Parenting Skills Training for Child Abusers

James M. Gaudin; David P. Kurtz

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James M. Gaudin Author
David P. Kurtz Author

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Abusers

Abstract

The physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of children in the United States is a problem which continues to command public attention and challenge the skills of professionals in the behavioral sciences. Estimates of the incidence of child abuse and neglect range from 250,000 to 4 million children annually. Millions of dollars expended on innumerable research and service projects have failed to produce the formula for preventing this menace to thousands of America's children. Recently parenting education approaches with abusive and neglectful parents have been widely employed to remedy deficits in parenting knowledge and skills. This article reviews the empirical evidence from published reports for the effectiveness of parenting education approaches with abusing parents.

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