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9 Closing Remarks and Research Opportunities
Pages 95-102

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... Science policy for child mal treatment research was identified in the 1993 NRC report as an important issue and it remains important today. Research needs to be funded if understanding is to progress, and emerging data need to be integrated with current systems, said Petersen.
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From page 96...
...  Many research questions could be asked on assessment for men tal health services planning: Within the context of frontline child welfare practice, how o well do current (and proposed) assessment tools and proce dures identify children with particular problems who likely need mental health services?
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From page 97...
... to effective assessment? What levels of assessment can be reasonably performed by o typical child welfare workers, and what levels require addi tional community professional resources?
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From page 98...
... (Sedlak)  Additional efforts should be made to publicize and disseminate existing data; facilitate full use of existing data; systematically collect data to guide prevention, including representative sam ples of both maltreated and nonmaltreated children; improve maltreatment data in other systems such as the National Crime Victimization Survey and the National Incident-Based Reporting System; and look beyond CPS when defining maltreatment to al so consider children's other victimization experiences.
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From page 99...
... (Daro)  The effective use of technology to implement prevention pro grams should be explored further; this could have many benefi cial impacts, such as improving supervision, empowering participants to seek information, and strengthening provider– participant relationships.
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From page 100...
... (Aarons)  There is a need for methodological innovation in research de sign, implementation methods, and measures, for example, innovative efforts in roll-out designs, system dynamics, network analysis, decision science, and implementation climate.
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...  Additional research on differential response could address these questions: What is the response, and what do differential response o workers do? Which aspects of differential response implementation are o plausibly linked to improving outcomes for children and families?
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From page 102...
... Policy and Support for Child Maltreatment Research  Administrative and grant review processes need to ensure that reviewers have adequate expertise with child maltreatment to en sure that maltreatment research proposals are evaluated on the basis of the quality of the work proposed. (Widom)
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