Child Abuse & Neglect

In the current study we were interested in exploring whether fathers’ depression, parenting over-reactivity and hostility, parenting laxness, parenting rejection, and co-parenting might mediate the relationship between child exposure to domestic violence and child internalizing and externalizing difficulties. We investigated each variables as a separate mediator in a series of independent mediation models. Participants were 123 fathers with confirmed histories of DV perpetration and 101 comparison fathers without such histories. The outcome variables of child externalizing and internalizing difficulties were measured using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire – Parent Form (SDQ) (Goodman, 1997). Fathers’ depression and hostility were measured using relevant subscales from the Symptom Checklist – Revised (SCL-90-R) (Derogatis, 1994). Fathers’ over-reactivity and laxness were measured using the Parenting Scale (PS) (Arnold, O’Leary, Wolff, & Acker, 1993). The Parental Acceptance and Rejection Questionnaire – Parent Short Form (PARQ) was used to measure fathers’ self-reported warmth toward and acceptance versus rejection of their child (Rohner, 2005). Co-parenting difficulties were measured using the Parenting Alliance Measure (PAM; Abidin & Konold, 1999), a 20-item self-report questionnaire that assesses co-parenting relationship quality.

This data is covers substantiated cases of Child Abuse or Neglect for the fiscal years 2007-2011, with counts and rates by age group, year, and with trends and measures of repeat abuse. The data are available from the New Mexico Department of Public Health and located here https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=0fc87585ac534173a9bb4a3483004c2f. Additional years were made available to the first author and used for the present analysis.

This is the datafile from all studies with contributing data to the meta-analysis.

Qualitative interview transcripts from 2015 study of commercially sexually exploited youth service providers.

Original data in IBM® SPSS® Statistics 25

Original data in IBM® SPSS® Statistics 25

The aim of this multiple case study report was to assess the level of organizational collaboration between the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) and Child Protective Services (CPS) in Colorado, as well as facilitators and barriers to effective collaboration between these agencies. A multiple case study was conducted, primarily informed by key informant interviews with NFP nurses and nurse supervisors; CPS caseworkers, supervisors, and senior-level workers; and other community partners familiar with NFP or CPS and/or involved in child maltreatment prevention. The findings indicated that organizational collaboration between NFP and CPS varied tremendously within and among sites and the majority of NFP and CPS staff perceived a need to strengthen local organizational collaboration. The report concludes that organizational collaboration has led to successes in effectively serving high-risk clients. It is recommended that the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) and the NFP National Service Office (NSO) consider policy and programmatic changes to facilitate stronger organizational collaboration between the NFP and CPS.

Data set uploaded in spss .sav format