Participants' perceptions of healthy families: A home visitation program to prevent child abuse and neglect

Krysik, Judy; LeCroy, Craig Winston; Ashford, José B.

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2007.06.004

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“…Furthermore, this study's findings suggest that counsellors/therapists may help to facilitate caseworker–parent collaboration, which has been identified as an important factor in addressing child maltreatment risks (Krysik, LeCroy, & Ashford, 2008). Clinicians in this study reported helping parents to understand the benefits of fulfilling CPS requirements and the importance of establishing a working alliance with their caseworkers.…”

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confidence: 81%

Psychotherapy for child welfare cases: Clinicians' and parents' perspectives

Yoo

Racorean²,

Barrows

2020

Child & Family Social Work

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Parents involved with child protective services (CPS) often face various challenges, including sociostructural marginalization, mental illness and difficulties in family relationships. Although their need for mental health services is generally acknowledged, the extant child welfare literature lacks studies on how CPS-involved parents may benefit from such services. In an attempt to address this gap, the current study seeks to explore clinicians' and parents' perspectives regarding the role of psychotherapy services (e.g. individual or conjoint counselling/therapy) for child welfare cases. Semistructured interviews were conducted with clinicians working with CPS-involved families and parents accused of child maltreatment. Thematic analysis of the interview data generated three themes: (1) psychotherapy as a place for safety and empathy, (2) psychotherapy as a place for challenge and (3) psychotherapy as a place for problem resolution. The findings suggest that psychotherapy services may benefit CPS-involved parents not only by offering much-needed emotional support and resources within sessions but also by facilitating parents' collaboration with CPS through their partnership with caseworkers outside of sessions. For child welfare practice, it is recommended that psychotherapy services be included from the outset of parents' CPS involvement to promote their psychological and relational well-being as well as their successful completion of CPS requirements. K E Y W O R D S psychotherapy, counselling, parents involved with child protective services, therapeutic intervention, therapy 1 | INTRODUCTION Child maltreatment is a pervasive concern in the United States, with an estimated 674 000 children victimized and the national victim rate reaching 9.1 per 1000 children in 2017 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 2019). Upon the receipt of referrals alleging child abuse/neglect, child protective services (CPS) screens the referrals and then investigates the screened-in reports to ascertain whether child abuse or neglect has occurred, to assess the risks for child maltreatment and to determine the need for further intervention (USDHHS, 2019). While the specifics of CPS services vary by state, the collective vision is to assist families in ensuring their child's safety and well-being, with consideration given to how each family's experience of social and environmental challenges may have contributed to the occurrence of child maltreatment (Kyte, Trocmé, & Chamberland, 2013). The goal of CPS intervention, therefore, is to address not only problematic parenting but also familial and community-level risks through a wide variety of services, such as housing assistance, material/financial aid, medical care and social support (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2006; USDHHS, 2019). Given that the majority (77.6% in 2017) of all perpetrators of child maltreatment are parents of the victims (USDHHS, 2019), CPS intervention often includes services that specifically address parents' needs. In particular, the imp...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 81%

Psychotherapy for child welfare cases: Clinicians' and parents' perspectives

Yoo

Racorean²,

Barrows

2020

Child & Family Social Work

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“…Paris and Dubus (2005) found that mothers in their study were comfortable talking to home visitors about their struggles and looked forward to their visits each week. In a similar study by Krysik and colleagues (2008), mothers who indicated a strong need for services seemed to understand why home visitors were asking specific questions of a more personal nature and viewed their home visits as helpful and important.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Respectful and trusting relationships are critical to the delivery of EBHV services and have been found to yield better outcomes for families (Krysik, LeCroy, & Ashford, 2008; Paris & Dubus, 2005). In fact, some studies have indicated that families are more likely to engage in services when home visitors show that they can take on the challenge of addressing concerns within the home, such as access to basic needs and other community services (Azzi-Lessing, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Supporting Family Engagement in Home Visiting With the Family Map Inventories

Kyzer

Whiteside-Mansell

McKelvey

et al. 2016

Infants &Amp; Young Children

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The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility and usefulness of a universal screening tool, the Family Map Inventory (F MI), to assess family strengths and needs in a home visiting program. The FMI has been used successfully by center-based early childcare programs to tailor services to family need and build on existing strengths. Home visiting coordinators (N = 39) indicated the FMI would provide useful information, and they had the capacity to implement. In total, 70 families who enrolled in a Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program were screened by the coordinator. The results of the FMI provided meaningful information about the home and parenting environment. Overall, most caregivers provided high levels of school readiness and parental warmth and low levels of family conflict and parenting stress. On the other hand, many families did not provide adequate food quality, exhibited chaotic home environments, and practiced negative discipline. This study demonstrated that the FMI is a feasible and useful option to assess comprehensive family needs in home visiting programs. It also demonstrated that the FMI provided home visiting coordinators a system to measure family strengths and needs. This could provide an assessment of program effectiveness and changes in the family’s environment.

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“…The authors contended that finding common ground was a way of gaining "emotional entry" (p. 65) to the mothers. Other qualitative studies also have emphasized the importance of personal qualities in relationships mothers form with paraprofessionals, for both the mother and the service provider (Korfmacher & Marchi, 2002;Krysik, LeCroy, & Ashford, 2008). These qualitative studies provide for a richer understanding of the role of the relationship between service providers and mothers.…”

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The good, the bad, and the ambivalent: Quality of alliance in a support program for young mothers

Humphries

Korfmacher

2012

Infant Mental Health Journal

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The relationship that develops between early childhood service providers and parents is seen as a critical component in program implementation, although little is known about how service providers and parents view this relationship. The current qualitative study examines the helping relationship between doulas and 12 African American adolescent mothers who participated in a larger study of prenatal and postnatal support. Mothers and their doulas were interviewed separately at the beginning and the end of program participation about the quality of the helping relationship and how they spent their time together. Content analysis revealed positive, negative, and ambivalent themes in mothers' and doulas' descriptions of their relationships, although the majority of the relationships were considered positive. For the most part, doulas and mothers agreed on the quality of the relationship that they formed with each other. Mothers were more likely to note the enjoyable aspects of spending time with their doula while doulas focused more on issues of trust and acceptance. The young mothers and doulas often considered amount of contact and availability (or lack thereof) as a sign of the quality of the relationship. Results are discussed in terms of the professional role of the doula and cultural influences in help-giving behavior.

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Participants' perceptions of healthy families: A home visitation program to prevent child abuse and neglect

Cited by 21 publications

References 14 publications

Psychotherapy for child welfare cases: Clinicians' and parents' perspectives

Psychotherapy for child welfare cases: Clinicians' and parents' perspectives

Supporting Family Engagement in Home Visiting With the Family Map Inventories

The good, the bad, and the ambivalent: Quality of alliance in a support program for young mothers

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