Middle Childhood (5-12 years)

Preventive Impacts of Reliable Family Maltreatment Criteria

Objective: The U.S. Air Force recently implemented system-wide changes that both (a) clarified the criteria used to determine when family maltreatment has occurred and (b) made the process by which these decisions are made more consistent.

2011
Snarr, J. D.
Heyman, R. E
Slep, A. M. S.
Malik, J.

Preventive Impacts of Reliable Family Maltreatment Criteria

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.

2011
Snarr, J. D.
Heyman, R. E
Slep, A. M. S.
Malik, J.

Suspected Child and Spouse Maltreatment Referral Sources: Who Reports Child and Spouse Maltreatment to the Air Force Family Advocacy Program?

The present study describes the sources of Air Force (AF) Family Advocacy Program referrals (N = = 42,389) for child and spouse maltreatment between 2000 and 2004. Sources of referrals were stable over time, with military sources accounting for the majority of both child and spouse referrals.

2008
Linkh, D. J.
Besetsny, L. K.
Collins, P. S.
Thomsen, C. J.
Rabenhorst, M. M.
Rosenbaum, A.
Milner, J. S.

Suspected Child and Spouse Maltreatment Referral Sources: Who Reports Child and Spouse Maltreatment to the Air Force Family Advocacy Program?

Suspected child and spouse maltreatment reports were evaluated to determine referral source for Air Force families. Suspected Air Force child maltreatment reports were then compared to U.S. national child maltreatment data to explore how referral source differed among the samples.

2008
Linkh, D. J.
Besetsny, L. K.
Collins, P. S.
Thomsen, C. J.
Rabenhorst, M. M.
Rosenbaum, A.
Milner, J. S.