Engagement in Child Protective Services: The Role of Substance Abuse, Intimate Partner Violence and Race

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca G. Mirick
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Protective Services

Measuring Substance Use Among System-Involved IPV Survivors: A Research Note

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-119
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. O’Brien ◽  
Dania Ermentrout ◽  
Wen Li ◽  
Sarah Dababnah ◽  
Cynthia F. Rizo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Parenting Program ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Study Offer

This research note presents findings from a qualitative study exploring female, system-involved intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors’ perspectives on substance use disclosure in the context of research studies. The study sample includes 22 women who completed a court- and/or child protective services (CPS)–mandated IPV parenting program. Analyses revealed three key areas of participants’ perspectives on substance use assessment and disclosure: (a) administration setting/format and measurement clarity, (b) administrator characteristics, and (c) repercussions due to breach of confidentiality. Findings from the current study offer insights into barriers for survivors reporting their substance use and suggestions for researchers seeking to assess substance use among this population.

Co-Reporting of Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence: The Likelihood of Substantiations and Foster Care Placements

2021 ◽  
pp. 107755952110072
Author(s):  
Rebecca Rebbe ◽  
Andrea Lane Eastman ◽  
Avanti Adhia ◽  
Regan Foust ◽  
Emily Putnam-Hornstein
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Multinomial Regression ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Administrative Records

Intimate partner violence (IPV) negatively affects children. Although IPV-related reports frequently come to the attention of child protective services (CPS), there is neither a unified standard for how CPS systems should respond, nor sufficient research documenting that reaction. The current study used population-based administrative records from California to assess how CPS responds to reported allegations of IPV, with and without physical abuse and/or neglect allegations. We used multinomial regression to model the likelihood of investigation outcomes. Results indicate that 20.7% of CPS reports had IPV alleged during hotline screening, and of those, just 3.2% were screened out compared to 20.2% for reports where IPV was not alleged. Almost half (45.5%) of IPV-alleged reports came from law enforcement, in contrast to 15.2% of reports that did not allege IPV. IPV-alleged reports were more likely to have allegations substantiated without a case opened for services, but less likely to result in foster care placements. Several statistically significant differences were identified by the type of alleged maltreatment co-reported with IPV. This study contributes to an understanding of how CPS responds to IPV-alleged reports.

Reporting Maltreatment to Child Protective Services in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Fraga Rizo ◽  
Jennifer O’Brien ◽  
Rebecca Macy ◽  
Dania Ermentrout ◽  
Paul Lanier
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Parenting Intervention ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Community Engaged Research ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence Research ◽  
Exposed Child

Given the overlap between intimate partner violence (IPV) and child maltreatment, IPV-exposed child participants in research might disclose instances of child maltreatment. Such disclosures might require researchers to report the maltreatment to child protective services (CPS). However, the literature provides minimal guidance on how to navigate the complex challenges and ethical dilemmas around reporting in the context of research. To help address this gap and stimulate discussion regarding protocols and policies for reporting child maltreatment, this article presents a CPS reporting protocol developed as part of a community-engaged research project evaluating a parenting intervention for system-involved mothers experiencing IPV.

Childhood Witnessing of Intimate Partner Violence: The Role of Social Support

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Owen ◽  
M. Thompson ◽  
M. Mitchell ◽  
S. Kennebrew ◽  
A. Paranjape ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner

Intimate Partner Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: Indirect Effects Through Negative and Positive Emotion Dysregulation

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110063
Author(s):  
Lauren E. Simpson ◽  
Alexa M. Raudales ◽  
Miranda E. Reyes ◽  
Tami P. Sullivan ◽  
Nicole H. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Symptom Severity ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation

Women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) are at heightened risk for developing posttraumatic stress (PTS). Emotion dysregulation has been linked to both IPV and PTS, separately, however, unknown is the role of emotion dysregulation in the relation of IPV to PTS among women who experience IPV. Moreover, existing investigations in this area have been limited in their focus on negative emotion dysregulation. Extending prior research, this study investigated whether physical, sexual, and psychological IPV were indirectly associated with PTS symptom severity through negative and positive emotion dysregulation. Participants were 354 women who reported a history of IPV recruited from Amazon’s MTurk platform ( Mage = 36.52, 79.9% white). Participants completed self-report measures assessing physical (Conflict Tactics Scale), sexual (Sexual Experiences Scale), and psychological (Psychological Maltreatment of Women) IPV; negative (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale) and positive (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Positive) emotion dysregulation; and PTS symptom severity (PTSD Checklist for DSM-5) via an online survey. Pearson’s correlation coefficients examined intercorrelations among the primary study variables. Indirect effect analyses were conducted to determine if negative and positive emotion dysregulation explained the relations between physical, sexual, and psychological IPV and PTS symptom severity. Physical, sexual, and psychological IPV were significantly positively associated with both negative and positive emotion dysregulation as well as PTS symptom severity, with the exception that psychological IPV was not significantly associated with positive emotion dysregulation. Moreover, negative and positive emotion dysregulation accounted for the relationships between all three IPV types and PTS symptom severity, with the exception of positive emotion dysregulation and psychological IPV. Our findings provide support for the potential underlying role of both negative and positive emotion dysregulation in the associations of IPV types to PTS symptom severity. Negative and positive emotion dysregulation may be important factors to integrate into interventions for PTS among women who experience IPV.

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