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There is work that looks at the temperament of the child in relation to child abuse and yes this does continue to hold water but that does not necessarily mean we have caught up with ourselves in practice!!!
Chris Risley-Curtiss, PhD
Associate Professor
ASU School of Social Work & Co-Director of the Child Welfare Training Project
-----Original Message-----
From: John Polstra [mailto:ezreader61@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:00 AM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Interactional nature of physical abuse
I recently read a study completed by Kadushin and Martin (1981) where they completed an extensive literature review describing the interactional nature of child physical abuse. Specifically, they quoted a literature review by Parke and Collmer entitled, Child Abuse: An Interdisciplinary Reviewin Review of Child Development Research (1975) that says
& a serious shortcoming in both the psychiatric and sociological models [of child abuse] is their failure to give adequate recognition to the interactive nature of child abuse. It is insufficient to view abuse from a unidirectional viewpoint, whereby the main cause is located in either the parent or in external circumstances. One important feature of the social-situational approach is the recognition that both partners, the child victim as well as the parent, need to be considered if child abuse is to be fully understood.(Emphasis added by the authors).
Have several requests that I would like to make:
1. This research seems a bit dated. Does anyone involved with the listserv have any suggestions for more current research that supports the same conclusion?
2. Is this a view that continues to hold water in the research community? I ask because I have suspect as much in my work with abusive families, but much of the services that are designed to treat an abusive family are directed at the parents primarily i.e., parenting classes, anger management programs, etc. with some notable exceptions such as Healthy Families. I have always wondered at the logic of removing a child form an abusive home and expecting parents to attend skills training programs without the opportunity to use them with effectiveness prior to the return of the child. I realize that this is an overgeneralization of the process. But, I believe that there is still some validity in this view of the child protection process.
I appreciate any feedback that you have to offer.
Mr. John M. Polstra, MSW, LCSW
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