Child Abuse Prevention Program Grant Proposal
Abstract
Child abuse is still a significant problem in United States. There are 2.9 million child abuse reports to Child Protective Services in 2005 and 825,000 indicated cases. Child abuse has profound impact on the child’s current and future development. The consequences include health and physical effects, intellectual and cognitive impact, and emotional, psychological and behavioral consequences. To improve parenting practice of first time parents is an important way to address this problem. The rate of child abuse is highest for children between birth and 3 years of age. A new Cognitive Behavioral Parent Training Program for Child Abuse Prevention targeted at first time mothers is formed by absorbing elements from existed parent training programs and adding components of child abuse prevention specifically targeting to first time mothers and infants, This proposal seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Parent Training Program on maternal psychosocial health and child abuse prevention with a three years’ follow up. Randomized control trail will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of this program for reducing child abuse of newborns.
Specific aims
The first aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Parent Training Program for Child Abuse Prevention on maternal psychosocial health. We hypothesize that after attending the training program, maternal psychosocial health such as parenting stress and self-esteem will be improved.
The second aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Parent Training Program for Child Abuse Prevention on child abuse prevention. We hypothesize that mothers attends the training program will be less likely to abuse their children compared to those in the control group.
The second aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Parent Training Program for Child Abuse Prevention in a relatively long run. We
Child abuse is still a significant problem in United States. There are 2.9 million child abuse reports to Child Protective Services in 2005 and 825,000 indicated cases. Child abuse has profound impact on the child’s current and future development. The consequences include health and physical effects, intellectual and cognitive impact, and emotional, psychological and behavioral consequences. To improve parenting practice of first time parents is an important way to address this problem. The rate of child abuse is highest for children between birth and 3 years of age. A new Cognitive Behavioral Parent Training Program for Child Abuse Prevention targeted at first time mothers is formed by absorbing elements from existed parent training programs and adding components of child abuse prevention specifically targeting to first time mothers and infants, This proposal seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Parent Training Program on maternal psychosocial health and child abuse prevention with a three years’ follow up. Randomized control trail will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of this program for reducing child abuse of newborns.
Specific aims
The first aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Parent Training Program for Child Abuse Prevention on maternal psychosocial health. We hypothesize that after attending the training program, maternal psychosocial health such as parenting stress and self-esteem will be improved.
The second aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Parent Training Program for Child Abuse Prevention on child abuse prevention. We hypothesize that mothers attends the training program will be less likely to abuse their children compared to those in the control group.
The second aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Parent Training Program for Child Abuse Prevention in a relatively long run. We