{"title":"Predicting Treatment Attrition for Child Sexual Abuse Victims","authors":"L. DeLorenzi, Andrew P. Daire, Zachary D. Bloom","doi":"10.1177/2150137816632850","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Sexually abused children drop out of treatment more frequently than children receiving services for other issues. While researchers suggest that chaotic family dynamics may lead to inflated attrition rates in this population, other factors that potentially contribute to treatment attrition are virtually unknown. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between child and parent characteristics with attrition for sexual abuse victims (N = 132) and their nonoffending caregivers. Results indicate that children with parents who confirmed past or current intimate partner violence were 2.5 times more likely to prematurely terminate from treatment.","PeriodicalId":37884,"journal":{"name":"Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation","volume":"27 4 1","pages":"40 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2150137816632850","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Sexually abused children drop out of treatment more frequently than children receiving services for other issues. While researchers suggest that chaotic family dynamics may lead to inflated attrition rates in this population, other factors that potentially contribute to treatment attrition are virtually unknown. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between child and parent characteristics with attrition for sexual abuse victims (N = 132) and their nonoffending caregivers. Results indicate that children with parents who confirmed past or current intimate partner violence were 2.5 times more likely to prematurely terminate from treatment.
期刊介绍:
Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CORE) provides counselor educators, researchers, educators, and other mental health practitioners with outcome research and program evaluation practices for work with individuals across the lifespan. It addresses topics such as: treatment efficacy, clinical diagnosis, program evaluation, research design, outcome measure reviews. This journal also serves to address ethical, legal, and cultural concerns in the assessment of dependent variables, implementation of clinical interventions, and outcome research. Manuscripts typically fall into one of the following categories: Counseling Outcome Research: Treatment efficacy and effectiveness of mental health, school, addictions, rehabilitation, family, and college counseling interventions across the lifespan as reported in clinical trials, single-case research designs, single-group designs, and multi- or mixed-method designs.