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Child Abduction

Parent and Child Functioning Following Return

Rex Forehand, PhD

University of Georgia, Department of Psychology, Athens, Georgia

Nicholas Long, PhD

University of Arkansas for Medical Science

Carolyn Zogg, BA

Child Find of America, Inc.

Elizabeth Parrish, BA

Child Find of America, Inc.

The functioning of 17 children who had been abducted by one parent but subsequently returned was examined. The parent to whom the child was returned completed a behavior rating scale on the child for each of three time periods: pre-abduction, immediately post-abduction, and follow-up (the present time). The parents also completed a measure regarding the coping strategy they utilized while the child was missing and a measure of their own functioning at each of three times: pre-abduction, during the abduction, and follow-up.

The results indicated that the child was rated as functioning worse immediately post-abduction than at pre-abduction and at follow-up was functioning between that reported at pre-abduction and post-abduction. However, the level of maladjustment was not in the severe range at any of the assessments. Parents reported using a problem-focused or action style of coping. Parents also reported that their psychological functioning decreased during abduction and then improved at follow-up. Again, functioning was not in the severe range at any assessment. Variables such as age at the time of abduction and length of abduction were only minimumally related to parent or child functioning.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 28, No. 7, 311-316 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288902800703
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N. Long, R. Forehand, and C. Zogg
Preventing Parental Child Abduction: Analysis of a National Project
Clinical Pediatrics, September 1, 1991; 30(9): 549 - 554.
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