Changed for the Better: The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors Framework
Rates of child maltreatment in the U.S. have been relatively stagnant since the 1990s. This lack of progress suggests that prevention efforts, which have primarily focused on individual behaviors, have been unsuccessful. Building on existing research, this conceptual paper identifies the need to ref...
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| description | Rates of child maltreatment in the U.S. have been relatively stagnant since the 1990s. This lack of progress suggests that prevention efforts, which have primarily focused on individual behaviors, have been unsuccessful. Building on existing research, this conceptual paper identifies the need to refocus prevention efforts on changeable and causal risk factors. The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors (MMF), a new framework to classify risk factors for maltreatment, is introduced. Use of the MMF in social work education and child protective services work could increase the understanding of macro factors in child maltreatment and the possibilities of policy change and community organizing in maltreatment prevention. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7bc3e3a340b149bea5b882ff81535aa82023-11-23T22:04:34ZengMDPI AGSocieties2075-46982022-02-011212110.3390/soc12010021Changed for the Better: The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors FrameworkMegan Feely0School of Social Work, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT 06103, USARates of child maltreatment in the U.S. have been relatively stagnant since the 1990s. This lack of progress suggests that prevention efforts, which have primarily focused on individual behaviors, have been unsuccessful. Building on existing research, this conceptual paper identifies the need to refocus prevention efforts on changeable and causal risk factors. The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors (MMF), a new framework to classify risk factors for maltreatment, is introduced. Use of the MMF in social work education and child protective services work could increase the understanding of macro factors in child maltreatment and the possibilities of policy change and community organizing in maltreatment prevention.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/12/1/21child maltreatmentchild maltreatment preventionchild abusechild neglect |
| spellingShingle | Megan Feely Changed for the Better: The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors Framework Societies child maltreatment child maltreatment prevention child abuse child neglect |
| title | Changed for the Better: The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors Framework |
| title_full | Changed for the Better: The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors Framework |
| title_fullStr | Changed for the Better: The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors Framework |
| title_full_unstemmed | Changed for the Better: The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors Framework |
| title_short | Changed for the Better: The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors Framework |
| title_sort | changed for the better the modifiable maltreatment factors framework |
| topic | child maltreatment child maltreatment prevention child abuse child neglect |
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