Exam 16: Effective Program Models for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment

Home visiting models have been ______ for families experiencing or impacted by domestic violence, mental health issues, substance abuse, and dangerous communities.

Moreover, studies examining the social processes within neighborhoods have also found that negative perceptions of ______ and ______ are associated with higher levels of physical and emotional abuse.

A family of four, a single mother and three children under the age of 4, living in an impoverished inner-city neighborhood would have risk factors at the ______ level.

The Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) program is which type of intervention?

Which of the following is NOT a parent education program discussed by the authors?

Physical, sexual, and verbal abuse relate to the commission of a behavior, while ______ relates to the omission of appropriate caregiving practices, such as adequate child supervision.

Ricky and Jane are parents to a 3-year-old and a newborn infant.Jane was meeting with a public health nurse who suggested Jane get her 3-year-old into the local Head Start program.The nurse is suggesting which type of intervention?

______ is an evidence-based community healthcare program through which first-time mothers (particularly younger mothers from low socioeconomic backgrounds) can receive in-home care and support from nurses.

______ commonly include meeting with the parent to understand any concerns they may have, assessing the parent and child for various challenges (e.g., postpartum depression of mothers or child developmental concerns), and assisting with parent-child interactions.

Summarize community-level interventions.Give some examples of programs and their components as outlined by the authors.

Profiles of child maltreatment suggest risk and protective factors ______ among the various types (i.e., physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect, etc.).

Dani and Jose are 6-year-old twins of a single mother, Maria, an undocumented immigrant who is working for cash at a rate less than the federal minimum wage.Maria's neighbor called child services after Dani and Jose had been to her house for the third time that week asking for food.Dani and Jose were determined to be undernourished.A case was opened on their family for ______.

______ program has been extensively studied and found to have positive outcomes, such as reported healthier family functioning than those in control groups receiving general mental health services.

Merritt and Klein (2015) have found ______ to be particularly beneficial as a protective resource to promote positive child development (e.g., language development) and school readiness for maltreated children, particularly those subjected to supervisory neglect.

Stith and colleagues' study found that parent anger and hyperreactivity had a large effect on both ______ and ______.

Discuss the importance of risk and protective factors in prevention.

About ______ of the substantiated child maltreatment cases were victims of neglect.

In 2014, ______ children were deemed to have been victims of abuse or neglect.

______ refers to a feeling of mutual trust and shared norms among neighbors, while social disorder refers to a measure of an individual's perception of disorder within their neighborhood.

Summarize home-based prevention and intervention programs.Give some examples of what is likely to occur in such programming.Name at least one specific program discussed in the text.