PARENT/CHILD PHYSICAL ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAM

描述（改编自申请人摘要）： 父母养育子女仍然是我国的一个主要社会问题。 国家 然而，相对而言， 对虐待身体的家庭采取经验性的处理办法。 一 对现有文献的仔细研究表明， 的特点是高比率的负面互动，低比率的 积极的互动，以及有限/无效的父母管教 战略布局 相反，据报告，受到身体虐待的儿童 攻击性、挑衅性、不顺从性和对父母指导的抵抗性。 利用社会学习框架，这一建议认为，虐待 父母和他们的孩子陷入了一个消极的强制循环， 这是它们之间许多互动的特征。 有时，这种循环可能会升级 到了身体虐待的地步 本提案描述了父/子 互动培训（PCIT）作为一种干预措施， 经常在身体虐待的父母和孩子中发现的缺陷。 PCIT是 特别适用于身体虐待的父母-孩子，因为它 已经显示出对相似的群体是高度有效的（即， 反对，违抗儿童），它结合了父母和 孩子，它提供了一种改变内部互动模式的方法。 虐待关系，它提供了一种直接减少负面影响的方法， 影响和控制-在促进的同时（即，教学，教练）更大 积极的情感和纪律策略。 因此，本研究拟以48对亲子对为样本 （母亲及其子女）， 服务，因此已被确定为有身体虐待 关系。 父母和孩子将进行一次简短的筛选， 按种族分组，然后随机分配至PCIT治疗组 组（N = 24）或对照组（N = 24），将接受"传统" 家庭保护服务）。 据推测，PCIT中的二分体 治疗组将有更高的比率，父母的口头赞扬， 积极的身体接触，更大的儿童依从性，以及降低 儿童偏差行为发生率高于对照组。 此外，预计PCIT治疗组的父母将 与对照组的父母相比，报告的父母压力更小。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): The physical abuse of children by their parents continues to be a major social problem in our country. However, there has been relatively little attention given to empirical approaches to the treatment of physically abusive families. A careful examination of the current literature suggests that abusive parents are characterized by high rates of negative interaction, low rates of positive interaction, and limited/ineffective parental disciplining strategies. Conversely, physically abused children have been reported to be aggressive, defiant, non-compliant, and resistant to parental direction. Utilizing a social learning framework, this proposal argues that abusive parents and their children engage in a negative coercive cycle which characterizes many of their interactions. At times, this cycle may escalate to the point of physical abuse. This proposal describes the Parent Child Interaction Training (PCIT) as an intervention which targets specific deficits often found within physically abusive parent-child dyads. PCIT is uniquely appropriate with physically abusive parent-child dyads because it has been shown to be highly effective with a similar population (i.e., oppositional, defiant children), it incorporates both the parent and the child, it provides a means to alter the pattern of interactions within abusive relationships, and it provides a means to directly decrease negative affect and control-while promoting (i.e., teaching, coaching) greater positive affect and discipline strategies. Therefore, this project proposes to use a sample of 48 parent-child dyads (mothers and their children) who have been referred to Family Preservation Services and therefore have been identified as having physically abusive relationships. Parent-child dyads will be administered a brief screen, blocked by ethnicity, then randomly assigned to either a PCIT treatment group (N=24) or to a comparison group (N =24) who will receive 'traditional' family preservation services). It is hypothesized that dyads in the PCIT treatment group will have higher rates of parental verbal praise, parental positive physical contact, greater child compliance, and decreasing rates of child deviant behaviors; than dyads in the comparison treatment group. Additionally, it is predicted that parents in the PCIT treatment group will report less perceived parental stress than parents in the comparison group.