Reducing Problematic Parenting Behaviors, Child Neglect, and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect.

Tom Kirsch, Simone Munsch, Andrea Meyer, Marc Schmid

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Article in Child maltreatment, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Tom KirschDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Clinics Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0000-8989-6867

Simone MunschDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6187-8912

Andrea MeyerDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.

Marc SchmidDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Clinics Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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Abstract

Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) has been shown to effectively reduce social worker-assessed child neglect and child problems. However, no research has examined the effects of MST-CAN on parenting behaviors or identified which intervention targets are associated with reductions in child problems. This study examined changes in child internalizing and externalizing problems, parental psychological control, neglectful parenting, and social worker-assessed neglect, accounting for therapist effects, and assessed how parenting and neglect predict child outcomes in 143 parent-child dyads in Switzerland (mean child age = 10.5 years, 54.1% boys). Multilevel regression showed significant reductions in social worker-assessed neglect (b = 14.10, SE = 3.49,

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Child AbuseParentingChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansMaleParent-Child RelationsSwitzerlandchild neglectinternalizing and externalizing problemsmultisystemic therapy for child abuse and neglectneglectful parentingpsychological control

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PMID40975809

DOI10.1177/10775595251381267

PMCPMC13264655

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