Abstract
Child abuse and neglect is a multidimensional problem that requires comprehensive, individualized treatment. The multiproblem nature of maltreating families presents many assessment and treatment difficulties for clinicians and researchers. A variety of factors contribute to difficulties in treating these families, including (1) the presence of multiple stressors and limited financial, personal, and social resources within the family for coping with stressors, (2) the often coercive nature of the referral and the possibility that participation in services may be involuntary or under duress, (3) the fact that abusive behavior cannot be readily observed, and (4) the need for many different interventions to treat several target areas (Azar & Wolfe, 1989; Hansen & Warner, 1992, 1994; Wolfe, 1988). Abusive and neglectful families are a very heterogeneous group for which individualized intervention approaches are needed.
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Hansen, D.J., Warner-Rogers, J.E., Hecht, D.B. (1998). Implementing and Evaluating an Individualized Behavioral Intervention Program for Maltreating Families. In: Lutzker, J.R. (eds) Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2909-2_6
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