Full Description
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 authorseach with an extensive background in forensic child abuse evaluationpresent 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.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Child Maltreatment: What Is It?
Definitions of Abuse
Chapter 2. The Impact of Child Maltreatment
The Impact of Child Maltreatment on Attachment Security
The Impact of Physical Abuse
The Impact of Sexual Abuse
The Impact of Psychological Maltreatment
The Impact of Exposure to Family Violence
The Impact of Neglect
The Impact of Multiple Forms of Child Maltreatment
Comparative Studies of the Impact of Abuse and Neglect
The Impact of Marginal Maltreatment
The Impact of Mediating Factors
Chapter 3. Risk Assessment
Problems and Strategies for Assessing Violence
Historical or Developmental Factors
Personal or Dispositional Factors
Clinical or Symptom Factors
Current Situation and Contextual Factors
Final Remarks
Chapter 4. Formulating Risk Management Strategies
Introduction
Treatment Outcome Literature: A Brief Review
Parenting Training Interventions
Comprehensive and Ecobehavioral Programs
Child-Centered Services and Treatment Interventions
Facilitating Parent-Child Relationships
Individual Therapy and Long-Term Therapy with Parents
Abuse-Focused Interventions
Parents with Mental Retardation
Substance Abuse
Mental Health Interventions
Relapse Prevention
Facilitating Motivation for Positive Change
Final Remarks
Chapter 5. Putting It All Together
Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments: A Specialized Evaluation Area
Forensic versus Clinical Evaluations
Components of the Evaluation Report
Conducting and Writing Quality Evaluations
Professional Issues
References
Index
