Assessing and Treating Physically Abused Children and Their Families
A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
- David Kolko - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
- Cynthia Cupit Swenson - Medical University of South Carolina, USA
March 2002 | 360 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
A professional book aimed at practitioners and practitioners in training, this volume is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive, practical approach to the assessment and treatment of physically abused children. While there are other books that cover certain aspects of assessment and treatment, this book is comprehensive in that it covers child-specific, parent-specific, and family-specific interventions. The volume will present an overview of child physical abuse (including statistics and consequences), it will discuss outcome studies and treatment implications, and it will thoroughly discuss assessment and treatment. It will help practitioners:
- Understand children's abuse experiences, views, exposures to violence, and it will help expose thinking errors or negative attributions. It will also help the practitioner help the children with anxiety management, anger management, social skills, and safety plans.
- Help parents with child management and development, expectations and cognitive distortions, behavior management, and discipline.
- Facilitate family communication and problem solving.
D. Wolfe
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction and Overview
2. Characteristics and Correlates of Child Physical Abuse
3. Treatment Outcome Studies: Clinical and Research Implications
5. The Comprehensive Individual and Family Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Model
6. Initial Treatment Considerations
7. Treatment of the Child: Understanding the Child's Experiences and Behavior
8. Treatment of the Child: Cognitive Interventions
9. Child Treatment: Affect-Focused Interventions
10. Promoting Children's Effective Coping and Social Competence
11. Adult Treatment: Cognitive Interventions
12. Treatment of the Maltreating Adult: Affect-Focused Interventions
13. Treatment of the Maltreating Adult: Behavior Management
14. From Individual to Family Treatment: Bridging Through Clarification
15. Family Treatment: Setting the Foundation
16. Family Treatment: Skills Training and Applications
17. Community and Social Systems Involvement
18. Case Examples and Applications
19. Conclusions
Index
About the Authors