Assessing physical child abuse risk: The child abuse potential inventory

Linking childhood sexual abuse and abusive parenting: the mediating role of maternal anger

“…To date, however, child sexual abuse has been overlooked as a possible developmental risk factor for physically abusive parenting. In our sample, mothers who reported a history of CSA scored significantly higher on the abuse potential scale of the CAPI, in a range that may be indicative of abusive parenting (Milner, 1986). In addition, consistent with a substantial body of past research, survivors in the present study also reported poorer personal adjustment than did non-abused mothers, as measured by the Global Severity Index and Hostility subscale of the Brief Symptom Inventory.…”

“…The Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI; Milner, 1986) is a standardized and widely used self-report measure of attitudes and behavior that are associated with child maltreatment. The psychometric properties of the CAPI have been widely investigated and well established (see Milner, 1994, for a review).…”

“…The Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI; Milner, 1986) is a standardized and widely used self-report measure of attitudes and behavior that are associated with child maltreatment. The psychometric properties of the CAPI have been widely investigated and well established (see Milner, 1994, for a review). In particular, a wealth of evidence has accumulated supporting the relationship between the 77-item Abuse score and numerous risk factors for child abuse, and for its discriminative validity with respect to distinguishing abusive from nonabusive parents.…”

“…The CAPI Abuse score is used here as a continuous measure of maltreatment potential. In accordance with the manual for the CAPI (Milner, 1986), cases with a positive Faking Good index and an Abuse Potential score that fell below the clinical cutoff of 166 were considered uninterpretable. Pairwise deletion of invalid CAPI scores reduced the no-CSA group by 38%, and the CSA group by 24%, for any analyses involving the CAPL Beyond this global indicator of the propensity for child maltreatment, we examined more specific indices of parental expectations, maternal punitiveness, and nurturance.…”

Parenting Programs to Prevent Corporal Punishment: A Systematic Review

“…A detailed description of the instruments used in each study to evaluate program effects is beyond the scope of this revision, but, in general, the number of measures used in each program ranged from four (Santos & Williams, 2008) to eight (Chaffin et al, 2004). The most commonly used instruments were the following: (1) The Child Behavior Checklist-CBCL (Achenbach & Edelbrock, 1991) used in six of nine studies reviewed; (2) The Child Potential Inventory-CAP (Milner, 1994), used in four studies; and (3) The Beck Depression Inventory-BDI (Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996); The Conflict Tactics Scale-CTS (Straus, Hamby, Finkelhor, Moore, & Runyan, 1998); and The Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children-TSCC (Briere, 1996), used in three studies each. As the CBCL was the most used measure, Table 2 includes the identified values of the effect size of the intervention (Cohen d) from this instrument´s scores.…”