RE: Assessment of Workers' Beliefs About Abuse

["Little, Christina" <Little.Christina@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You may want to look at the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale - Adult
Recall version by Murray Straus.  It covers a wide range of disciplinary
behaviors.

This is a link to papers available on his website.


 http://www.unh.edu/frl/unpubpap.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon Carnahan [mailto:scarnahan@Rollins.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:04 PM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Assessment of Workers' Beliefs About Abuse


I am looking for a simple, "self awareness" raising measure of one's
personal history of discipline styles or abuse, or of one's beliefs
about discipline and abuse.

I want to use it during a workshop on personal beliefs about discipline
that I am conducting with family support workers.  The participants are
90% African American or Haitian American, and most have several years'
experience in working with children at risk.  The workshop focuses on
world wide variations in definitions of abuse, and then leads workers to
develop a consensus based definition of what is "never OK" in
disciplining children.  The purpose is to take the focus off of spanking
and on to neglect plus emotional and physical abuse.

Suggestions and sources, please?

Sharon Carnahan, Ph.D.