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NCJ Number:	152554

Title:	Predicting Child Abuse Potential Across Family Types

Journal:	Child Abuse and Neglect Volume:18 Issue:12 Dated:(December 1994) Pages:1039-1049

Author(s):	B Burrell; B Thompson; D Sexton

Date Published:	1994

Page Count:	11

Type:	Report (Study/Research)

Format:	Article

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	This study investigated the child-abuse potential of mothers of young children with disabilities (n=53) and of mothers of young children without identified disabilities (n=60).

Abstract:	Children with disabilities had a significant physical, cognitive, sensory, communication, and/or emotional/behavioral difference from the average child to the extent that special early intervention programming was necessary. Multiple measures were used to assess various aspects of several constructs. The multidimensional nature of the collection of instruments used showed the complexity of the phenomenon of child abuse by measuring a variety of aspects of a particular variable and several of the mediating variables. Individual instruments were chosen on the basis of their theoretical relevance to the study of abusive parents and parents with high levels of child abuse potential, the instrument's excellent psychometric properties, and their previous successful use in studies of child abuse or child abuse potential. Statistically and practically significant relationships were found. Stress in family functioning apparently is an important predictor of child abuse potential. Interventions might be designed to target related features of family functioning. 6 tables and 41 references

Main Term(s):	Juvenile victims

Index Term(s):	Child abuse; Child abuse prevention; Minors with Disabilities; Prediction



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