Preventive Impacts of Reliable Family Maltreatment Criteria

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Summary

Air Force child and spouse maltreatment reports were utilized to examine how the implementation of revisions to maltreatment criteria influenced overall rates of substantiation and one-year recidivism. The implementation of revised maltreatment criteria was found to influence both rates of substantiation and recidivism.

Citation
Snarr, J. D., Heyman, R. E, Slep, A. M. S., Malik, J. (2011). Preventive Impacts of Reliable Family Maltreatment Criteria. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 79, 826-833. doi:10.1037/a0025994