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… Discourses to New Practice Approaches in Domestic Violence and Child Protective Services 2008 Authors Friend, Colleen … Shlonsky, Aron Lambert, Liz Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 30, Issue 6, pp. 689-698 From Evolving … risk of maltreatment due to domestic violence. The authors review the legislation driving these systems, using examples … This article looks at the ways that two different systems, the child welfare system and the domestic violence system, have framed the complexities arising from their overlapping mandates when children are at risk of maltreatment due to domestic violence. The authors review the legislation driving these systems, using examples from both the United States (Minnesota) and Canada (Ontario). They…

… Nations/Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (FN/CIS-2019 )  entitled " Denouncing The … Nations/Canadian Incidence Study Of Reported Child Abuse And Neglect-2019 " is a study of child welfare investigations involving First Nations and non-Indigenous … The First Nations/Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (FN/CIS-2019) entitled "Denouncing The Continued Overrepresentation Of First Nations Children In Canadian Child Welfare: Findings From The First Nations/Canadian Incidence Study Of Reported Child Abuse And Neglect-2019" is a study of child welfare investigations involving First Nations and non-Indigenous children…

… differential association of socioeconomic vulnerabilities and neglect-related child protection involvement across … J. D. Trocmé, N. Bywaters, P. Children and Youth Services Review  The differential association of socioeconomic … geographies, suggesting that increased vulnerability to investigation for neglect is related to a sparse geographic … Abstract Background/Purpose This paper explores the use of social geographic data and multilevel latent modeling to make initial predictions on geographic variation in child protection involvement for reasons of neglect, resulting in novel findings regarding the relationship between poverty and neglect in low-density geographies in the province of Quebec, Canada. Method This study used…

… Manufacturing Ghost Fathers: The Paradox of Father Presence and Absence in Child Welfare 2009 Authors Brown, Leslie … in child protection services. This study includes a review of 116 randomly selected child protection files from … Analyses of policies, practices, literature, and case reviews demonstrates the pervasiveness of the irrelevance of … This study explores the invisibility of fathers in the child welfare system in Canada. The authors look at child welfare policies which appear to promote and reinforce the “uninvolved” father, both in child maltreatment but also in engagement and inclusion in child protection services. This study includes a review of 116 randomly selected child protection files from a child protection agency in a…

… Cognition, Emotion, and Neurobiological Development: Mediating the Relation Between Maltreatment and Aggression 2007 Authors Lee, Vivien Hoaken, Peter Child … Relation Between Maltreatment and Aggression This article reviews the link between maltreatment and aggression, … This article reviews the link between maltreatment and aggression, positing that maltreatment increases the risk of aggression through its impact on cognitive and emotional processing, with persistent effects because of impacts on the child’s developing neurobiology.

Background and objective: More than 60 % of people exposed to sex trafficking access hospital emergency departments (ED), making the ED a critical setting for child sex trafficking identification. Children exposed to sex trafficking (CEST) do not always recognize that they are being exploited. With many ED leaders confirming that there are no formal processes or assessment tools to screen for…

… Families (MST-BSF): Substance misuse, child neglect, and parenting outcomes from an 18-month randomized effectiveness trial Journal article … 1 … en … … Families (MST-BSF): Substance misuse, child neglect, and parenting outcomes from an 18-month randomized … Background: Parental substance misuse impacts millions of children globally and is a major determinant of repeat maltreatment and out-of-home placement. There is little published research on family-based, comprehensive treatment models that simultaneously address parental substance misuse and child maltreatment.Objective: This study reports outcomes from a randomized clinical trial examining the…

… the Attachment Video-feedback Intervention (AVI) on parents and children at risk of maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal article … 1 … en … Effects of the Attachment Video-feedback Intervention (AVI) on parents and children at risk of maltreatment during the COVID-19 … BackgroundThe global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in situations of risk of child abuse and neglect. ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to examine whether the Attachment Video-feedback Intervention (AVI) program can improve protective factors (decrease parental stress and household chaos, increase parent-child emotional availability and parental…

… Association between child welfare reporting rates and the developmental vulnerability of kindergarten children … 1 … en … Association between child welfare reporting rates and the developmental vulnerability of kindergarten children … AbstractBackgroundIn Canada, more than one in four children are considered vulnerable in at least one domain of development when they enter kindergarten. Recent studies have suggested that this ratio is higher among those who were previously maltreated. However, little is known about this associations at the neighborhood level, although it may be an interesting way to identify risk areas and…

… Child protective services during COVID-19 and doubly marginalized children: International perspectives … … 1 … en … Child protective services during COVID-19 and doubly marginalized children: International perspectives … BackgroundAlongside deficits in children's wellbeing, the COVID-19 pandemic has created an elevated risk for child maltreatment and challenges for child protective services worldwide. Therefore, some children might be doubly marginalized, as prior inequalities become exacerbated and new risk factors arise.ObjectiveTo provide initial insight into international…