Training child abusers in the use of positive reinforcement practices

Sandler, Jack; Dercar, Candy Van; Milhoan, Mariann

doi:10.1016/0005-7967(78)90063-3

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“…The efficacy of parent training-based approaches for the treatment of physically abusive parents has been supported by a number of single and multiple case studies (Crimmins, Bradlyn, St. Lawrence, & Kelly, 1984;Gilbert, 1976;Jeffrey, 1976;Sandler, Van Dercar, & Milhoan, 1978;D. A. Wolfe et al, 1982), a study using a repeated measures design (Wahler, 1980), and anumber of group design investigations (Azar & Twentyman, 1984;Reid, Taplin, & Lorber, 1981;Szykula & Fleischman, 1985;.…”

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Empirical Research on Child Abuse Treatment: Report by the Child Abuse and Neglect Treatment Working Group, American Psychological Association

Becker

Alpert

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et al. 1995

Journal of Clinical Child Psychology

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Reviewed empirical research on the short-and long-term effects of four major types of child maltreatment (physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect). Outcome research for a variety of treatments for child victims of abuse and for adults abused as children suggests that treatment is effective; however, comprehensive and carefully designed studies have not been done. Likewise, outcome research for treatment efforts with parents and caregivers who engage in child maltreatment is limited, but evidence supports treatment efficacy. Thirteen recommendations are offered pertaining to improvement of conceptualization, treatment, and research in the area of child maltreatment.

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Section: Physical Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

Empirical Research on Child Abuse Treatment: Report by the Child Abuse and Neglect Treatment Working Group, American Psychological Association

Becker

Alpert

BigFoot

et al. 1995

Journal of Clinical Child Psychology

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“…The Orion treatment intervention program is within the tradition of the social learning approach to family dysfunction (Dumas, 1984; Patterson, Reid, Jones, & Conger, 1975; Sandler, Van Dercar, & Milhean, 1978; Wolfe, Sandler, & Kaufman, 1981). According to this approach, parents with problems in communication lack effective, nonabusive techniques for relating to their children, and have never learned how to listen with a minimum of sensitivity to their children's needs.…”

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Video Home Training (the Orion Project): A Short‐Term Preventive and Treatment Intervention for Families with Young Children

1994

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Developed in Holland and based on short-term, home-centered, filmed video feedback of family interactions, an experimental Orion project was conducted in Israel to determine whether it could be provided through local welfare departments as a routine treatment alternative. This article summarizes an evaluation of 52 families (with problems in parent-child interaction) and 64 control families that participated in the Orion Video Home-Training Project. Only the Orion families showed significant gains in all the eight areas of positive parent-child communication that are the focus of the program, which is based on reinforcing potential family strengths. These gains were generally sustained 6 months after program completion. There were several background variables, such as family status, income, health, education, and employment, that influenced the extent of family gains.

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“…The lack of useful reliability data constitutes additional weaknesses in the methodologies of several of the data-based reports. In 2 of the 11 studies no reliability data were presented, and in 2 other studies, estimates for only some of the dependent variables were presented (Sandier et al, 1978;Jeffery, 1976). In addition, four other investigators reported only an overall reliability, with no separate estimates for specific dependent measures.…”

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Treatment of Child Abuse: A Review of the Behavioral Interventions

Isaacs

1982

J of App Behav Analysis

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Child abuse has probably existed as a social problem as long as parents and children have lived under the same roof, and in recent years it has received tremendous attention. Most of the research has focused on etiology rather than treatment, leaving large gaps in our knowledge about remediating abuse. Behavioral scientists have only begun to formulate a conceptual framework from which to work. Many theoretical questions are yet unanswered, particularly the question of what constitutes abuse. Burgess (1978) believes that conceptual problems exist because abuse falls along a continuum of parent-child relationships--a continuum that at one end might include verbal punishment (e.g., threats, ridicule) or milder forms of physical punishment (e.g., slap on the hand, spanking), and at the other end include extreme forms of physical punishment that exceed community mores (for example, hitting a child with a closed fist, scalding a child in hot water, torturing or killing a child). Thus, the question-- where does discipline stop and abuse begin?-- faces every researcher who must operationally define abuse. Identifying the consequences of abuse in a child's development is another area of inquiry that remains untreated. Most of the literature is filled with the subjective impressions of professionals speculating that abused children become the juvenile delinquents and the child abusers of the future; however, as yet no longitudinal studies have been conducted that compare the developmental outcomes of abused and non-abused children from early childhood to later adulthood. What if there were no differences? How might this influence our approaches to the treatment of abuse? Answers to these and other questions will take years of study. Increased awareness of the problem of child abuse has led to greater efforts to remediate the problem. Treatment efforts with abusive families are still in the initial stages, but, undoubtedly, information from these early programs can be the foundation for future researchers to formulate new, more effective intervention programs. Future researchers should focus on identifying those aspects of existing programs that lend themselves to empirical study and have led to more successful parent-child relationships.

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Training child abusers in the use of positive reinforcement practices

Cited by 42 publications

References 5 publications

Empirical Research on Child Abuse Treatment: Report by the Child Abuse and Neglect Treatment Working Group, American Psychological Association

Empirical Research on Child Abuse Treatment: Report by the Child Abuse and Neglect Treatment Working Group, American Psychological Association

Video Home Training (the Orion Project): A Short‐Term Preventive and Treatment Intervention for Families with Young Children

Treatment of Child Abuse: A Review of the Behavioral Interventions

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