ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Parent Version

Date

2009

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Publisher

Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal

Abstract

In 2009, ISPCAN collaborated with UNICEF, the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence against Children, the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, and the World Health Organization to develop the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tools (ICAST). The ICAST is a measure to assess child abuse prevalence and frequency, and is used worldwide in various countries. There are three versions of the ICAST tool: a child version for ages 11-18 (ICAST-C), a parent version (ICAST-P) and a young adults’ retrospective version (ICAST-R). The questionnaires and manuals were updated in 2015, and are currently available in English, Russian and Spanish. ICAST-P (Parent) collects data about discipline behaviors of the parents directed toward a specific child. The ICAST-P is an interview administered to parents or caregivers and consists of 57 items that ask about the children’s exposure to violence in the home. The assessment contains questions on the methods used by parents and/or caregivers to discipline the child or adolescent, as well as the attitudes adopted to solve behavioral problems and the frequency of omissions and/or aggressions by respondents. The tool can be completed by the participants themselves or by a practitioner. The tool was validated in 2009 by researchers in 11 countries and demonstrated that the instrument can be used in a broad range of cultures and languages with low rates of missing data and moderate to high internal consistency. (CVR Abstract)

Description

Cost: Yes
Training: Yes
Number of Items: 57

Keywords

Child Abuse, Screening Tool, Purpose: Detection, Administration Method: Self-Administered, Administration Method: Practitioner-Administered, Population: Adults, Domain: Child Abuse, Domain: Physical Abuse, Domain: Verbal Abuse, Domain: Emotional Abuse, Domain: Physical Violence, Domain: Emotional Violence

Citation

Runyan, D. K., Dunne, M. P., Zolotor, A. J., Madrid, B., Jain, D., Gerbaka, B., … Youssef, R. M. (2009). The development and piloting of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool—Parent version (ICAST-P). Child Abuse & Neglect, 33(11), 826–832. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2009.09.006 

URI

https://www.ispcan.org/learn/icast-abuse-screening-tools/
 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11990/2155

DOI

Collections

Screening and Assessment Collection