Early Prevention of Youth Violence Among Foster Children

早期预防寄养儿童中的青少年暴力

• 批准号: 7019653
• 负责人: LOURDES ORIANA LINARES
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2008-08-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7019653
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; aggression; behavior modification; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; child abuse; child behavior disorders; child foster care /adoption; child psychology; child rearing; clinical research; cooperative study; data collection methodology /evaluation; early experience; field study; human subject; human therapy evaluation; interview; longitudinal human study; middle childhood (6-11); outcomes research; social behavior disorders; social psychology; socializations; violence prevention

DESCRIPTION (adapted from applicant's abstract): Little attention has been given to the promotion and dissemination of effective childhood violence prevention for young (< 10 years of age) urban African American and Latino maltreated children raised in foster homes, despite the strong linkages between early childhood aggression and later youth violence. Promising findings with 128 biological and foster families in New York City demonstrated improvement in positive parenting, supportive co-parenting, and trends for lower child behavior problems for caregivers receiving a newly developed two-component (parenting and co-parenting) family intervention. Preliminary studies support the feasibility of training foster care staff in manualized interventions delivered in their agency, retaining families through the duration of the intervention, and obtaining high ratings of consumer satisfaction. The PI proposes to adapt, integrate, and experimentally evaluate a child-centered intervention of two existing, protocol-driven, empirically-supported child programs (The Dina Dinosaur's Curriculum for Young Children Social Skills and Problem Solving and the Kids Club: An Intervention Group for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence). The project will: (1) examine the short-term impact of the 12-week child intervention on the reduction of early physical aggression and its correlates (problems in social competence, emotional regulation, and social cognitions about violence) in the foster home, and classroom; and the reduction of foster placement instability; and (2) explore the impact of quality of implementation (dosage and adherence), and initial level of child aggression on intervention effects. Strong community networks are established with volunteering foster care agencies in New York City to accomplish the aims of this project. The sample consists of 102 foster children (ages 5-8 years) with substantiated neglect, exposure to domestic violence or physical abuse nested within six agencies. A randomized field trial will be used to assign children to the intervention (n=62) or a 'usual care' comparison (n=40) condition. Primary outcomes include measures of early physical aggression and behavior correlates, and the stability of the placement assessed by multiple agents (the child, foster parent, trained observer, and teacher) and across settings (foster home, classroom) at pre-test, post-test, and 3 months follow-up.

描述（根据申请人的摘要改编）：尽管在寄养家庭和后来的青少年暴力之间存在很强的联系，但对促进和传播有效的童年暴力预防（<10岁）城市非洲裔美国和拉丁裔虐待儿童的促进和传播几乎没有关注。纽约市有128个生物学和寄养家庭的有前途的发现表明，积极的育儿，支持性的共同父母以及降低儿童行为问题的趋势，以接受新开发的两组分（育儿和共同父母）的家庭干预措施。初步研究支持培训寄养人员在其代理商中提供的手动干预措施，在干预期间保留家庭的可行性，并获得了高度的消费者满意度评级。 PI建议对两个现有的，方案驱动的，经验支持的儿童计划（Dina Dinosaur的针对幼儿的社交技能和解决问题的儿童俱乐部和儿童俱乐部：一个针对家庭暴力的儿童干预小组）进行适应，整合和实验评估以儿童为中心的干预措施（Dina Dinosaur的课程：遭受家庭暴力的干预小组）。该项目将：（1）研究12周的儿童干预对减少早期身体侵略的短期影响及其相关性（社会能力，情感调节和对暴力的社会认知问题）在寄养家庭和教室中的相关性；以及减少寄养位置不稳定； （2）探索实施质量（剂量和依从性）的影响，以及儿童侵略对干预效果的初始水平。建立了强大的社区网络，该网络由纽约市的志愿寄养机构建立，以实现该项目的目标。该样本由102名寄养儿童（5-8岁）组成，其疏忽，遭受六个机构内嵌套的家庭暴力或身体虐待。随机现场试验将用于将儿童分配给干预措施（n = 62）或“通常的护理”比较（n = 40）条件。主要结果包括早期身体侵略和行为相关的度量，以及由多个代理（孩子，寄养父母，受过训练的观察者和教师）评估的安置稳定性以及在测试前，测试后和3个月的随访中（寄养家庭，教室，教室，教室）随访。