RT Article
T1 An attachment-based parental capacity assessment to Orient decision-making in child protection cases: a randomized control trial
JF Child maltreatment
VO 27
IS 1
SP 66
OP 77
A1 Cyr, Chantal
A2 Dubois-Comtois, Karine
A2 Paquette, Daniel
A2 Lopez, Leonor
A2 Bigras, Marc
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1845440137
AB 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.
K1 Attachment
K1 child placement decision
K1 Intervention
K1 Maltreatment
K1 parent-child interaction
K1 parenting capacity assessment
DO 10.1177/1077559520967995