The importance of adjudication in the treatment of child abusers: Some preliminary findings

Wolfe, David A.; Aragona, John A.; Kaufman, Keith L.; Sandler, Jack

doi:10.1016/0145-2134(80)90022-8

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“…The influence of court orders on treatment participation has been the subject of several other studies in child welfare (e.g., Wolfe et al 1980;Irueste-Montes and Montes 1988;Famularo et al 1989), but results are not consistent across studies. It seems that a reciprocal relationship may exist between court involvement and treatment participation.…”

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confidence: 94%

A Multilevel Model of Client Participation in Intensive Family Preservation Services

Littell

Tajima

2000

Social Service Review

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We identify two distinct components of parent participation in intensive family preservation services: collaboration in treatment planning and compliance with program expectations. Using hierarchical linear models, we explore influences on collaboration and compliance at the case, worker, and program levels. Effects of cross-level interactions are also examined. Parental substance abuse, mental health problems, minority status, and lack of extended family support predict lower levels of participation. Workers' perceptions of their clients and of their own working conditions appear to influence client participation. Program factors matter as well, although some operate in tandem with case characteristics and worker perceptions.

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A Multilevel Model of Client Participation in Intensive Family Preservation Services

Littell

Tajima

2000

Social Service Review

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“…In one of the few published empirical studies, mandated participants in a treatment program for child abusers performed as well as nonmandated clients in terms of attendance, participation levels, and improvements in communication with their children Mandated parents were found to be substantially (50%) less verbally critical with their children than they had been prior to treatment (Irueste‐Montes & Montes, 1988). In another study, court‐mandated parents were found to be five times more likely than voluntary parents to successfully complete the treatment program (Wolfe, Aragona, Kaufman, & Sandler, 1980). Perhaps the fear of losing their children to state authorities, and ongoing supervision by such authorities, provided sufficient motivation for mandated parents to comply with treatment program objectives.…”

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An Examination of Mandated Versus Voluntary Referral as a Determinant of Clinical Outcome

Snyder

Anderson²

2009

J Marital Family Therapy

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A literature review was undertaken to examine evidence for the effectiveness of psychotherapy with mandated clients. The primary question addressed was whether or not clients mandated to therapy, whether by court order or by order of their employers, show poorer outcomes than clients who enter therapy voluntarily. To this end, research on client resistance and motivational readiness to change was reviewed. This was followed by an examination of research on the effectiveness of mandated treatment. The question of the potential influence of relationship factors such as the therapeutic alliance was also addressed. The literature review was followed by suggestions for future research on the effectiveness of treatment for clients with mandated or voluntary referral status.

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“…This possibility is supported by interventions with antisocial children (e.g., Forehand, Wells, & Griest, 1980;Patterson, 1976), which indicate that planned reductions in the frequencies of daily parent-child relationship problems may also yield reductions in more molar indices of child antisocial behavior. Similarly, data reported by Wolfe, Aragona, Kaufman, and Sandler (1980) and Reid (in press) suggest that a curtailment of parental abuse may follow planned reductions in parent-child aversive exchanges. If this is correct, repeated aversive exchanges between parent and child may be part of an adverse process involving eventual episodes of harmful aggression.…”

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Maintenance Factors in Coercive Mother‐child Interactions: The Compliance and Predictability Hypotheses

Wahler

Dumas

1986

J of App Behav Analysis

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Two stimulus control processes by which some parent-child dyads occasionally escalate their aversive exchanges into progressively more coercive interactions are described. The compliance hypothesis suggests that aversive actions have instructional properties for the dyad and that parent compliance with such child instructions maintains behavior chains of increasing aversiveness. The predictability hypothesis suggests that social interactions are most likely to function as aversive stimuli in the dyad when delivered in unpredictable fashion by either party and that responses instrumental in reducing dyadic unpredictability maintain aversive behavior chains. Expectations derived from both hypotheses are evaluated in a series of correlational analyses of mother-child interactions obtained in extended baseline observations of three dyads seeking psychological help for severe interactional problems. Results provide tentative support for the predictability hypothesis and suggest important avenues of further research.

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The importance of adjudication in the treatment of child abusers: Some preliminary findings

Cited by 32 publications

References 10 publications

A Multilevel Model of Client Participation in Intensive Family Preservation Services

A Multilevel Model of Client Participation in Intensive Family Preservation Services

An Examination of Mandated Versus Voluntary Referral as a Determinant of Clinical Outcome

Maintenance Factors in Coercive Mother‐child Interactions: The Compliance and Predictability Hypotheses

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