...Yael Sela Vilensky; Keren Grinberg; Yael Yisaschar-Mekuzas Purpose This study aims to identify the barriers that prevent community nurses in Israel from reporting cases of child maltreatment. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative study included interviews of 20 community nurses using...

... improve consumer outcomes. To address child maltreatment, growing evidence suggests that behavioral parent-training programs can effectively change parental behaviors and reduce parental risk (Chen and Chan, 2016), and many states and localities have implemented evidence-based behavioral parenting...

.... The second group of indicators reflects the socio-economic situation of the eight selected regions through variables that have already been used in other studies in relation to child maltreatment: unemployment, poverty and disposable income. The main source of the data was the Living Conditions Survey...

... re-use rights only Adaptation Evidence-based practice Implementation Child maltreatment Child neglect Empirically supported treatment Child welfare As evidence-based practices (EBPs) move out of controlled settings, such as efficacy studies, and begin to be implemented in real-world...

... to child maltreatment risk were significantly lower on post-tests as compared to their retrospective pre-test scores. Research limitations/implications Participants in HMGU clearly increased in the development of protective factors. Replication of this study is recommended and the need for a control...

... and adoption of relationship-based approaches is perhaps the best protection against increasing commodification of social work practice. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social work Child maltreatment Child protection Epistemic trust...

...Tara Flemington; Jennifer Anne Fraser Purpose – Nurse home visiting programmes designed to reduce the likelihood of child maltreatment in families at risk have been widely implemented in Australia and overseas. The purpose of this paper is to examine the intensity and duration of maternal...

... and programme outcomes in a home visiting programme. It is one of the first explorations of the relationship between maternal involvement and programme outcomes in a targeted nurse home visiting programme to prevent child maltreatment. The findings from this study are critical to future home visiting programme...

...Mariella Mangion; Sandra C. Buttigieg Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine whether multi-type child maltreatment is associated with health-risk behaviours and mental ill-health in adolescence. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 406 15-16-year-old students from Maltese...

.... Originality/value – This paper provides an overview of key issues in neurodevelopment relating to the development of young children, and implications for policy and practice. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Environment Caregiving Child maltreatment Neurodevelopment Brain structure...

... for families involved in child welfare and for foster parents. This article describes how the updated IY parenting basic programme is delivered with fidelity to this population. Key words Incredible Years parenting programme; child maltreatment; evidence-based programmes; positive parenting skills Introduction...

... are then discussed, as are the essential elements of effective professional practice in child protection. Particular attention is paid to effective approaches to helping families and young people who are hard to identify or engage. Key words child maltreatment; effective child protection; hard to reach and hard...