Child Abuse Intervention

Child abuse and neglect continues to be a global problem; it occurs when a parent or caregiver abuses a child physically, emotionally, sexually, or mentally. Unfortunately, it is a problem that will continue to exist. Research has found that children who suffer from child abuse and neglect are likely to to grow up having physical and psychological delays (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2013). Therefore, interventions are necessary to help clients with the use of individual counseling, the involvement of communities and implementation of parental educational programs. In hence, it will help children, parents and caregivers in the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect in the micro, mezzo and macro levels. Parents have the

In other words, social support from the community is essential, parents need support from outside sources such as friends, family and the members of their community to help them with the challenges they may face. While, children and young teenagers need the support of teachers, mentors, and friends, they can trust and turn to if there are problems at home (Haynes, Cuthbert, Gardner, Telford, & Hodson, 2015). An intervention in the mezzo level is by educating the community on the signs of child abuse and neglect in order to provide a safe environment for children. Social workers will need to integrated social support groups such as, social skills training, home-based family interventions, emergency assistance and intense therapy. By using Cognitive-behavioral as an intervention it will provide parents and caregivers with the social skills needed to help them accomplish child care tasks, receive verbal instructions about appropriate child care and techniques to help relax and alleviate everyday stresses. However, with the use of Child-Centered as an intervention for children at risk of or who are experiencing maltreatment, it will provide the necessary services to ensure their safety and provide children with the skills and support needed to help them overcome the abuse and neglect effectively. Child-centered interventions consist of pediatric

The purpose of the Act is to provide federal funding to all fifty states for the development of preventive and treatment programs for children who are abused and neglected. At this point, a way to implement changes in the macro level in the prevention of child abuse and neglect is by organizing a review board of stakeholders to address the scope of this problem with parental educational programs. The board is composed of individuals that are from the following occupations: advocacy and faith based organizations, elected officials, school district representatives, community representatives, social workers and the Department of Children and Family and staff. The board’s aim is to review the fundamental risk factors (parental substance abuse and mental illness, domestic violence and child conduct behavioral) that lead to child abuse and neglect and implement parental educational programs across the state. All parents will be the first individuals to part take in this initiation, secondly, will be all professionals who work closely and/or with the children and lastly, all members of society. The goal of this plan is to annihilate these risk factors by properly educating parents and caregivers with parenting educational programs that will provide them with the skills and knowledge needed to prevent child abuse