Re: Maltreatment Measures

["Murray A. Straus" <mas2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you do not find a more suitable instrument for measuring "substantiatable
child maltreatment....along the lines of what a typical
CPS would consider to be abusive,"   you might take another look at the
CTSPC,  at least for physical abuse.   The severe physical abuse subscale
items are:

    choked the child,
    beat up
    burned or scaled on purpose
    threatened the child with a knife or gun\

There is also a less severe subscale consisting of:

    slapping in the face
    hitting with an object
    throwing or knocking the child down
    punching or kicking

You will find this version of the CTS in CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT, 1998:
249-270  or it can be ordered from us using the order form found at the end
of the bibliography on our web site (address below).

Murray A. Straus, Professor of Sociology
& Co-Director,  Family Research Laboratory
University of New Hampshire,  Durham, NH 03824
Phone:  603 862-2594   Fax:  603 862-1122
E-mail  MAS2@CHRISTA.UNH.EDU

See the Family Research Laboratory web site http://www.unh.edu/frl
for bibliography of books and papers by members of the lab,  conference
announcements,  and information about the lab faculty and research program.
----- Original Message -----
From: DANIELLE BLACK <dblack@Psych1.psy.sunysb.edu>
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 6:41 PM
Subject: Maltreatment Measures


> Hi Everyone-
>
> I am hoping someone can help me.  My colleges and I at Stony
> Brook are looking for self report measures
> of substantiatable child maltreatment. Not something like
> the CTS provides, but more along the lines of what a typical
> CPS would consider to be abusive. Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Danielle Black