Re: question re: maltreatment history and parenting

["William McGuigan" <wmm11@xxxxxxx>]

Hello David,
I have some observational measures of child abuse potential and positive
parent-child interactions that were used in a large multi-site home
visiting program with children birth to five years of age. The families
were considered "at-risk" and abuse was confirmed by the state
in a percentage of these families. You can contact me directly at
wmm11@xxxxxxx.
William McGuigan
Penn State University - Shenango

At 12:43 PM 1/30/2006, you wrote:
> List members:
>
> I would like to tap into your collective expertise for a moment.  I
> am conducting a longitudinal study of married couples, all of whom have
> been married less than three years.  The main goal of the project is
> to examine how self-reported child maltreatment history in some of these
> couples is related to current and ongoing marital functioning.  At
> the same time, however, many of the couples are starting to have
> children.  Thus, I am quite interested in how parental maltreatment
> history in its various forms may be related to initial parenting
> practices and parent-child relationships.  Regarding this issue, I
> have two main questions: 
>
> 1.  What parenting and/or parent-child constructs seem most relevant
> to a history of parental abuse?  (currently, the children are all
> under the age of 2)
>
> 2.  What instruments (self-report or observational) would you use to
> measure these constructs?
>
> I am happy to reply individually with more details, but thought that this
> might stimulate some thinking.  If people reply back channel, I will
> compile responses and send them to the list.
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
> David DiLillo, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Psychology
> 238 Burnett Hall
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln
> Lincoln, NE 68588-0308
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