What Practitioners Need to Help Maltreated Children & Their Families
A child maltreatment practitioner makes only two kinds of decisions to help a child and family for any outcome (e.g., maltreatment exposure, PTSD, substance abuse, suicidal behavior) of concern: They must be able to use information about the child and family to 1. Determine their risk for the outcome, and (if the risk is determined to be present) 2. To apply intervention to reduce it. This session introduces this central concept and describes the knowledge needed to apply it. Predictive knowledge informs risk. Causal knowledge informs intervention targeting.
