Concurrent Treatment of Substance Abuse and Child Maltreatment

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Conditions studied: Substance Use, Child Maltreatment

In brief

The co-occurrence of child maltreatment and parental substance-use problems is a major public health problem with serious consequences for children, parents, families, and the community at large. The need for effective dual treatment of caregiver substance abuse and child maltreatment is unquestionable, but there is a dearth of controlled treatment outcome studies with substance-using parents who have engaged in child maltreatment. This project examines two evidence-based treatments-Contingency Management for substance-use problems and Pathways Triple P parenting intervention to improve parenting for prevention of child-maltreatment recurrence. These two systematic interventions are being tested in the context of traditional outpatient treatment for substance-use problems.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02774525

Run by

University of South Carolina

People needed

200

Starts

2013-04-01

Expected to finish

2020-01-31

Last updated by the study team

2021-05-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• open child protective services case for child maltreatment
• beginning intensive outpatient treatment for drug or alcohol use problem
• at least one child 2-8 years of age

You may not qualify if…

• not primary custodial parent for child 2-8 years of age
• serious mental illness
• residing outside the two participating counties

Where it is running

• University of South Carolina Parenting & Family Res Center — Columbia, South Carolina, United States

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