The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare

This document was printed from the website of the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), which you can access at http://www.cebc4cw.org/

Project SUPPORT - Summary

Scientific Rating:
2
Supported by Research Evidence
See scale of 1-5
Scientific Rating:
2 - Supported by Research Evidence

Relevance to Child Welfare Rating:
1
Relevance to Child Welfare Rating:
1 - High

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:(The information in this program outline is provided by the program representative and edited by the CEBC staff.)

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. Since Project SUPPORT is highly rated on the Scientific Rating Scale, information on available pre-implementation assessments, implementation tools, and fidelity measures was requested from the program representative. Please see the program's separate Implementation Information page for details.


Contact Information

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Contact name: Ernest N. Jouriles, PhD

Affiliation/Agency: Southern Methodist University

Email: ejourile@smu.edu

Phone: 214-363-3162

Fax: 214-768-0821



Detailed Report

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Date reviewed: June 2009 (Originally reviewed in March 2007)