PARENT/CHILD PHYSICAL ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAM

描述(改编自申请人的摘要)：身体虐待 父母抚养的孩子仍然是我国的一个主要社会问题 国家。然而，相对较少的人注意到 身体虐待家庭治疗的经验性方法。一个 对当前文献的仔细研究表明，虐待的父母 其特征是高负互动率、低负互动率 良性互动和有限/无效的父母管教 战略。相反，据报道，遭受身体虐待的儿童 咄咄逼人的，挑衅的，不服从的，抵制父母的指示的。 利用社会学习框架，这项提议认为虐待 父母和他们的孩子陷入了一个消极的强制循环 描述了他们之间的许多互动。有时，这种循环可能会升级。 到了身体虐待的程度。这份提案描述了亲子 互动培训(PCIT)作为针对特定目标的干预 在身体虐待的亲子二人组中经常发现缺陷。PCIT是 特别适合身体虐待的亲子二人组，因为它 已经被证明对类似的人群非常有效(即， 对立的、挑衅的孩子)，它既包括父母，也包括 孩子，它提供了一种改变内部交互模式的方法 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-同时促进(即，教学、指导)更大 积极的情感和纪律策略。 因此，本项目建议使用48个亲子双亲样本 (母亲及其子女)已被转介到家庭保护中心 服务，因此被确定为有身体虐待 两性关系。亲子二人组将被管理一个简短的屏幕， 被种族阻挡，然后随机分配到PCIT治疗 组(N=24)或对照组(N=24)，他们将获得传统的 家庭保护服务)。据推测，PCIT中的二元体 治疗组会有更高的父母口头赞美率，父母 积极的身体接触，更大的儿童依从性，以及 儿童越轨行为：对照治疗组多于二联体。 此外，据预测，PCIT治疗组的父母将 报告说，与对照组的父母相比，他们感受到的父母压力更小。

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.