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NEW DIRECTIONS IN CHILD ABUSE
AND NEGLECT RESEARCH

Committee on Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the
Next Decade: Phase II

Anne C. Petersen, Joshua Joseph, and Monica Feit, Editors

Board on Children, Youth, and Families

Committee on Law and Justice

     INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE AND
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
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This study was supported by Contract/Grant No. HHSP23320110010YC between the National Academy of Sciences and the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the project.

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COMMITTEE ON CHILD MALTREATMENT RESEARCH,
POLICY, AND PRACTICE FOR THE NEXT DECADE: PHASE II

ANNE C. PETERSEN (Chair), Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

LUCY BERLINER, Director, Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress, Seattle, Washington

LINDA MARIE BURTON, James B. Duke Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

PHAEDRA S. CORSO, Professor, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens

DEBORAH DARO, Senior Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Illinois

HOWARD DAVIDSON, Director, American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, Washington, DC

ANGELA DÍAZ, Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

MARY DOZIER, Unidel Amy E. du Pont Chair of Child Development, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark

FERNANDO A. GUERRA, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio

CAROL HAFFORD, Principal Research Scientist, NORC at the University of Chicago, Bethesda, Maryland

CHARLES A. NELSON, Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Richard David Scott Chair of Pediatric, Developmental Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts

ELLEN E. PINDERHUGHES, Associate Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts

FRANK W. PUTNAM, JR., Professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DESMOND K. RUNYAN, Executive Director, Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora

CATHY SPATZ WIDOM, Distinguished Professor, Psychology Department, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York

JOAN LEVY ZLOTNIK, Director, Social Work Policy Institute, National Association of Social Workers, Washington, DC

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Consultants

GREGORY A. AARONS, University of California, San Diego

RICHARD P. BARTH, University of Maryland

REBECCA BERTELL, University of Maryland

CINDY CHRISTIAN, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

HOWARD DUBOWITZ, University of Maryland

DEBORAH HARBURGER, University of Maryland

STANLEY J. HUEY, JR., University of Southern California

KENT P. HYMEL, The Children’s Hospital of Dartmouth

NANCY KELLOGG, University of Texas Health Science Center

JOHN LANDSVERK, Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego

LAWRENCE PALINKAS, University of Southern California

MATHEW URETSKY, University of Maryland

ALLISON WEST, University of Maryland

KRISTEN WOODRUFF, University of Maryland

FRED WULCZYN, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

Study Staff

MONICA FEIT, Study Director1

JOSHUA JOSEPH, Study Director2

MICHAEL McGEARY, Senior Program Officer3

TARA MAINERO, Research Associate4

ALEJANDRA MARTÍN, Research Associate5

KAREN CAMPION, Research Assistant6

AMANDA PASCAVIS, Research Assistant7

WENDY KEENAN, Program Associate

SAMANTHA ROBOTHAM, Senior Program Assistant

PAMELLA ATAYI, Administrative Assistant

KATHLEEN McGRAW-SHEPHERD, Intern8

KIMBER BOGARD, Director, Board on Children, Youth, and Families

ARLENE LEE, Director, Committee on Law and Justice

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1Through January 2013.

2Starting January 2013.

3Starting January 2013 through March 2013.

4Starting September 2013.

5Through September 2013.

6Starting December 2012 through August 2013.

7Starting November 2013.

8Starting May 2012 through August 2012.

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Acknowledgments

This report reflects contributions from numerous individuals and groups. The committee takes this opportunity to recognize those who so generously gave their time and expertise to inform its deliberations.

To begin, the committee would like to thank the sponsor of this study. Support for the committee’s work was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children’s Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect. We wish to thank Joe Bock, Melissa Brodowski, Catherine Nolan, Bryan Samuels, and Dori Sneddon for their guidance and support.

The committee greatly benefited from the opportunity for discussion with individuals who made presentations at and attended the committee’s workshops and meetings (see Appendix B). The committee is thankful for the useful contributions of these many individuals.

The committee could not have done its work without the support and guidance provided by the Institute of Medicine (IOM)/National Research Council (NRC) project staff: Karen Campion, Monica Feit, Joshua Joseph, Wendy Keenan, Tara Mainero, Alejandra Martín, Kathleen McGraw-Shepherd, Amanda Pascavis, and Samantha Robotham. The committee gratefully acknowledges Kimber Bogard of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families and Arlene Lee and Jane Ross of the Committee on Law and Justice for their guidance on this study.

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Many other staff within the IOM/NRC provided support to this in various ways. The committee would like to thank Pamella Atayi, Burke, Laura DeStefano, Chelsea Frakes, Faye Hillman, Nicole Joy, McGeary, Abbey Meltzer, and Patti Simon. Finally, Rona Briere and Alisa Decatur are to be credited for the superb editorial assistance they provided in preparing the final report.

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Reviewers

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

Dolores Subia BigFoot, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University

Mark J. Chaffin, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Diana English, University of Washington

Sally Flanzer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Retired)

Joan Kaufman, Yale University

Jill E. Korbin, Case Western Reserve University

Richard D. Krugman, University of Colorado at Denver

Kristen Shook Slack, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Charles H. Zeanah, Tulane University

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the report’s conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the

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report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Robert S. Lawrence, Johns Hopkins University, and Nancy E. Adler, University of California, San Francisco. Appointed by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, they were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.

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Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The long-term human and fiscal consequences of child abuse and neglect are not relegated to the victims themselves—they also impact their families, future relationships, and society. In 1993, the National Research Council (NRC) issued the report, Under-standing Child Abuse and Neglect, which provided an overview of the research on child abuse and neglect. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research updates the 1993 report and provides new recommendations to respond to this public health challenge. According to this report, while there has been great progress in child abuse and neglect research, a coordinated, national research infrastructure with high-level federal support needs to be established and implemented immediately.

New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research recommends an actionable framework to guide and support future child abuse and neglect research. This report calls for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to child abuse and neglect research that examines factors related to both children and adults across physical, mental, and behavioral health domains—including those in child welfare, economic support, criminal justice, education, and health care systems—and assesses the needs of a variety of subpopulations. It should also clarify the causal pathways related to child abuse and neglect and, more importantly, assess efforts to interrupt these pathways. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research identifies four areas to look to in developing a coordinated research enterprise: a national strategic plan, a national surveillance system, a new generation of researchers, and changes in the federal and state programmatic and policy response.

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