Brief Child Abuse Potential Inventory
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2005
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Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Abstract
Ondersma, Chaffin, Mullins, and LeBreton developed the Brief Child Abuse Potential Inventory (BCAP) in 2005 as a short version of Milner’s CAPI screening instrument. Because CAPI is the most widely used and thoroughly researched measure of parental child abuse risk, Ondersma and team wanted to enhance the tool by creating a version that reduces participant burden and time, simplifies the scoring process, and increases its applicability. BCAP is a 33-item screening tool with 24 abuse risk scales and 9 validity scales. Whereas the CAPI takes 15-20 minutes to complete, the BCAP only takes 5 minutes. Ondersma and team validated the BCAP in 2005 and found that the BCAP and CAPI demonstrated similar patterns of external correlates. The BCAP was further proven that it may be useful as a time-efficient screener for abuse risk. To access the BCAP, interested parties should purchase copies from Psytec of the full version of the CAPI equivalent to the number of brief versions they would like to administer. The CAPI is a proprietary measure and therefore the BCAP is not available for separate purchase and cannot be disseminated independently. (CVR Abstract)
Description
Cost: Yes
Training: Yes
Number of Items: 33
Training: Yes
Number of Items: 33
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Keywords
Child Abuse, Assessment Tool, Purpose: Prediction, Administration Method: Self-Administered, Population: Adults, Domain: Child Abuse, Domain: Neglect, Domain: Child Maltreatment, Domain: Emotional Distress
Citation
Ondersma, S. (2008). Brief child abuse potential inventory. In C. M. Renzetti & J. L. Edleson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of interpersonal violence (Vol. 1, pp. 82-83). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781412963923.n53