This document was printed from the website of the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), which you can access at http://www.cachildwelfareclearinghouse.org/
This document was printed from the website of the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), which you can access at http://www.cachildwelfareclearinghouse.org/
Child Welfare Outcomes: Safety and child/family well-being.
Type of Maltreatment: Emotional abuse, Exposure to domestic violence, and Physical abuse
Target Population: Families (mothers and children) who had recently sought refuge at domestic violence shelters, with children aged 4-9 exhibiting clinical levels of elevations on externalizing problems (e.g., disruptive, defiant behaviors).
Brief Description:
Project SUPPORT has been rated by the CEBC in the area of Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence: Services for Women Victims and their Children. Project SUPPORT was developed to address child conduct problems (i.e., disruptive, oppositional behaviors). Specifically, it was designed for individual families (mother and child(ren)) in which the mother had sought refuge at a woman's shelter because of domestic violence and at least one of her children was exhibiting clinical levels of conduct problems. The intervention includes two main components: providing instrumental and emotional support to the mother during her transition from the women's shelter and teaching the mother to implement a set of child management and nurturing skills that have been shown to be effective in the treatment of clinical levels of conduct problems.
Contact name: Ernest N. Jouriles, Ph.D.
Affiliation/Agency: Southern Methodist University
Email: ejourile@smu.edu
Phone: 214-363-3162
Fax: 214-768-0821
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