonomie und soliden psychometrischen Kennwerte international gut etabliert. In dieser Studie wurde die deutsche Version der PSS erstmals an Eltern (n=386) von Kindern unter 16 Jahren aus einer repräsentativen Allgemeinbevölkerungsstichprobe (n=2519) mit einem Fokus auf der Faktorenstruktur teststatistisch evaluiert. Mittels konfirmatorischer Faktorenanalyse konnten die in der internationalen Literatur berichteten Modelle nicht bestätigt werden. Eine explorative Faktorenanalyse legte unter Ausschluss eines Items eine zweifaktorielle Lösung mit den Dimensionen ‚Mangel an Zufriedenheit‘ sowie ‚Sorgen und Belastungen‘ nahe. Beide Subskalen zeigten eine gute interne Konsistenz mit Werten für McDonalds ω≥0,87. Entgegen den Annahmen fanden sich keine relevanten Zusammenhänge zwischen der um ein Item gekürzten Gesamtskala (PSS-17) einschließlich der Subskalen und soziodemographischen Merkmalen, jedoch hypothesenkonforme Assoziationen mit familiärer Dysfunktion sowie aktueller Depressivität und Ängstlichkeit. Obwohl mit der deutschen Version der PSS Stressbelastung durch Elternschaft anwendungsökonomisch, ausreichend reliabel und valide erfasst werden kann, legen die Befunde zur faktoriellen Validität nahe, dass das Verfahren der Multidimensionalität des zugrundeliegenden Konstrukts nur bedingt gerecht wird. Dieser Aspekt ist bei der klinischen und wissenschaftlichen Anwendung einschränkend zu berücksichtigen.

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“…Interventions should be family-based and provide support for both the victims of abuse, and their parents and siblings. There is evidence for the effectiveness of family-based interventions including home-based parent support (Guterman et al, 2013), or multisystemic therapy (Hefti et al, 2020;Swenson et al, 2010).…”

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The environment of intrafamilial offenders – A systematic review of dynamics in incestuous families

2021

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The aim of this study was to identify family characteristics and dynamics relevant to the initiation and maintenance of intrafamilial child sexual abuse. An understanding of essential characteristics of the affected families could help to prevent such crimes. In order to provide an overview of the current state of research, a literature review based on the PRISMA criteria was conducted. For the research in the databases PsycInfo and PSYNDEX, predetermined criteria and search terms were used. Fifteen relevant articles from 1991 to 2020 were identified. The studies examined perpetrator-victim relationships, the role of the mother, the relationship between the parents and characteristics of the families in which child sexual abuse took place. Relevant core characteristics of incestuous families are dysfunctional, violent, and conflictual relationships between the parents, and between parents and children. However, these factors are often not specific to intrafamilial abuse. Only six articles published after 2000 were identified. Little evidence for each individual construct was found, so the effects should not be overestimated. Further research on intrafamilial child sexual abuse is necessary.

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Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect: Do Parents Show Improvement in Parental Mental Health Problems and Parental Stress?

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Parental Mental Health Problems and the Risk of Child Maltreatment: The Potential Role of Psychotherapy

Parental Mental Health Problems and the Risk of Child Maltreatment: The Potential Role of Psychotherapy

Stress durch Elternschaft: Psychometrische Evaluation der deutschen Version der Parental Stress Scale in der Allgemeinbevölkerung

The environment of intrafamilial offenders – A systematic review of dynamics in incestuous families

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