A cognitive approach to child abuse prevention.

Bugental, Daphne Blunt; Ellerson, Patricia Crane; Lin, Eta K.; Rainey, Bonnie; Kokotovic, Anna M.; O’Hara, Nathan N.

doi:10.1037/2152-0828.1.s.84

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“…For interventions designed to promote authoritative parenting attitudes, the present study suggests that attention to parental executive functions may also be a necessary step to successfully reduce high-control (e.g., authoritarian) parenting attitudes. There is a successful precedence for including emotion and cognitive control components in home-visiting programs designed to improve parenting (i.e., see Bugental et al, 2002), which may be a useful guide for program directors on how to most effectively incorporate emotion and cognitive capacities into intervention work. Future additional research that assesses the impact of maternal cognitions in parenting skills education interventions would be valuable to improving intervention quality.…”

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The Interface of Maternal Cognitions and Executive Function in Parenting and Child Conduct Problems

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Objective To explore the direct and indirect associations of maternal emotion control, executive functioning, and social cognitions maternal with harsh verbal parenting and child behavior and to do so guided by social information processing theory. Background Studies have demonstrated a relationship between maternal harsh parenting and increased child conduct problems. However, less is known about how maternal emotion and cognitive control capacities and social cognitions intersect with harsh parenting and child behavior. Method Structural equation modeling was used with a convenience sample of 152 mothers from Appalachia who had a child between 3 and 7 years of age. Results Maternal emotion control and executive functioning were both inversely associated with child conduct problems. That is, stronger maternal emotion control was associated with less harsh verbal parenting and lower hostile attribution bias, and higher maternal executive functioning was related to less controlling parenting attitudes. Conclusion The results suggest maternal emotion and cognitive control capacities affect how mothers interact with their children and ultimately child conduct problems. Implications To more effectively reduce harsh verbal parenting and child conduct problems, interventions should help mothers to improve their emotion and cognitive control capacities.

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The Interface of Maternal Cognitions and Executive Function in Parenting and Child Conduct Problems

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“…Parenting seems to be a more powerful causal factor in child maltreatment than distal factors such as the wider social support context. Promoting healthy behaviors during pregnancy and early parenthood (Brayden et al, 1993), establishing social support networks (Bugental et al, 2002), or screening for developmental delay (Duggan et al, 2007) was not found to be effective in preventing child maltreatment. In contrast, significant effects were found for intervention programs offering parent training, such as Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (Swenson et al, 2010) and parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT; Chaffin et al, 2004), although in a more recent meta-analysis of five PCIT studies (Kennedy et al, 2016, see Table 2) the combined effect size of d = .31 was not significant (95% CI -0.00-0.62).…”

Section: Interventions To Prevent or Reduce Child Maltreatment Risksmentioning

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Annual Research Review: Umbrella synthesis of meta‐analyses on child maltreatment antecedents and interventions: differential susceptibility perspective on risk and resilience

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Bakermans‐Kranenburg

Coughlan

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Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Child maltreatment in the family context is a prevalent and pervasive phenomenon in many modern societies. The global perpetration of child abuse and neglect stands in stark contrast to its almost universal condemnation as exemplified in the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child. Much work has been devoted to the task of prevention, yet a grand synthesis of the literature is missing. Focusing on two core elements of prevention, that is, antecedents for maltreatment and the effectiveness of (preventative) interventions, we performed an umbrella review of meta‐analyses published between January 1, 2014, and December 17, 2018. Meta‐analyses were systematically collected, assessed, and integrated following a uniform approach to allow their comparison across domains. From this analysis of thousands of studies including almost 1.5 million participants, the following risk factors were derived: parental experience of maltreatment in his or her own childhood (d = .47), low socioeconomic status of the family (d = .34), dependent and aggressive parental personality (d = .45), intimate partner violence (d = .41), and higher baseline autonomic nervous system activity (d = .24). The effect size for autonomic stress reactivity was not significant (d = −.10). The umbrella review of interventions to prevent or reduce child maltreatment showed modest intervention effectiveness (d = .23 for interventions targeting child abuse potential or families with self‐reported maltreatment and d = .27 for officially reported child maltreatment cases). Despite numerous studies on child maltreatment, some large gaps in our knowledge of antecedents exist. Neurobiological antecedents should receive more research investment. Differential susceptibility theory may shed more light on questions aimed at breaking the intergenerational transmission of maltreatment and on the modest (preventive) intervention effects. In combination with family‐based interaction‐focused interventions, large‐scale socioeconomic experiments such as cash transfer trials and experiments with vouchers to move to a lower‐poverty area might be tested to prevent or reduce child maltreatment. Prevalence, antecedents, and preventive interventions of prenatal maltreatment deserve continuing scientific, clinical, and policy attention.

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“…Moreover, programs could be enhanced by adding supplemental services and increasing the intensity of certain services to respond to the specific needs of targeted families. For instance, Bugental et al (2002) demonstrated the promise of using enhanced training in parenting skills to improve outcomes for families participating in an HFA program.…”

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Serving Highly Vulnerable Families in Home‐Visitation Programs

Azzi-Lessing

2013

Infant Mental Health Journal

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Home-visitation programs for families with young children are growing in popularity in the United States. These programs typically seek to prevent child abuse and neglect and/or promote optimal development for infants, toddlers, and/or preschool-age children. This article focuses on improving the capacity of home-visitation programs to meet the complex needs of highly vulnerable families with young children. Poverty, maternal depression and substance abuse, and domestic violence are noted as factors that place young children at risk for poor outcomes. The challenges of providing home-visitation services to families in which these risk factors are present are discussed. Family engagement, matching services to families' needs, and staff capabilities are highlighted as areas in which improvements can be made to enhance home-visitation programs' capacity to serve highly vulnerable families. Recommendations are given for improving the effectiveness of home-visitation programs in serving these families as well as for addressing policy and research issues related to the further development and evaluation of these programs.

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A cognitive approach to child abuse prevention.

Cited by 41 publications

References 64 publications

The Interface of Maternal Cognitions and Executive Function in Parenting and Child Conduct Problems

The Interface of Maternal Cognitions and Executive Function in Parenting and Child Conduct Problems

Annual Research Review: Umbrella synthesis of meta‐analyses on child maltreatment antecedents and interventions: differential susceptibility perspective on risk and resilience

Serving Highly Vulnerable Families in Home‐Visitation Programs

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