The Child Maltreatment Prevention Landscape: Where Are We Now, and Where Should We Go?

Harden, Brenda Jones; Simons, Cassandra; Johnson‐Motoyama, Michelle; Barth, Richard P.

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“…The timing, sequence, and duration of foster care is critical to how we attach meaning to the experience. That so many spend so little time in care draws attention to questions that consider the need for placement in the first place (see articles by Jones Harden et al, Roygardner et al, Feely et al, and Slack and Berger, this volume).…”

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Foster Care in a Life Course Perspective

Wulczyn¹

2020

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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To understand what placement outside of one’s home means to the young people involved, we must understand foster care from a life course perspective. I analyze young people’s experiences in foster care from this perspective, accounting for when foster care happens, how long it lasts, and what happens when foster care placements end. I show that the population of children coming into foster care is younger and less urban than it was 20 years ago. I also show reliable measures of exposure to foster care over the life course. Children who enter care early in life are the children who spend the largest proportion of their childhood in foster care—a fact that rarely weighs on the policymaking process. We know very little about state and local variation in foster care placement rates, not to mention the influence of social services, the courts, foster parents, and caseworkers over foster children, so I close by arguing investment in research should be a clear policy priority.

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Foster Care in a Life Course Perspective

Wulczyn¹

2020

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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“…The MMF is complementary to current prevention approaches and models. A more comprehensive overview of maltreatment prevention frameworks can be found in the literature, for example by Jones Harden and colleagues [39], but two prominent perspectives are a strategy of evidence-based programs and of applying a public health approach [39][40][41]. The program strategy results in an array of specific evidence-based interventions that address different risk factors for child maltreatment, such as parenting behaviors.…”

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Changed for the Better: The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors Framework

Feely

2022

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Rates of child maltreatment in the U.S. have been relatively stagnant since the 1990s. This lack of progress suggests that prevention efforts, which have primarily focused on individual behaviors, have been unsuccessful. Building on existing research, this conceptual paper identifies the need to refocus prevention efforts on changeable and causal risk factors. The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors (MMF), a new framework to classify risk factors for maltreatment, is introduced. Use of the MMF in social work education and child protective services work could increase the understanding of macro factors in child maltreatment and the possibilities of policy change and community organizing in maltreatment prevention.

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“…Tertiary prevention aims to prevent the recurrence of maltreatment by reducing the harms associated with initial victimization. 27 Child-, caregiver-, and perpetrator-focused strategies are needed to effectively prevent child sexual abuse and its recurrence. Research suggests that trauma-focused psychotherapies, including trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, help improve the negative psychological effects and mental health symptoms associated with childhood sexual abuse.…”

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Child Sexual Abuse Recurrence: A Narrative Review

Wildfeuer

Kobulsky

Reyes

2021

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Child sexual abuse recurrence can have a detrimental and devastating effect on victims. Less is known, however, about the risk and protective factors associated with child sexual abuse recurrence. In order to better understand these risk and protective factors, a narrative review was conducted of the current literature. Academic databases, cited references, and reference lists were searched for peer-reviewed research that focused on sexual abuse recurrence prior to age 18 years. The risk and protective factors identified in the literature were organized into four a priori categories based on an ecological systems framework: child, characteristics of the maltreatment, family, and community/social systems. Examples of risk factors at each level were child mental health concerns (child), the perpetrator being the mother’s significant other (characteristics of the maltreatment), parental history of sexual abuse (family), and active or prior child welfare involvement (community/social systems). Only two protective factors were identified, both regarding the family: family social support and a parent believing the child’s report of the initial victimization. There were mixed or inconclusive findings for several factors. Overall, the review indicates that tertiary prevention, including child-, caregiver-, and perpetrator-focused strategies, should be employed to mitigate the risk factors and enhance the protective factors for child sexual abuse recurrence. Further research is needed to address protective factors and community/social systems factors and could, building on this narrative review, involve a systematic review of the child sexual abuse recurrence literature.

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The Child Maltreatment Prevention Landscape: Where Are We Now, and Where Should We Go?

Cited by 28 publications

References 84 publications

Foster Care in a Life Course Perspective

Foster Care in a Life Course Perspective

Changed for the Better: The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors Framework

Child Sexual Abuse Recurrence: A Narrative Review

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