Re: severity rating

[Daryl Higgins <dhiggins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Although developed for parent-report, or retrospective self-report, the
measure my colleague and I have developed could be adapted for CPS record
review. It allows for assessment on a continuous scale of experiences of
(1) sexual abuse, (2) psychological maltreatment, (3) physical abuse, (4)
neglect, and (5) exposure to family/domestic violence. The Comprehensive
Child Maltreatment Scales (CCMS) was described in the following
article:
 Higgins, D. J., & McCabe, M. P. (2000). Relationships betwen
different types of maltreatment during childhood and adjustment in 
adulthood. Child Maltreatment, 5, 261-272.
Additional psychometric properties of the CCMS are described in a
forthcoming article in the Journal of Family Studies:
 Higgins, D. J., & McCabe, M. P. (in press). The development of the
Comprehensive Child Maltreatment Scales. Journal of Family 
Studies.
If you need more info, please contact me directly. Best wishes with your
study.
Regards,
Daryl Higgins.


At 09:28  8/02/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Colleagues---
>
>As part of planning a study which involves extensive CPS record
reviews, I
>am looking for input on how to rate the severity of maltreatment
history.
>Given the breadth of the study and the length of the measure for
the
>caseworker to complete, we do not have the luxury of coming up with a
20
>item scale for each form of maltreatment, but want to go beyond
simply
>"yes" and "no" for the four forms we are
interested in
> neglect
> sexual abuse
> physical abuse
> exposure to domestic violence
>Could somebody recommend (and/or provide a cite) for a measure
which
>provides a method of relatively succinctly determining, for each form
of
>maltreatment, whether the experience was mild, moderate, severe (or
some
>similar continuum)?  
>
>Thank you.
>
>Connie Burrows Horton, Ph.D.
>Associate Professor of Psychology
>Illinois State University
> 
 
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