https://aub.ie/MilitaryREACH-Kaye2021

Kaye, M. P., Aronson, K. R., & Perkins, D. F. (2022). Factors predicting family violence revictimization among Army families with child maltreatment. Child Maltreatment, 27(3), 423-433. https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595211008997

This study examined how individual (e.g., parents’ mental and physical health problems), family (e.g., history of family violence, marital problems), and community risk factors (e.g., feelings of isolation, neighborhood issues) and treatment factors (e.g., referrals to services, sessions completed) were associated with recurring child maltreatment (i.e., revictimization). Data were drawn from closed case files of 134 Army families with confirmed child maltreatment who received services through the Family Advocacy Program. All risk and treatment factors were examined individually to determine which were related to revictimization. Then, another analysis grouped the risk factors into levels of influence based on the ecological model (i.e., individual, family, community) to examine which level of influence was most salient in predicting revictimization comparatively while also accounting for treatment factors. Community risk factors and poorer treatment compliance (i.e., a lower dosage of services) were associated with revictimization.

https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595211008997

Child maltreatment
Children
Parents
Programming

Army

Active Duty

Military families

Childhood (birth - 12 yrs)
Adolescence (13 - 17 yrs)
Adulthood (18 yrs & older)

Longitudinal Study
Quantitative Study
Secondary Analysis

Kaye, Miranda P., Aronson, Keith R., Perkins, Daniel F.

The Army Family Advocacy Program (Army FAP) strives to prevent family violence and intervene to reduce the deleterious effects of exposure to family violence. This paper examines the individual, family, community, and treatment factors associated with family violence revictimization. Case files of 134 families with substantiated child maltreatment and associated Army FAP interventions that closed in 2013 were coded across risk and protective factors and intervention characteristics and were matched to Army Central Registry files to identify revictimization rates through 2017. Revictimization, experienced by 23% of families, was predicted by community risk and reduced by intervention dose. With the high rates of relocations, housing or neighborhood issues, and the isolation military families experience and the relationship of these concerns to repeated family violence, identifying the impact of community risk is particularly important. Similarly, research that elucidates the effective treatment components is needed.

SAGE Publications

Article
REACH Publication

The Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, The Pennsylvania State University, MPK
The Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, The Pennsylvania State University, KRA
The Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, The Pennsylvania State University, DFP
Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education, The Pennsylvania State University, DFP