Service and Interventions/ Legal & Policy: Summary and recommendations of breakout group.

Principles

 • Learn from past mistakes in research – lumping effect • John Fantuzzo approach – fewer variables that account for more of the variance • Ecological/developmental approach 

Immediate Research Recommendation

 • Evaluate current shelter programs for batterers, spouses, and children (process and outcome program evaluation) • Replicate promising programs 

Recommend Intervention Research 

Longitudinal 

Prospective 

Multi-site 

Multi agency 

Culturally specific 

Adjusted for specific disabilities (hearing impaired) Incorporates current research findings 

Includes young children and older adolescents Involves community participants in designing intervention 

Broad referral base Methods to reduce attrition (e.g., provide transportation, use of incentives) 

Multiple data sources 

Evaluate timing of interventions • Immediate • Onset of symptoms • Onset of disorders 

Differential effects of forms of violence Effects of substance use 

Effects of service site (e.g., clinic, in-home) 

Dosage effects 

Needs of children who do not present with symptoms 

 Factors contributing to resilience for children and parents 

Father/child relationships

Functional outcomes of children • Biological factors contributing to violence • Degree of collaboration among agencies.

Problems 

Availability of personnel to serve minority populations IRB approval • Need education on violence, child abuse and neglect • DHHS needs to take leadership role on IRB barriers to research Work force • Who is delivering services? • What training do they need? Sustaining financing for services Effects of HIPPA • Replicate current promising programs 

Other Testable Ideas 

Parenting for divorced parents with DV history regarding custody, parenting Parenting approach for parents with teens Teach parenting using alternative tools (e.g., video, CD Rom, written self-study) Involve health insurance companies to decrease medical costs.

Workshop on Children Exposed to Violence.


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