An attachment-based parental capacity assessment to Orient decision-making in child protection cases: a randomized control trial

Two parenting capacity assessment (PCA) protocols, with a short parent-child intervention embedded in each protocol, evaluated the potential for enhanced parenting to orient child placement decision. Parents (n = 69), with substantiated reports of maltreatment by child protective services, and their...

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1. VerfasserIn: Cyr, Chantal (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Dubois-Comtois, Karine ; Paquette, Daniel ; Lopez, Leonor ; Bigras, Marc
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2022
In: Child maltreatment
Jahr: 2022, Band: 27, Heft: 1, Seiten: 66-77
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Attachment
child placement decision
Intervention
Maltreatment
parent-child interaction
parenting capacity assessment
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Zusammenfassung:Two parenting capacity assessment (PCA) protocols, with a short parent-child intervention embedded in each protocol, evaluated the potential for enhanced parenting to orient child placement decision. Parents (n = 69), with substantiated reports of maltreatment by child protective services, and their children (0-6) were randomly assigned to one of two PCAs with either the Attachment Video-feedback (PCA-AVI) or a psychoeducational intervention (PCA-PI) as the embedded intervention component. The PCA-AVI group showed the highest increases in parent-child interaction quality at post-test. Also, at PCA completion, evaluators’ conclusions about the parents’ capacity to care for both PCA groups were associated with parent-child interactive improvements at post-test, the court’s placement decision at post-test, and child placement one year later. However, only conclusions drawn by PCA-AVI evaluators were predictive of child re-reports of maltreatment in the year following PCA. PCAs, relying on short attachment interventions to assess the potential for enhanced parenting, are promising tools to orient child placement decisions.
ISSN:1552-6119
DOI:10.1177/1077559520967995