@article{ref1,
title="An attachment-based parental capacity assessment to orient decision-making in child protection cases: a randomized control trial",
journal="Child maltreatment",
year="2020",
author="Cyr, Chantal and Dubois-Comtois, Karine and Paquette, Daniel and Lopez, Leonor and Bigras, Marc",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Two parenting capacity assessment (PCA) protocols, with a short parent-child intervention embedded in each protocol, evaluated the potential for enhanced parenting to orient child placement decision. Parents (n = 69), with substantiated reports of maltreatment by child protective services, and their children (0-6) were randomly assigned to one of two PCAs with either the Attachment Video-feedback (PCA-AVI) or a psychoeducational intervention (PCA-PI) as the embedded intervention component. The PCA-AVI group showed the highest increases in parent-child interaction quality at post-test. Also, at PCA completion, evaluators' conclusions about the parents' capacity to care for both PCA groups were associated with parent-child interactive improvements at post-test, the court's placement decision at post-test, and child placement one year later. However, only conclusions drawn by PCA-AVI evaluators were predictive of child re-reports of maltreatment in the year following PCA. PCAs, relying on short attachment interventions to assess the potential for enhanced parenting, are promising tools to orient child placement decisions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-5595",
doi="10.1177/1077559520967995",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077559520967995"
}