Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments: An Evaluation Guide » (1st Edition)

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.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Child Maltreatment: What Is It?	7
Ch. 2	The Impact of Child Maltreatment	17
	The Impact of Child Maltreatment on Attachment Security	18
	The Impact of Physical Abuse	19
	The Impact of Sexual Abuse	20
	The Impact of Psychological Maltreatment	21
	The Impact of Exposure to Family Violence	22
	The Impact of Neglect	23
	The Impact of Multiple Forms of Child Maltreatment	24
	Comparative Studies of the Impact of Abuse and Neglect	25
	The Impact of Marginal Maltreatment	25
	The Impact of Mediating Factors	27
Ch. 3	Risk Assessment	33
	Problems and Strategies for Assessing Violence	33
	Historical or Developmental Factors	38
	Personal or Dispositional Factors	56
	Clinical or Symptom Factors	72
	Current Situation and Contextual Factors	75
	Final Remarks	83
Ch. 4	Formulating Risk Management Strategies	85
	Introduction	85
	Treatment Outcome Literature: A Brief Review	87
	Parenting Training Interventions	89
	Comprehensive and Ecobehavioral Programs	91
	Child-Centered Services and Treatment Interventions	96
	Facilitating Parent-Child Relationships	100
	Individual Therapy and Long-term Therapy with Parents	103
	Abuse-Focused Interventions	104
	Parents with Mental Retardation	124
	Substance Abuse	125
	Mental Health Interventions	125
	Relapse Prevention	126
	Facilitating Motivation for Positive Change	127
	Final Remarks	129
Ch. 5	Putting It All Together	131
	Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments: A Specialized Evaluation Area	131
	Forensic versus Clinical Evaluations	134
	Components of the Evaluation Report	137
	Conducting and Writing Quality Evaluations	170
	Professional Issues	172
	References	179
	Index	215