McCloskey, L. (2011). A systematic review of parenting interventions to prevent child abuse tested with RCT designs in high income countries. Pretoria: SVRI.
Abstract
The objectives of this review are to evaluate how parenting programs succeed at: (1) eliminating child abuse as manifest in official reports and in-person assessments; (2) altering parenting behaviors or attitudes associated with abuse; (3) enhancing parent-child relationships and positive parenting skills as buffers against abuse.
