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Assessment Issues in Child Abuse Evaluations

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Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment

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Professionals have used a variety of techniques to evaluate offender characteristics thought to be related to child abuse. Current assessment approaches include the use of interviews, observations, general personality measures, offender-specific measures, and specialized risk assessment models. Offender evaluations are conducted for a variety of reasons, including screening for child abuse risk status, child abuse report confirmation, treatment planning, treatment evaluation, and prediction of reabuse. Unfortunately, as detailed here, supportive psychometric data are frequently lacking on the appropriateness of using available assessment techniques in various evaluation situations. Even when psychometric data exist, information is rarely available on the appropriateness of using different assessment techniques with demographically diverse populations.

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