Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Child Maltreatment and Child Maltreatment Prevention

Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Child Maltreatment and Child Maltreatment Prevention

This paper presents an agent‐based model that simulates the dynamics of child maltreatment and child maltreatment prevention. The developed model follows the principles of complex systems science and explicitly models a community and its families with multi‐level factors across the social ecology. Each agent includes behavioral/cognitive modeling to account for the behavioral/cognitive process ...

Cognitive Modeling for Agent-based Simulation of Child Maltreatment

This paper extends previous work to develop cognitive modeling for agent-based simulation of child maltreatment (CM). The developed model is inspired from parental efficacy, parenting stress, and the theory of planned behavior. It provides an explanatory, process-oriented model of CM and incorporates causality relationship and feedback loops from different factors in the social ecology in order...

An Agent-Based Model for Studying Child Maltreatment and Child Maltreatment Prevention

This paper presents an agent-based model that simulates the dynamics of child maltreatment and child maltreatment prevention. The developed model follows the principles of complex systems science and explicitly models a community and its families with multi-level factors and interconnections across the social ecology. This makes it possible to experiment how different factors and prevention str...

MALTREATMENT (CHILD) The Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

The maltreatment of children and adolescents is a problem that reaches well beyond the victims and perpetrators directly affected by these behaviours. It affects the lives of professionals who are charged to care for the health and well-being of families and children, as well as the government officials and private citizens who are concerned with the quality of life in their communities. Child ...

The future of child maltreatment prevention.