Protective factors among families with children at risk of maltreatment: Follow up to early school years

Li, Fenfang; Godinet, Meripa T.; Arnsberger, Pamela

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.08.026

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“…The ability to effectively parent can act as a buffer between his or her child and the damaging effects of a violent and unsafe place of residence (Brunette and Dean 2002;Gewirtz et al 2009;Mitchell et al 2010;Weinreb et al 2006). Conversely, caregiver mental health or substance abuse problems can mediate or moderate the association of the pathways between contextual factors and child mental health and exposure to maltreatment (Li et al 2011;Manly et al 2013;Martin et al 2012).…”

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Community Adversity and Children’s Mental Health: Moderating Effects of Caregiver Service Utilization and Race on Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Problems

Briggs

Quinn

Orellana

et al. 2015

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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This study examined the relationship between community adversity and childhood internalizing and externalizing problems, and whether this relationship is moderated by service utilization and race. The study involved 3225 children ages 2-17, and their caregivers, who participated in the second cohort of the National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being. Bivariate correlation and regression analysis indicate that childhood internalizing problems were correlated with sex and community adversity. Children externalizing problems were correlated with race, sex, service utilization, and community adversity. Childhood internalizing and externalizing problems were highly correlated. Regression analysis reveals a strong relationship between community adversity and childhood externalizing problems. Service utilization was found to significantly and positively moderate the relationship between community adversity and externalizing problems. While a strong correlation between race and childhood externalizing problems exist, race did not moderate the relationship between community adversity and externalizing problems. Internalizing problems were excluded from the regression analysis since it did not correlate with any of the moderator variables. The findings are discussed and the study limitations are examined. Implications for child welfare practice, policy, and research are highlighted.

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Community Adversity and Children’s Mental Health: Moderating Effects of Caregiver Service Utilization and Race on Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Problems

Briggs

Quinn

Orellana

et al. 2015

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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“…Indeed, over 30 years ago, Garbarino (1977) observed that families with maltreated children were distinguished by their social isolation, and subsequent studies have largely confirmed these findings (Bishop & Leadbetter, 1999; Sidebotham & Heron, 2006). Complementing this research, a small but growing literature documents positive associations between social support and parenting skills (Ceballo & McLoyd, 2002; Lee, Anderson, Horowitz, & August, 2009; Taylor, Seaton, & Dominguez, 2008), and inverse associations between parents’ social support and child maltreatment (Li, Godinet, & Arnsberger, 2011; Sidebotham & Heron, 2006). However, the mechanisms through which social support protects against child maltreatment are not well understood.…”

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The Mediated and Moderated Effects of Family Support on Child Maltreatment

Martin

Gardner

Brooks‐Gunn

2011

Journal of Family Issues

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Previous research has linked parents’ social support to decreased child maltreatment but questions remain surrounding the mechanisms explaining this association. Further, it is unclear whether this association applies to support provided by family alone (and not friends), and whether it is moderated by the presence of neighborhood violence. Based on a sample of parents of children aged 3–15 in Chicago, we find that parents’ family support is associated with a lower risk of child maltreatment. This association is partly mediated by reduced parental depression, but only in neighborhoods with average or high levels of violence. In neighborhoods with low levels of violence, the inverse association between family support and maltreatment is equally strong, but it is not mediated by reduced depression.

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“…Family characteristics that are common in families experiencing poverty include young maternal age, low education, substance abuse, single parenthood, and domestic violence, which have all been consistently shown to be significant risk factors for child abuse and neglect and problematic child development (e.g., Li et al, 2011;Sidebotham & Heron, 2006). Given that problematic marital relations are more common in high-risk families, this may serve as an additional risk factor threatening parenting quality in these families (Evans, 2004), as the importance of positive marital relation and spousal support in fostering optimal quality of parent-child interactions has been confirmed in several studies (Erel & Burman, 1995).…”

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“…Children growing up in deprived contexts are also exposed to multiple stressors that are more pervasive, accumulate over time, and relate to low parenting quality and child maltreatment than those growing up in more privileged contexts (Li, Godinet, & Arnsberger, 2011). Family characteristics that are common in families experiencing poverty include young maternal age, low education, substance abuse, single parenthood, and domestic violence, which have all been consistently shown to be significant risk factors for child abuse and neglect and problematic child development (e.g., Li et al, 2011;Sidebotham & Heron, 2006).…”

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Enhancing positive parent–child interactions and family functioning in a poverty sample: a randomized control trial

Negrão

Pereira

Soares

et al. 2014

Attachment & Human Development

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This study tested the attachment-based intervention program Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD) in a randomized controlled trial with poor families of toddlers screened for professional's concerns about the child's caregiving environment. The VIPP-SD is an evidence-based intervention, but has not yet been tested in the context of poverty. The sample included 43 families with 1- to 4-year-old children: mean age at the pretest was 29 months and 51% were boys. At the pretest and posttest, mother-child interactions were observed at home, and mothers reported on family functioning. The VIPP-SD proved to be effective in enhancing positive parent-child interactions and positive family relations in a severely deprived context. Results are discussed in terms of implications for support services provided to such poor families in order to reduce intergenerational risk transmission.

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Protective factors among families with children at risk of maltreatment: Follow up to early school years

Cited by 99 publications

References 70 publications

Community Adversity and Children’s Mental Health: Moderating Effects of Caregiver Service Utilization and Race on Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Problems

Community Adversity and Children’s Mental Health: Moderating Effects of Caregiver Service Utilization and Race on Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Problems

The Mediated and Moderated Effects of Family Support on Child Maltreatment

Enhancing positive parent–child interactions and family functioning in a poverty sample: a randomized control trial

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