Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments: An Evaluation Guide
Conduct targeted and focused evaluations of child abuse and neglect!\ Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments: An Evaluation Guide is a professional practice manual designed to assist clinicians in conducting forensic risk assessment in child maltreatment cases. The authors—each with an extensive background in forensic child abuse evaluation—present up-to-date research findings and provide practical, fact-based information on key issues. The book is an essential reference source on procedural...
Search in google:
Conduct targeted and focused evaluations of child abuse and neglect!Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments: An Evaluation Guide is a professional practice manual designed to assist clinicians in conducting forensic risk assessment in child maltreatment cases. The authors—each with an extensive background in forensic child abuse evaluation—present up-to-date research findings and provide practical, fact-based information on key issues. The book is an essential reference source on procedural issues, treatment options, and risk management strategies necessary to make high-quality, ethical evaluations.Child maltreatment risk assessments are complex, specialized evaluations with the potential for permanent legal termination of all parent-child contact on one hand, and the possibility of injury and even death on the other. Because of the weighty nature of these issues, the legal standards imposed on individual states to justify intervention is great, and evaluators must be well versed in the most current material available. Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments provides up-to-date information on the effects of maltreatment, empirically based risk factors for child abuse and neglect, specialized assessment techniques and interventions,and professional practice issues. The book emphasizes the importance of individual and cultural differences.Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments also includes a step-by-step guide to conducting and writing quality evaluations, including: components of an evaluation report forensic versus clinical evaluations methods of assessment assessment domains and much more! Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments: An Evaluation Guide is an invaluable tool for clinicians, lawyers and judges, human service agency personnel, and others involved in child maltreatment cases as well as students who represent the next generation of clinicians working in child abuse prevention and treatment.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Ch. 1Child Maltreatment: What Is It?7Ch. 2The Impact of Child Maltreatment17The Impact of Child Maltreatment on Attachment Security18The Impact of Physical Abuse19The Impact of Sexual Abuse20The Impact of Psychological Maltreatment21The Impact of Exposure to Family Violence22The Impact of Neglect23The Impact of Multiple Forms of Child Maltreatment24Comparative Studies of the Impact of Abuse and Neglect25The Impact of Marginal Maltreatment25The Impact of Mediating Factors27Ch. 3Risk Assessment33Problems and Strategies for Assessing Violence33Historical or Developmental Factors38Personal or Dispositional Factors56Clinical or Symptom Factors72Current Situation and Contextual Factors75Final Remarks83Ch. 4Formulating Risk Management Strategies85Introduction85Treatment Outcome Literature: A Brief Review87Parenting Training Interventions89Comprehensive and Ecobehavioral Programs91Child-Centered Services and Treatment Interventions96Facilitating Parent-Child Relationships100Individual Therapy and Long-term Therapy with Parents103Abuse-Focused Interventions104Parents with Mental Retardation124Substance Abuse125Mental Health Interventions125Relapse Prevention126Facilitating Motivation for Positive Change127Final Remarks129Ch. 5Putting It All Together131Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments: A Specialized Evaluation Area131Forensic versus Clinical Evaluations134Components of the Evaluation Report137Conducting and Writing Quality Evaluations170Professional Issues172References179Index215
