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Crisis Intervention in Child Abuse and Neglect

Author(s):   U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Gentry, C. E.

Year Published:  1994

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Glossary Of Terms

Borderline Personality Disorder – Characterized by instability of self-image, mood, and interpersonal relationships by early adulthood. Impulsiveness, poor anger control, suicidal or self-mutilating behaviors, intense fear of abandonment, feelings of emptiness, and affective instability are present fairly frequently and in response to real or imagined stress.

Case Plan – The professional document which specifies the goals and strategies to be used to change the conditions and behaviors contributing to child abuse and neglect.

Case Planning – The stage of the child protection intervention process when the CPS caseworker and other service providers develop a case plan with the family members.

Co-morbidity – The co-existence of syndromes or diagnosable disorders such as mental illness and alcoholism or mental illness and mental retardation.

Crisis – A situation or circumstance, usually of recent origin, which breaks down the individual's or the family's usual pattern of functioning and cannot be resolved with usual coping behaviors. Generally, clients can wait 24 to 72 hours for a response, and the acute crisis state will last no longer than 4 to 6 weeks.

Dissociative Identity Disorder – Formerly multiple personality disorder. Two or more personality states that recurrently take control of behavior, and there is inability to recall important personal information.

Dual Diagnosis – The co-existence of two conditions. Examples are mental illness and substance abuse, or mental retardation and mental illness.

Evaluation of Family Progress – The stage of the child protection intervention process (after the case plan has been implemented) when the CPS caseworker and other service providers determine changes in family behaviors, the reduction of risk of child maltreatment, and the need for continued services. Frequently, community service providers coordinate their evaluation of case progress through periodic team meetings.

Family Assessment – The stage of the child protection process when the CPS caseworker, other service providers, and the family reach a mutual understanding about the most critical service and treatment needs and the family strengths on which to build.

Family-Based, Home-Based, or In-Home Services – Early interventions that are aimed at keeping children in their homes, keeping family members safe, and strengthening the family unit.

Family Preservation Services – Coordinated and time-limited crisis intervention services, aimed at preventing removal of a child to out-of-home care, while also assuring the child's and family's safety.

Flashback – The emotional reexperiencing of a traumatic event.

Multidisciplinary Team – A group established among agencies and professionals within the child protection system to discuss cases of child abuse and neglect and make decisions during various stages of the case.

Multiple Personality Disorder – Two or more distinct personalities exist within a person.

Nonoffending Parent (NOP) – Particularly in incest cases, this term is used to designate the parent who is not an active abuser of the child.

Out-of-Home Care – Respite care, foster care, or residential care provided by persons, organizations, and institutions to children living away from their families, usually under the jurisdiction of Juvenile/Family Court.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – A diagnosis based on symptoms of fear, terror, helplessness, avoidance of stimuli associated with past trauma, emotional numbing, sleep problems, irritability, hypervigilance, depression, anxiety, and poor concentration.

Primary Prevention – Activities or education for the general populous in an attempt to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Risk – The likelihood that a child will be maltreated in the future.

Risk Assessment – An assessment and measurement of the likelihood that a child will be maltreated in the future, usually through the use of checklists, matrixes, scales, and/or other methods of measurement.

Risk Factors – Behaviors and conditions present in the child, parent, family, and/or community which suggest that child maltreatment may occur in the future.

Secondary Prevention – Early intervention activities targeted to prevent breakdowns and dysfunction among families identified as "at-risk" for child abuse and neglect.

Treatment – The stage of the child protection intervention process when CPS, other crisis intervention workers, and/or other service providers work toward the reduction of child maltreatment risk.

Wrap-around Services – Family preservation services, geared to meet the total needs of the family through the use of community resources, concrete services, and counseling.

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