Primary prevention of child abuse and neglect: Identification of high-risk adolescents
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Reconsidering success for an integrated family dependency treatment court
2020, Children and Youth Services ReviewCitation Excerpt :As part of their treatment, participants in FDTC received individual and group counseling each week. These counseling sessions included an evidence-based trauma-informed counseling component entitled Seeking Safety (Najavits, 2002), as well as an intervention to foster parental nurturing (Nurturing Parents; Bavolek, Kline, & McLaughlin, 1979), both intended to holistically promote families’ safety and well-being. FDTC participants were also required to attend weekly Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous self-help groups, undergo two random drug screens each week, and appear in court bi-weekly.
Implicit measures of child abuse and neglect: A systematic review
2016, Aggression and Violent BehaviorCitation Excerpt :Studies with abusive or neglectful parents recruited them in child protection services, where they had been referred for abusive or neglectful parental practices (e.g. Camras et al., 1988; Francis & Wolfe, 2008; Hildyard & Wolfe, 2007). The remaining studies used samples of individuals with high and low-risk of child physical abuse assessed with two different instruments: Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI; Milner, 1986) that consists of a paper and pencil questionnaire with 160 items evaluating a set of characteristics, which have been shown to be present in abusive parents, in comparison with non-abusive, including intrapersonal factors (distress, rigidity, unhappiness) and interpersonal characteristics (problems with child and self, problems with family, and problems with others; e.g., Hiraoka et al., 2014; Rodriguez, 2013); Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI; Bavolek, Kline, McLaughlin, & Publicover, 1979), a paper and pencil questionnaire to assess attitudes towards parenting and child-rearing among adolescents and adults, that includes 32 items grouped into 4 scales (inappropriate parental expectations of the child, lack of empathy towards children's needs, parental value of physical punishment, and parent–child role reversal). These tools were both validated with parents and non-parents samples and provide a reliable measure of risk for child abuse.
Effect of an integrated family dependency treatment court on child welfare reunification, time to permanency and re-entry rates
2012, Children and Youth Services ReviewCitation Excerpt :As part of their intensive outpatient therapy, participants received 8 hours of group counseling and 1 hour of individual counseling each week. These group counseling sessions also included an evidence-based trauma-informed psycho-educational counseling component (TRIAD; Clark et al., 2004), as well as an intervention to foster parental nurturing (Nurturing Parents; Bavolek, Kline, & McLaughlin, 1979), both intended to promote families' safety and well-being. FDTC participants were also required to attend weekly Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous self-help groups, undergo three random drug screens each week, and make bi-weekly court appearances.
Toward a cumulative ecological risk model for the etiology of child maltreatment
2011, Children and Youth Services ReviewCitation Excerpt :This measure (Bavolek, 1984) of maternal child-rearing beliefs includes items pertaining to four constructs often related to child maltreatment: appropriate expectations for child development, rejection of physical punishment, empathy for the child's needs, and assumption of appropriate parent–child roles. Each of these constructs is represented by items rated on a 5-point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree and had displayed good reliability and content and construct validity (Bavolek, Kline, McLaughlin, & Publicover, 1979). In the current sample alphas for the various subscales ranged from a low of .75 for rejection of physical punishment to a high of .91 for appropriate family roles.
Dosage matters: The relationship between participation in the Nurturing Parenting Program for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers and subsequent child maltreatment
2011, Children and Youth Services ReviewCitation Excerpt :The NPP (Bavolek, 2005) is based on social learning theory (Bandura, 1977, 1986) and the associated premise that most parenting patterns are learned during childhood and replicated later in life when the child becomes a parent. The program is designed to assess, prevent, and treat maltreatment by developing nurturing parenting skills as a counter to the key constructs of abusive and neglectful parenting identified by Bavolek, Kline, McLaughlin, and Publicover (1979) from the literature and expert advisors (as cited in Bavolek, 2005). The constructs center around parental expectations of the child, empathy toward children's needs, use of corporal punishment as a means of discipline, parent-child role responsibilities, and children's power and independence.
Empathy and child neglect: A theoretical model
2008, Child Abuse and NeglectCitation Excerpt :It has been proposed that the emotion that mediates the relationship between the perception of a child in need and appropriate helping responses is empathy, which implies feelings that are more congruent with another's situation than with one's own situation (Hoffman, 1992). The inability to be empathically aware of their children's needs and to respond to these needs in an appropriate fashion is considered a common trait of maltreating parents (Bavolek, Kline, & McLaughlin, 1979; Steele, 1980). It is relevant to know that one of the six assumptions of the Nurturing Parenting Programs (developed by the National Institute of Mental Health in 1979) was that “empathy is the single most desirable quality in nurturing parenting (Bavolek, 2000, p. 5).
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