Project 12-ways: Measuring outcome of a large in-home service for treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect |
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| Authors: | John R Lutzker PhD James M Rice RhD |
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| Institution: | Professor and Coordinator, Behavior Analysis and Therapy Program and Project 12-Ways, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL 62901 U.S.A.;Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, IN, 46223 U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Described here is Project 12-Ways, a large service project employing an ecobehavioral approach to the treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect. By ecobehavioral it is meant that multifaceted in-home services are provided to clients, and that in-home data are collected on as many variables related to these services as possible. Four levels of research, data collection, and assessment are used to evaluate these services: Included here is a discussion of these levels of assessment. They are: data collected for clinical purposes; data from single-case experiments; research through the use of single-subject design logic applied to several subjects or groups of subjects, or by group statistical research designs; and program evaluation. The particular focus here is the program evaluation data which compare incidents of abuse and neglect during and after treatment between 50 families served by Project 12-Ways and 47 comparison protective service families. The data showed significantly fewer combined abuse and neglect incidents among the families served by Project 12-Ways. Suggestions for additional program evaluation data are provided along with a discussion of the limitations of the current analysis. |
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| Keywords: | Reprint requests should be sent to John R Lutzker Ph D Behavior Analysis and Therapy Program Rehabilitation Institute Southern Illinois University at Carbondale IL 62901 |
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