Children Exposed To Violence
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Effective | Implementing the program is likely to result in the intended outcome(s). | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. | |
Promising | Implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s) | On average, there is some evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. | |
Ineffective | Implementing the program is unlikely to result in the intended outcome(s) and may result in a negative outcome(s). | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will not achieve the intended outcome or may result in a negative outcome. |
Programs
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Program Profile: Impact of the Wraparound Program for Dually Involved Youth (Florida) on Youth Arrests |
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Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Case Management, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Comprehensive/wraparound services, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare | The program is an intensive case management model for providing services to youths simultaneously involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, with the goal of reducing recidivism. The program is rated No Effects. There was no statistically significant difference in youth arrests between youths who participated in the Wraparound Program, compared with youths in the treatment-as-usual condition. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Risk Reduction through Family Therapy (RRFT) for Adolescents |
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Mental health, Substance abuse, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crisis response, Juvenile (under 18), Drugs, Drug treatment | The goal of this exposure-based, integrative intervention was to reduce substance use and mental health problems in adolescents who have experienced trauma. The program is rated Promising. The program had a statistically significant impact on depressive and internalizing symptoms, family cohesion, and family conflict. There were mixed results for PTSD symptoms and substance use. There was no statistically significant impact on externalizing symptoms. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Stepped Collaborative Care for Adolescents (Washington State) |
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Alcohol, Mental health, Substance abuse, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Legal substances, Drugs | This program was designed to reduce violence risk behaviors as well as PTSD and depressive symptoms by providing adolescents with a variety of services following a traumatic injury. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention and control groups in substance use problems, or PTSD and depressive symptoms, though intervention group patients reported a statistically significant reduction in weapons carrying. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Happy Families (Thailand) |
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Children exposed to violence, Coping, Trauma, Mental health | This was a parenting and family skills intervention for displaced Burmese migrant families in Thailand. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant impact on child externalizing problems, family cohesion, family communication and positive parent-child interactions in the treatment group, compared with the control group. However, there was no statistically significant effect on child attention problems, or child internalizing problems. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Expanded Early Pathways for Young Traumatized Children |
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Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Trauma | This is an at-home parent and child therapy program for young children with behavioral and emotional problems who have experienced trauma and live in poverty. The program is rated Effective. Treatment group children had statistically significant reductions in challenging behaviors and anxious/withdrawn and fearful symptoms of trauma, compared with children on a waitlist. The quality of caregiver–child relationships also had statistically significant improved. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Nurturing Families Network (NFN) Home-Visiting Program |
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Children exposed to violence, Foster care/child welfare system, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention | This is a home-visiting program for first-time mothers in high-risk families that promotes positive parenting to prevent child maltreatment and out-of-home placements. The program is rated No Effects. Treatment group families had a statistically significant lower number of substantiated child maltreatment and neglect cases, compared with the comparison group, but there was no statistically significant effect on out-of-home placements, and substantiated physical abuse. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Prev@cib Program (Spain) |
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Bullying, School safety, Computers, Campus Crime, Children exposed to violence, School climate, Schools, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Victimization, Victims of crime | This is an anti-bullying program for adolescents in Spain, which is designed to decrease bullying and cyberbullying perpetration and victimization both in the classroom and virtual environments. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant decrease in bullying and victimization and cyberbullying and cybervictimization for the treatment group, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Crossover Youth Practice Model |
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Family courts, Juvenile courts, Diversion, Children exposed to violence, Foster care/child welfare system, Crime prevention, Recidivism | This is a model that uses a conceptual plan and organizational framework to strengthen collaborations between child welfare and juvenile justice system professionals and partners to prevent or reduce youths’ involvement in the juvenile justice system or related systems of care. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group youth showed a statistically significant reduction in recidivism rates, compared with youth in the comparison groups. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Family Finding |
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Family courts, Children exposed to violence, Case Management, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Juvenile (under 18) | This program is designed to find and engage kin and fictive kin to support the needs of foster care youth. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant greater number of kin and fictive kin found and positive attachment figures identified for the intervention group, compared with the comparison group. However, there was no significant difference in proportion of relative placements to total placements, reunification rates, or externalizing and internalizing behaviors. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Massachusetts Child Trauma Project (MCTP) |
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Children exposed to violence, Treatment, Case Management, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Gun violence | This program was designed to improve well-being and permanency outcomes for children with complex trauma in state care. The program is rated No Effects. Overall, findings were mixed. There were statistically significant findings favoring the treatment group, including increased likelihood of adoption; however, there were also statistically significant findings favoring the control group. Overall, the preponderance of evidence suggests the program did not have the intended effects on children. Date Posted: |
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Practices
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Practice Profile: Parent-Involved Antibullying Programs for Youth |
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Bullying, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Schools, School safety, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Victimization, Mental health | This practice includes programs that offer a parent-involved component to reduce bullying perpetration and victimization. This practice is rated Promising for reducing bullying victimization and perpetration, reducing negative parenting, and improving positive parenting skills but is rated No Effects for reducing youth depression. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Psychosocial Interventions for Antisocial Behavior of Juveniles |
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Juvenile health, Mental health, Treatment, Child health and welfare, Drugs, Drug treatment | This practice involves the use of psychosocial interventions to reduce antisocial behavior in juveniles. Psychosocial interventions consist of both preventive and therapeutic interventions but share the common goal of improving psychosocial functioning. The practice is rated Effective for the reduction of antisocial behavior. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Psychotherapy with Adults Sexually Abused in Childhood |
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Children exposed to violence, Coping, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Mental health | This practice comprises therapeutic approaches for adults who were sexually abused in childhood, and is designed to improve psychological distress, reduce maladaptive behavior, or enhance adaptive behavior through counseling, structured or unstructured interaction, or a predetermined treatment plan. The practice is rated Promising for decreasing posttraumatic stress disorder, trauma, and internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Kinship Care for Children Removed from Home for Maltreatment |
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Juvenile health, Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18) | An alternative to traditional foster care, this practice places children removed from home due to maltreatment with other members of their family or with friends of the family. This practice is rated Promising for reducing behavioral and adaptive problems, increasing child well-being, decreasing the number of placements, and reducing institutional abuse. The practice is rated No Effects for increasing family reunification and attachment. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Preventive Child Maltreatment Programs |
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Children exposed to violence, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Crisis response | Preventive child maltreatment programs are designed to prevent physical child abuse or neglect by educating expectant and new parents in parenting skills, coping with stressors, and stimulating child development. This practice is rated Effective for preventing child abuse, neglect, and maltreatment. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for Children with PTSD |
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Juvenile health, Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment | This individual therapy practice aims to help children recover from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through short imaginal exposure to the memory and subsequent stimuli to trigger eye movement. The practice is rated Promising for trauma/PTSD measures and No Effects for measures of major depressive disorders and anxiety disorders. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Therapeutic Approaches for Sexually Abused Children and Adolescents |
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Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Victims of crime | Interventions designed to reduce the negative effects of child sexual abuse, which can include PTSD, internalizing behaviors, and externalizing behaviors. The practice is rated Effective for reducing PTSD symptoms, internalizing behaviors, and externalizing behaviors. Date Posted: |
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