PSYC 3690 Chapter Notes -Beck Depression Inventory, Css Box Model, Verbal Behavior
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Title: early intervention for parents at risk of child abuse and. Theorized that agency-based family support services would have a greater impact on high-risk families if they were accompanied by training in child management. Young parents and children who have been identi ed as being at risk of child maltreatment. Indicated because each parent was individually screened in a 3 stage process including an interview with a psychologist, a psychometric evaluation and home observations of parent-child interactions. The mother had to score within at-risk range on the child abuse potential inventory. Secondary because mothers were set risk they aren t necessarily already abusing their children but they show potential. Measures of data collection (what is measured, # of times, and how) The child abuse potential inventory assessed the respondent s attitudes, beliefs and feelings about parenting and was used to provide both a standard measure of high-risk behaviour during screening and an outcome measure of changes in parenting risk.