Re: admitting abuse

["2C0" <psylevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have no data on point, but see Levine, M. & Doherty E. (1991) The Fifth
Amendment and therapeutic  requirements to admit abuse. Criminal Justice
and Behavior, 18, 98-112. The paper traised issues that are on point for
this qwuestions. Murray levine

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 BRubin525@xxxxxxx wrote:

> In our community CPS takes the position that a parent must acknowledge both
> the  abuse of their children and take responsibility for the abuse
> before the parent can have unsupervised visits with their children.  Yet, many
> stuck cases get hung up when a parent adamantly denies either the abuse or
> that it had any negative effects.  Despite a great amount of work, if a parent
> continues to deny these events, there is little chance for any reunification.
> Yet, in many cases, parent's can agree that in the future there will be no
> corporal punishment.  Also, in some cases, despite the parent's denial, enough
> work has been done that it appears the children will be reasonably safe.Is
> there any research that supports the idea that a parent "must" admit the abuse
> before the child is reasonably safe?  Or is this simply an ideological
> position that is based on clinical practice?  I am mostly thinking about
> physical
> abuse,  Bart Rubin, Ph.D.
> 

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