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to study how interventions can prevent child maltreatment</li></ol> <article class="article" typeof="NewsArticle"> <header class="article-header"> <h1 property="headline" class="page-title entry-title">With $3.1 million NIH grant, Notre Dame psychologists to study how interventions can prevent child maltreatment</h1> <div class="meta-share-group"> <div class="meta"> <p class="publish-info"> <time property="datePublished" class="published" datetime="2024-11-18T07:30:00-05:00"> <span class="icon" data-icon="calendar">Published:</span> November 18, 2024</time> </p> <p class="author" property="author" typeof="Person"> <span class="icon" data-icon="user">Author:</span> <span property="name"><a href="/news/latest-news/authors/hailey-oppenlander/">Hailey Oppenlander</a></span> </p> <meta property="image" content="https://al.nd.edu/assets/595266/1600x630/valentino_miller_graff1200x.jpg"> <meta property="dateModified" content="2024-11-20 10:13:17 -0500"> <link property="publisher" 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On the left is Kristin Valentino, presenting as a woman with long brown hair smiles in a blue v-neck shirt. On the right is Laura Miller-Graff, presenting as a woman with long light brown hair smiles in a gray blazer."> <figcaption>Psychology professors Kristin Valentino, left, and Laura Miller-Graff are working together to help prevent or reduce child maltreatment at a critical point for development.</figcaption> </figure> <p>Each year, more than <a href="https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/cm2022.pdf#page=4">3 million children</a> are part of an investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect. Two psychologists at the University of Notre Dame are working together to lower that number.</p> <p>Professors <a href="https://psychology.nd.edu/people/laura-miller-graff/">Laura Miller-Graff</a> and <a href="https://psychology.nd.edu/people/kristin-valentino/">Kristin Valentino</a> have each developed a program to help prevent or reduce child maltreatment at a critical point for development — Miller-Graff during pregnancy, and Valentino during early childhood.</p> <p>Now, the two are bringing their programs together with a <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/YPNKKPwAgEWw69FP58K9ZA/project-details/10997537#similar-Projects">$3.1 million grant </a>from the National Institutes of Health.</p> <p>“This is a great example of what can happen when faculty members have the opportunity to collaborate and work closely with each other and generate innovative ideas together,” said Valentino, the William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families Collegiate Chair in the <a href="https://psychology.nd.edu/">Department of Psychology</a>.</p> <p>Over the next five years, the clinical trial will assess whether the prenatal and early childhood programs work in tandem to prevent child maltreatment.</p> <p>“This project represents, more broadly, ways that researchers like us could collaborate to really create some exciting synergies around things that have been developed independently,” Miller-Graff said. “Now, it can be brought together in an interesting way.”</p> <h2><strong>The power of collaboration</strong></h2> <p>As a graduate student, Miller-Graff studied a program for mothers and older children who were exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV), which is physical, sexual, or emotional abuse stemming from romantic relationships. As many as <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/intimate-partner-violence/about/index.html">40 percent of U.S. women</a> experience IPV in their lifetime, and it can have detrimental long-term effects on child development for children living in homes where it occurs. IPV is also one of the biggest risk factors for child maltreatment.</p> <p>Though the program was effective at reducing IPV and improving maternal and child outcomes, Miller-Graff wondered if earlier intervention could prevent the onset of chronic violence in the children’s lives.</p> <p>“That is really what got me interested in doing work in pregnancy, thinking about,<em> </em>‘OK, how do we set things better up from the start for families?’” she said.</p> <p>Miller-Graff, now a professor of psychology and peace studies at Notre Dame, worked with Dr. Kathryn Howell at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to adapt this program to specifically address the developmental needs and concerns of pregnant women. Known as the <a href="https://shaw.nd.edu/research/the-pregnant-moms-empowerment-program/">Pregnant Moms’ Empowerment Program</a> (PMEP), this five-session program works to reduce intimate partner violence among pregnant women, improve maternal mental health, and support early positive parenting practices with the goal of preventing subsequent child maltreatment.</p> <p>Valentino’s research takes an alternate approach by intervening in the early childhood years — another period when the risk of child abuse and neglect is elevated. The<em> </em>director of the<em> </em><a href="https://shaw.nd.edu/">William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families</a> developed the <a href="https://shaw.nd.edu/research/the-heart-to-heart-project/">Reminiscing and Emotion Training</a> (RET) program, a six-session intervention that gives mothers tools to improve their emotional support and response to their child’s needs.</p> <p>“This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate and be able to test both models together,” Valentino said. “We're hoping that receiving both interventions sort of has synergistic benefits for both mom and child.”</p> <h2><strong>Building connections</strong></h2> <p>With the support of the NIH grant, Miller-Graff and Valentino will commence their research by working with families in South Bend and Memphis, Tennessee.</p> <p>“I think one of the primary reasons this project was selected for funding was because it's offering a new approach to child maltreatment prevention, developmentally attuned at two different important critical stages — both prenatally and during early childhood,” Valentino said.</p> <p>The ability to study how families engage with multiple programs over longer periods is often limited in research. This trial, though, will focus on the same women who have already participated in a <a href="/news/latest-news/psychologist-receives-2-5-million-national-institutes-of-health-grant-to-launch-intervention-program-for-pregnant-women-exposed-to-violence/">previous NIH-funded clinical trial</a> of the PMEP and re-randomize them for participation in RET once their child is of age.</p> <p>“That's unusual to see in the research,” Miller-Graff said. “We're really excited to be able to continue to support families, and follow them over a longer period of time.”</p> <p>For Miller-Graff, the project is also a testament to the community built at the Shaw Center, which supports a number of programs for South Bend children and families.</p> <p>“Positive relationships are central to good research, but maintaining those relationships takes time, effort, and intention,” said Miller-Graff.</p> <p>Factors like housing instability, which often accompanies chronic family violence, can understandably make it more challenging for families to remain involved in programs over the long term.</p> <p>“One of the things that’s really special about being at Notre Dame is that we have such an outstanding community at the Shaw Center of staff members who have developed really amazing relationships with our families across projects,” she said. “Because of that community and support, we're uniquely equipped to follow — and remarkably successful in following and supporting — families over time.”</p> <p>For Valentino, who won the <a href="https://commonfund.nih.gov/TRA/recipients22">NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award</a> in 2022, the project’s focus on prevention makes it especially meaningful and impactful. Because anyone — not just clinical psychologists or licensed social workers — can be trained to offer the intervention, it has great potential for scalability.</p> <p>“One of my long-term goals is to be able to develop programs that can truly make a difference in the world and can prevent child maltreatment,” she said. “An important step along the way is to be able to assess the program rigorously in more than one clinical trial. 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