A literature review was undertaken to examine evidence for the effectiveness of
psychotherapy with mandated clients. The primary question addressed was whether or not …

One of the more serious problems faced by child welfare services involves the management
of children with serious behavioral and mental health problems. Aggressive and defiant …

1.3. 2. Abandono o negligencia física/cognitiva Se define como «aquella situación donde
las necesidades físicas'"(alimentación, vestido, higiene, protección y vigilancia en las …

Child welfare service agencies provide parent training as part of their legally mandated
responsibility to provide services to assist families to keep their children at home or to …

A designated priority in the field of child maltreatment is the development of empirical
approaches for treating abusive families. This article describes parent-child interaction …

Two stimulus control processes by which some parent‐child dyads occasionally escalate
their aversive exchanges into progressively more coercive interactions are described. The …

We identify two distinct components of parent participation in intensive family preservation
services: collaboration in treatment planning and compliance with program expectations …

Although client participation is central to psychosocial interventions, most investigations
conceptualize and measure participation in rather crude ways. This review suggests that …

A major criticism of mandated reporting laws is that they produce many unsubstantiated
reports, increasing workload for child protective services, wasting resources, and reducing …

This chapter describes available promising behavioral and cognitive behavioral approaches
to the treatment of child physical abuse and neglect (see also Saunders, Berliner, & Hanson …