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Identification, Screening, and Assessment of Child Abuse & Neglect
Each year, hundreds of thousands of children in the United States experience abuse or neglect. A greater understanding of the risk factors and strategies for screening can help professionals working with children and families identify different types of maltreatment and high-risk situations.
Assessment Issues in Child Abuse Evaluations
Milner, Murphy, Valle, & Tolliver (1998)
In Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment
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Provides an overview of the most common methods used for assessing parents and suspected child abuse offenders, including interviews, observations, general personality measures, offender-specific measures, and specialized risk assessment models.
Assessment of Maltreated Children and Adolescents
Feindler, Rathus, & Silver (2003)
In Assessment of Family Violence: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners
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Describes 61 measures pertaining to child victims or witnesses of family violence as well as adult survivors of childhood abuse. Obstacles to reliable and comprehensive assessment and legal and ethical considerations in assessment are discussed.
Child Abuse and Neglect: Guidelines for Identification, Assessment, and Case Management
Peterson, Durfee, & Coulter (Eds.) (2003)
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Offers a standardized approach for professionals to identify, assess, and provide case management in cases of suspected child abuse and neglect.
Child Maltreatment: A Clinical Guide and Reference
Giardino & Alexander (2005, 3rd ed.)
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Written to help health-care professionals, social service providers, and law enforcement personnel meet the challenges that arise in dealing with child maltreatment, including identification of types of abuse and assessment.
Child Victims and Witnesses of Family and Community Violence
Webb (2003)
In Social Work Practice with Children
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Considerations for the assessment and treatment of child victims and witnesses. The author recommends the use of a three-part assessment approach to evaluate the impact of violence on children by examining the crisis itself, the child's characteristics and history, and the availability of support.
The Development of the Comprehensive Child Maltreatment Scale
Higgins & McCabe
Journal of Family Studies, 7(1), 2001
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A description and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Comprehensive Child Maltreatment Scale, which assesses five separate types of maltreatment experienced during childhood and the existence of multitype maltreatment.
Evaluation of Suspected Child Physical Abuse
Kellogg
Pediatrics, 119(6), 2007
Outlines an approach to the medical assessment of suspected physical abuse in children.
Identification of Child Maltreatment With the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales: Development and Psychometric Data for a National Sample of American Parents
Straus, Hamby, Finkelhor, Moore, & Runyan
Child Abuse and Neglect, 22(4), 1998
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Describes the development of the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales, a parent-to-child version of the Conflict Tactics Scales that has demonstrated success in measuring child maltreatment.
Issues and Strategies for Assessment Approaches to Child Maltreatment (PDF - 1018 KB)
National Resource Center on Child Maltreatment (2000)
Defines assessment, reviews the state of the art of CPS assessment, reviews findings from etiological research, considers the assessor's role, and examines how assessment informs treatment.
Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire: Basic Screen Questions (PDF - 106 KB)
Crimes Against Children Research Center (2004)
Overview of the types of experiences assessed by the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire. Items focus on conventional crime, child maltreatment, peer and sibling victimization, sexual assault, witnessing and indirect victimization, and extraordinary or catastrophic victimization. Also view the Administration and Scoring Manual (PDF - 487 KB)
Systematizing the Assessment of Exposure to Child Maltreatment
Holden (2003)
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An evaluation of the Child Maltreatment Log, a comprehensive PC-based instrument facilitating the collection of information about multiple types of maltreatment experiences to assist social workers in the decision-making process.
Tough Problems, Tough Choices: Guidelines for Needs-Based Service Planning in Child Welfare
American Humane Association (2003)
Guidelines for case plan development and child welfare service delivery, including a checklist of factors affecting abused and neglected children and alternatives for services and supports that may be provided to the family.
Understanding the Medical Diagnosis of Child Maltreatment: A Guide for Non-Medical Professionals
Brittain (Ed.) (2006, 3rd ed.)
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Written for child welfare workers and other nonmedical professionals, this text explains medical terminology and examination findings that indicate child abuse or neglect.
The Victimization of Children: Recommendations for Assessment and Instrument Development
Hamby & Finkelhor
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 39(7), 2000
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Recommendations for the improvement of assessment instruments so they are comprehensive, methodologically sound, and relevant to multiple settings that work with child victims.
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