Treating Child-Abusive Families
Intervention Based on Skills-Training Principles
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A Social-Learning Model of Child Abuse
As we pointed out earlier, describing a behavioral phenomenon such as child abuse represents only the first level or our knowledge about it. The next step is to integrate what is known about abuse into a conce...
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Interdisciplinary Team Coordination in Abuse Cases
A number of different hel** professionals are typically involved with the child-abusive family. As we saw in Chapter 1, the manner in which a parent is first identified as abusive and enters the social or ch...
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Intervening to Reduce Life-Style Risk Factors of Abusive Parents
To this point, we have considered the role of child-management and anger-control skill deficits as contributors to child abuse, and have discussed interventions for each. Since episodes of violence can often b...
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The Incidence and Scope of Child-Abusive Behavior
Maltreatment of children by their parents is not a new development in the history of societies. As investigators like Burgess (1979) and Steele (1976) have pointed out, violence within families has probably ex...
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Directions for Preventive Intervention
For clinicians working with child-abusive families, treatment of the client family is often the immediate, pressing, and understandable priority. However, since annual child abuse incidence estimates range fro...
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Training Abusive Parents to Use Nonviolent Child Discipline Strategies
When family assessment indicates that parents are relying on excessively harsh corporal punishment to control child misbehavior, and especially if instances of child injury are traceable to the parent’s use of...
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Anger-Control Training for Abusive Parents
Earlier, when a social-learning conceptualization of child abuse was first described, we noted that parent anger is often an immediate antecedent to a child-abusive act. With the unusual exception of parents w...
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Characteristics of Abusive Parents and Abused Children
In any area of science, and certainly in the study of human behavior, there is a series of progressive steps that characterize our level of understanding of a phenomenon. The first and most basic step toward u...
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The Clinical Assessment of Child-Abusive Families
In previous chapters, we considered a number of different characteristics and parent skill deficits that appear capable of producing child-abusive behavior. It should be evident, however, that an important cli...
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Teaching Parents to Use Positive Reinforcement Skills
While teaching abusive parents nonviolent methods to control child misbehavior is often an immediate, necessary aim of child-management training, it is rarely a sufficient form of family intervention. Simply s...
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Outpatient Treatment of Schizophrenics
In the United States, over 1% of the population carries a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Schizophrenics occupy one-third to one-half of all psychiatric hospital beds (Goodwin & Guze, 1979), and compared to other ...
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Cognitive problem-solving training to improve the child-care judgment of child neglectful parents
Child neglect, the failure to adequately meet a youngster's care needs, is the most frequent form of child maltreatment reported to welfare authorities. However, there have been few empirical reports of treatm.....
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Mental Retardation
One of the most frequent reasons for referring a child for assessment is to ascertain the youngster’s intellectual functioning level. Quite often, in the case of children with apparent developmental lags, the ...
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Treating the Child Abuser
Scientific, empirically based approaches to the treatment of any problem depend upon the adequacy of theoretical models concerning the cause of the problem. As discussed in other chapters, for many years there...
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The Delivery of Health Care Services to Older Adults
As the elderly population of the United States increases, the demand for medical services for the aged will also increase. The medical needs of older people are varied and necessitate the services of a variety...
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HIV, Sex, and Social Change: Applying ESID Principles to HIV Prevention Research
The HIV epidemic has been the most significant public health crisis of the last 2 decades. Although Experimental Social Innovation and Dissemination (ESID) principles have been used by many HIV prevention rese...
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Depressive Symptomatology among HIV-Positive Women in the Era of HAART: A Stress and Co** Model
Objective: An enhanced stress and co** model was used to explain depression among HIV-positive women in healthcare and community settings where highly active anti-retroviral treatment (HAART) was commonplace...
