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Week ending 11 May 2012
| | | Bullying victimisation and risk of self harm in early adolescence: longitudinal cohort study. |
| | Examines the relationship between being bullied and self harm. Uses a representative sample of 1116 twin pairs from the UK born in 1994-95 to assess relative risks of self harming behaviour in the six months before their 12th birthday. Finds that children who had been bullied were more likely to self-harm. Also identifies other factors which made bullied children more likely to self harm, including: family history of attempted/completed suicide, mental health problems, and a history of physical abuse by an adult. |
| | Publication Details: | British Medical Journal, Issue 344, 2012 pp [1-9] |
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| | Authors: | Fisher, Helen L., et al. |
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| | | Youth victimization: school climate or deviant lifestyles? |
| | Uses school climate theory (which examines physical, social and organisational elements of the school) to analyse the links between victims and offenders in the 11th grade in high schools in Delaware. The research found the social cohesion of schools reduced serious violent victimisation, but that school climate did not affect the relationship between offending and victimisation. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume 27 Issue 3, 2012 pp 431-452 |
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| | Authors: | Zaykowski, Heather, and Gunter, Whitney |
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| | | Are our frontline clinicians equipped with the ability and confidence to address child abuse and neglect? |
| | Reports on a survey of medical practitioners in Sydney, New South Wales, which looked at the role of confidence in reporting child abuse and found significant differences in confidence and practice in clinical workers in primary care and hospital emergency departments. Suggests that this may be explained by differences in training and that targeted and relevant training should be provided to all frontline clinical workers, especially general practitioners (GPs). Includes questionnaire. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse Review Volume 21 Issue 2, 2012 pp 114-130 |
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| | Authors: | Raman, Shanti, and Holdgate, Anna, and Torrens, Rebecca |
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| | | Child maltreatment histories among female inmates reporting inmate on inmate sexual victimization in prison: the mediating role of emotion dysregulation. |
| | Reports on a study of female prisoners in the American Midwest, which looked at the link between all types of abuse in childhood and sexual victimisation in prison. Although few associations between child abuse and forced sexual experiences in prison were found, emotional dysregulation was found to mediate links between childhood abuse and coerced sexual experiences in prison. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume 27 Issue 3, 2012 pp 492-512 |
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| | Authors: | Walsh, Kate, et al. |
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| | | Clinician knowledge and utilization of empirically-supported treatments for maltreated children. |
| | Examines the findings of a US survey into the recognition of empirically-supported treatments (ESTs) for abused children and their use by those working with them in clinical settings. Barriers to the spread of ESTs were identified as lack of time and financial resources, which limit training in evidence-based practice. Clinicians were not generally able to identify interventions supported by research and the development of cost-effective training and support (including web-based options) and the modification of training courses may improve awareness of ESTs. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Maltreatment Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 11-21 |
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| | Authors: | Allen, Brian, and Gharagozloo, Laadan, and Johnson, Jennifer C. |
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| | | Developing and implementing and appreciative 'quality of care' approach to child neglect practice. |
| | Reports on an evaluation of the Graded Care Profile (GCP) tool for assessment of child neglect, in the Blackburn with Darwen local authority. Training was carried out using a 'quality of care' toolkit and the evaluation (using the Appreciative Inquiry approach) ran alongside the delivery of the toolkit training sessions, to explore existing practice and changes which occurred during practice. The research found that appreciative practice and the GCP both shifted focus from a review of neglect to a consideration of care, and that families found the tool helpful in understanding professional concerns and monitoring their own progress. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse Review Volume 21 Issue 2, 2012 pp 81-98 |
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| | Authors: | Carter, Bernie |
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| | | The role of adolescent physical abuse in adult intimate partner violence. |
| | Longitudinal study looking at abuse history as a risk factor in predicting intimate partner violence. Explores whether a sample of young adults (23 to 31 years) who were physically abused as adolescents, were more likely to be physically and verbally aggressive against their partners compared to non-abused young adults. Results showed that as adults, participants with abuse histories had significantly higher rates of intimate partner physical violence and verbal aggression compared to participants without a history of abuse. Adults with histories of physical abuse were twice as likely to be physically violent and almost six times more likely to be verbally aggressive to their partners. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume 27 Issue 3, 2012 pp 3773-3789 |
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| | Authors: | Sunday, Suzanne, et al. |
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| | | Preparing paediatricians for court: evaluation of a court skills training programme |
| | Evaluates a two-day training programme for final year paediatric registrars and newly appointed consultant paediatricians which was developed by lawyers and paediatricians, drawing on an established course run by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and local expertise. The programme was delivered in a court setting and led to improved confidence in specific skills. Suggests the need for further evaluation involving objective assessment of court reports and performance in court, using peer review and supervision. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse Review Volume 21 Issue 2, 2012 pp 131-140 |
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Child and family services |
| | | Child welfare caseworkers as service brokers for youth in foster care: findings from Project Focus. |
| | Looks at the role of the broker or gateway provider of services in the provision of evidence-based treatments to children in care in the United States. Examines caseworker-level outcomes of Project Focus, a caseworker training and consultation model which aims to improve behavioural and emotional outcomes for children in care. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Maltreatment Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 22-31 |
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| | Authors: | Dorsey, Shannon, et al. |
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| | | Happier beginnings. |
| | Looks at Family Action's four "befriender" projects which aim to support new mothers and reduce feelings of being overwhelmed and/or isolated. The programme targets pregnant women or new mothers suffering from depression or believed to be at risk of depression. Befrienders are volunteers who regularly visit the family until the child's first birthday providing: practical help and advice looking after the baby; help to network with other local mothers and access relevant support services; and a listening ear. A support group is also offered to help women cope with perinatal depression. Discusses the interim evaluation of the projects. |
| | Publication Details: | Children and Young People Now, 17 April 2012 pp 22-23 |
| | Authors: | Rogers, Emily |
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| | | Implementation of AF-CBT by community practitioners serving child welfare and mental health: a randomized trial. |
| | Reports on large-scale randomised clinical trial to evaluate a training programme for community practitioners in an evidence-based treatment for family conflict, including child physical abuse, called Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Maltreatment Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 32-46 |
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| | Authors: | Kolko, David J., et al. |
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| | | Initial implementation indicators from a statewide rollout of SafeCare within a child welfare system. |
| | Presents initial findings from a statewide implementation of SafeCare (an evidence-based practice programme for parent training). Workshop indicators suggested high performance during training and in-field fidelity scores were excellent, but overall levels of implementation were low with few providers conducting any SafeCare sessions and fewer reaching certification. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Maltreatment Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 96-101 |
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| | Authors: | Whitaker, Daniel J., et al. |
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| | | Local teams join forces to close the gaps in children's services. |
| | Presents a case study of Westminster City Council's locality teams, local teams set up to improve services for vulnerable children and families and reduce the number of children going into care. The teams bring together professionals including social workers, education welfare officers, health visitors, parenting workers, youth workers and children's centre staff with the aim of identifying children at risk as early as possible. Services offered by the teams include: outreach work, intensive parenting support, monitoring of child protection plans and work with gangs. Efforts are being made to strengthen links with the voluntary and community sector. The advent of the locality teams has coincided with fewer children going into care and a reduction in care proceedings. |
| | Publication Details: | Children and Young People Now, 17 April 2012 pp 32-33 |
| | Corporate Authors: | Children and Young People Now |
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| | | Therapists' attitudes toward evidence-based practice and implementation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. |
| | Examines the association between community-based therapists' attitudes toward evidence-based practices and their use of phone consultations and satisfaction with consultation. Therapists were using the Parent-child Interaction Therapy parent training intervention which is designed to reduce child behaviour problems in pre-school children. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Maltreatment Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 47-55 |
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| | Authors: | Nelson, Mardell, et al. |
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| | | Utilization and implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for the treatment of maltreated children. |
| | Describes the findings of a survey into mental health clinicians' training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, in child advocacy centres in the United States. 78% of the sample were trained in and used TF-CBT, but only 66% of those trained (58% of the total) reported being likely to use each component. Teaching relaxation skills and psychoeducation were the most preferred components, and teaching caregiver child behaviour management skills, developing a trauma narrative and cognitive restructuring were less preferred. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Maltreatment Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 80-85 |
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| | Authors: | Allen, Brian, and Johnson, Jennifer C. |
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Child health, development and welfare |
| | | Betrayal trauma: associations with psychological and physical symptoms in young adults. |
| | Reports on a study comparing the effects of trauma related to betrayal (ie caused by someone close) versus other types of trauma in the pasts of a group of undergraduates, which found physical and mental health problems were related to a greater extent to 'betrayal trauma'. High betrayal trauma predicted alexithymia, anxiety, depression, dissociation, physical health complaints and sickness days, with traumatic stress symptoms mediating the association between betrayal trauma and physical health complaints. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume 27 Issue 3, 2012 pp 547-567 |
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| | Authors: | Goldsmith, Rachel E.,et al. |
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| | | Childhood adversities increase the risk of psychosis: a meta-analysis of patient-control, prospective- and cross-sectional cohort studies. |
| | A meta-analysis examining the association between childhood adversity and trauma (sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional/psychological abuse, neglect, parental death, and bullying) and psychosis outcome, based on research published from January 1980 through to November 2011. Findings indicated that childhood adversity is strongly associated with increased risk for psychosis. [Epub ahead of print]. |
| | Publication Details: | Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2012 pp 1-11 |
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| | Authors: | Varese, Filippo, et al. |
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| | | Diagnostic disarray. |
| | Discusses the American Psychiatric Association's proposed revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a popular tool in the USA and the UK used in the diagnosis of mental health conditions. Argues that revisions have "thrown the mental health world into open conflict" and explores some of the disagreements over the validity of medical diagnoses of mental illnesses, such as the argument that the DSM medicalises human distress and difference, without the scientific and biological evidence to support it. |
| | Publication Details: | Therapy Today Volume 23 Issue 3, 2012 |
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| | Authors: | Jackson, Catherine |
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| | | Implementation science and child maltreatment. |
| | Considers the advances in implementation science in the field of child protection relating to evidence-based practice, including emphasizing external validity, the role of context in implementation success, knowledge of implementation strategies, assessing outcomes (including fidelity, adoption and sustainability), and methodological innovations. Outlines the challenges which remain. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Maltreatment Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 107-112 |
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| | Authors: | Proctor, Enola |
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| | | Special issue of child maltreatment on implementation: some key developments in evidence-based models for the treatment of child maltreatment. |
| | Provides an overview of developments in the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) in child protection, looking at the barriers to organisational change and the factors which influence successful uptake of EBP. Discusses a road map to implementation, including building assessment and referral pathways, implementation management, training, supervision and fidelity monitoring. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Maltreatment Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 102-106 |
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| | Authors: | Wilson, Charles A. |
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| | | The development of an auditing tool to support the delivery of inter-professional training within the field of safeguarding children. |
| | Looks at the 'Make a Difference' tool which was developed by the PIAT(Promoting Inter-Agency Training) project to support review and auditing of inter-agency training in child protection. The review tool is divided into three areas: provision, participation and practice systems and may be used by LSCBs in England and Wales, and Child Protection Committees in Scotland, to illustrate key areas of development and assist in planning future training. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse Review Volume 21 Issue 2, 2012 pp 141-150 |
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| | Authors: | Dugdale, Daryl, and Wells, Carol |
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Disability and special needs |
| | | Disabled children and their families: a decade of policy change. |
| | Reviews legislation and policy changes in the UK in relation to disabled children and their families. Discusses attempts to transform the ways disabled children are perceived and the rights accorded to them. Outlines the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled persons, specific UK policy initiatives (including Aiming High for Disabled Children), and debates on universal and specialist provisions. The association between poverty, deprivation and child disability is identified as a major challenge for social policy. |
| | Publication Details: | Children and Society Volume 26 Issue 3, 2012 pp 223-233 |
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| | Authors: | Read, Janet, and Blackburn, Clare, and Spencer, Nick |
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| | | Disabled children's voices: the nature and role of future empirical enquiry. |
| | Draws together some key themes from five seminars (2010-2011) focused on research concerning the lives of disabled children and young people. Based on the contributions at these seminars, presents a schema to guide future research with disabled children. It considers both the context in which research is conducted and the nature of investigations. The schema places particular emphasis on research influencing policy and practice. Concludes that to avoid or to neglect listening to the voice of disabled children is to discriminate and disempower them but much needs to be done to improve communication, research methods must be better integrated and theoretical frameworks need to be more coherent. |
| | Publication Details: | Children and Society Volume 26 Issue 3, 2012 pp 251-261 |
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| | Authors: | Carpenter, John, and McConkey, Roy |
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| | | Sixth sense: the disabled children and young people's participation project. |
| | Reports on the Disabled Children and Young People's Participation Project (DCYPPP) which was established by Barnardo's (Northern Ireland) in 2002 to explore ways of involving children and young people with disabilities in decision-making processes within Children's Services. Describes how the project evolved and the factors that contributed to its success. |
| | Publication Details: | Children and Society Volume 26 Issue 3, 2012 pp 262-267 |
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| | Authors: | Murray, Rosemary |
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| | | Working on well-being: researchers' experiences of a participative approach to understanding the subjective well-being of disabled young people. |
| | Explores the well-being of disabled young people, reporting on the views and experiences of a group of disabled young people (learning disabilities and/or physical impairments) over a 12 month period. Describes methodological experiences and in particular strategies which facilitated accessing young people's views. Discusses challenges and dilemmas in taking a participative approach to research. |
| | Publication Details: | Children and Society Volume 26 Issue 3, 2012 pp 234-240 |
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| | Authors: | Beresford, Bryony |
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| | | Predictors of preschoolers' appraisals of conflict in families experiencing intimate partner violence. |
| | Examines the attitudes of pre-school children and mothers in families experiencing violence. The research found that girls reported higher levels of self blame, but that children's cognitive appraisals of threat did not vary by age or ethnicity. Reports of violence by both mothers and children were associated with children's appraisals of threat. Suggests interventions for young children might target their cognitive appraisals of conflict. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume 27 Issue 3, 2012 pp 568-586 |
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| | Authors: | Miller, Laura E., et al. |
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| | | Facilitators and barriers to implementation of an evidence-based parenting intervention to prevent child maltreatment: the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program. |
| | Reports on follow-up structured interviews carried out with 174 service providers, 2 years after professional in-service training in the delivery of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program. Highlights the importance of a systems-contextual perspective on implementation and identifies those provider- and organisation-level characteristics which predicted programme use. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Maltreatment Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 8-95 |
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| | Authors: | Shapiro, Cheri J., and Prinz, Ronald J., and Sanders, Matthew R. |
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| | | Online child sexual abuse: grooming, policing and child protection in a multi-media world. |
| | Explores online child sexual abuse, linking theory, research and practice in the field of policing, social policy, victimology and criminology. Based on ethnographic research conducted with the police and a specialist paedophile unit (based in London) looks at patterns and characteristics of online grooming and challenges and techniques in policing. Aims to add to our understanding and knowledge of the problem of online child sexual abuse, the way in which children are targeted, and how sex offenders targeting children are, and might be, policed in the multi-media world. Chapters include: young people's internet use; the UK legal framework; collaborative efforts to protect children from online sexual abuse (including the work of CEOP, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre); and observing sex offenders' online interaction and assessing risk. Includes case studies. |
| | Publication Details: | Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2012 pp 172 |
| | ISBN: | 9780415618212 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLJ JAT SME |
| | Authors: | Martellozzo, Elena |
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| | | Can x-rays determine age? |
| | Examines legal and ethical concerns relating to the UK Border Agency's plans to use x-rays as a means of determining the age of young asylum seekers. An asylum seeker's age is of a great significance as children receive higher levels of support and protection in the asylum process than adults. |
| | Publication Details: | Children and Young People Now, 17 April 2012 pp 29 |
| | Authors: | Dorling, Kamena |
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| | | Provider cultural competency, client satisfaction, and engagement in home-based programs to treat child abuse and neglect. |
| | Reports on a study into client satisfaction in service provision comparing the SafeCare programme to Services as Usual. Looks at the effects of the service type and the client's perception of the provider's cultural competency on engagement, goal attainment and satisfaction. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Maltreatment Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 56-66 |
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| | Authors: | Damashek, Amy, and Bard, David, and Hecht, Debra |
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| | | Violence, schools and dropping out: racial and ethnic disparities in the educational consequence of student victimization. |
| | US study exploring the educational consequences of exposure to violence and victimisation at school as experienced by racial and ethnic minority students. Based on data from a longitudinal study from 2002. Results indicated that Black/African Americans and Latino American students who were victimised at school were at a higher risk of dropping out. Discusses the implications of racial and ethnic disparities in the relationship between victimisation and dropping out within the US school system. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume 27 Issue 3, 2012 pp 3753-3772 |
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| | Authors: | Peguero, Anthony |
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| | | Female sexual offenders: five Italian case studies. |
| | Analysis of the clinical files of five female sex offenders held in Italian prisons in order to ascertain similarities and differences and to compare against existing sex offender typologies. Concludes current sex offender typologies do not adequately cover the full spectrum of female perpetrated child sexual abuse, and that female sex offenders may fall into more than one current typology model. Suggests more research is needed to enable a more appropriate classification of female sex offenders. |
| | Publication Details: | Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume 17 Issue 3, 2012 pp 180-187 |
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| | Authors: | Grattagliano, Ignazio, et al. |
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| | | The empathy index: an evaluation of the psychometric properties of a new empathy measure for sex offenders. |
| | Analyses the psychometric properties, including validity and reliability, of the Empathy Index (EI), an instrument designed to measure empathy deficits in sex offenders. The EI was tested with a sample of 158 sex offenders in North Carolina prisons. An exploratory factor analysis yielded 3 subscales: social aggression; instrumental (proactive) aggression; and justification. Concludes that the EI shows promising construct and concurrent validity as well as strong internal reliability. Implications for future research and practice are discussed. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume 27 Issue 3, 2012 pp 3790-3814 |
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| | Authors: | Grady, Melissa D., and Rose, Roderick A. |
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| | | Mixed methods for implementation research: application to evidence-based practice implementation and staff turnover in community-based organizations providing child welfare services. |
| | Describes the process of using mixed methods in research into the implementation of an evidence-based practice programme, in the Oklahoma Children's Service system (OCS), a community-based home-visiting family preservation and reunification service. The study looked at the implementation of SafeCare, an evidence-based practice programme to reduce child neglect, comparing it with Service as Usual (SAU), and covered both quantitative measures such as turnover intentions and staff turnover, and qualitative data. The impact of implementation and fidelity monitoring was included, and supportive consultation to support fidelity was found to be associated with greater staff retention. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Maltreatment Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 67-79 |
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| | Authors: | Aarons, Gregory A., et al. |
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| | | Do parents blame or doubt their child more when sexually abused by adolescents versus adults? |
| | Explores the levels of parental blame and doubt in cases where children have been sexually abused by adolescents and compares this with abuse by adults. The research, carried out in the United States, found that parental blame increased with age, where the child was black, non-Hispanic, and where the suspected abuser was an adolescent. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume 27 Issue 3, 2012 pp 453-470 |
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| | Authors: | Walsh, Wendy A., and Cross, Theodore P., and Jones, Lisa M. |
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