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Journal Issue: Preventing Child Maltreatment Volume 19 Number 2 Fall 2009

Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect with Parent Training: Evidence and Opportunities
Authors: Richard P. Barth

Endnotes

  1. Joseph Semidei, Laura F. Radel, and Catherine Nolan, “Substance Abuse and Child Welfare: Clear Linkages and Promising Responses,” Child Welfare 80 (2001): 109–28.
  2. Robert L. Pierce and Lois H. Pierce, “Analysis of Sexual Abuse Hotline Reports,” Child Abuse and Neglect 9 (1985): 37–45.
  3. Bridgett A. Besinger and others, “Caregiver Substance Abuse among Maltreated Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care,” Child Welfare 78 (1999): 221–39.
  4. Nancy K. Young, Sydney L. Gardner, and Kimberly Dennis, Responding to Alcohol and Other Drug Problems in Child Welfare: Weaving Together Practice and Policy (Washington: CWLA Press, 1998).
  5. Kelly Kelleher and others, “Alcohol and Drug Disorders among Physically Abusive and Neglectful Parents in a Community-Based Sample,” American Journal of Public Health 84 (1994): 1586–90.
  6. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Study of Child Maltreatment in Alcohol Abusing Families (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993).
  7. Claire Gibbons, Richard Barth, and Sandra L. Martin, “Prevalence of Substance Abuse among In-Home Caregivers in a U.S. Child Welfare Population: Caregiver vs. Child Welfare Worker Report,” Child Abuse & Neglect (forthcoming).
  8. Ibid.
  9. Stephen Magura and Alexandre B. Laudet, “Parental Substance Abuse and Child Maltreatment: Review and Implications for Intervention,” Children and Youth Services Review 3 (1996): 193–220.
  10. Gibbons, Barth, and Martin, “Prevalence of Substance Abuse” (see note 7).
  11. Richard P. Barth, “Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Services: Research Updates and Needs,” paper presented at the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Researcher’s Forum, Washington, December 10, 2003.
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  24. Cecilia Casanueva and others, “Quality of Maternal Parenting among Intimate-Partner Violence Victims Involved with the Child Welfare System,” Journal of Family Violence 23, no. 6 (2008): 413–27. Parenting skills were measured by the HOME-SF (this is a short form of the HOME Inventory, a well-known standardized instrument measuring the home environment).
  25. DeGarmo, Patterson, and Forgatch, “How Do Outcomes in a Specified Parent Training Intervention Maintain or Wane over Time?” (see note 22).
  26. Ibid.
  27. David Fanshel, “Foster Care as a 2-Tiered System,” Children & Youth Services Review 14 (1992): 49–60.
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  56. Ibid.
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