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Children experiencing domestic violence: a research review
- Author:
- STANLEY Nicky
- Publisher:
- Research in Practice
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 154p.
- Place of publication:
- Dartington
This research in practice review explores the evidence about children’s experience of domestic violence and the role of multiagency service responses and interventions. It details findings around prevalence and patterns of abuse, effects on children’s development, and the interaction with parenting and children’s health and well-being, as well as looking at violence in young people’s intimate relationships. The review highlights the fact that almost a quarter of young adults witnessed domestic violence as children. Their emotional and behavioural responses included: fear, anxiety, worry, anger and aggression. They can feel isolated and experience a strong sense of stigma; many take on caring responsibilities. The stigma and secrecy associated with domestic violence, and fear that children may be removed, means that many families are resistant to engaging with social care services. The evidence reveals domestic violence as a sustained process that occurs most often alongside social and economic disadvantage. The stresses of these disadvantages interact with other family problems, including poor mental health, substance misuse and homelessness, to produce cumulative harm to children’s health and well-being. The review suggests interventions need to take place at a number of levels and address a range of issues.
Young people's and carers' perspectives on the mental health needs of looked-after adolescents
- Author:
- STANLEY Nicky
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 12(3), August 2007, p.258–267.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
While the mental health needs of looked-after young people have been described in a number of clinical studies, the views of looked-after adolescents themselves concerning their mental health needs have only rarely been reported. This study used focus groups to elicit the ideas and experiences of looked-after young people in two local authorities in England. Front-line carers in the region were also surveyed. Young people and carers were agreed in highlighting the damaging effects of the discontinuity and change experienced in the looked-after system. Young people emphasized the importance of exercising choice and control when seeking and receiving support and identified the value of positive role models provided by ‘survivors’ of the care system. Carers reported high levels of risk behaviour, particularly self-harm, among young people in children's homes. These differing perspectives need to be openly acknowledged and negotiated within care settings in order that relevant and accessible therapeutic and support services can be offered to looked-after adolescents.
Parents' perspectives on young suicide
- Author:
- STANLEY Nicky
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 19(4), September 2005, pp.304-315.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Strategies for the prevention of adolescent suicide are frequently designed to identify those young people who represent a high risk in order that services and support can be effectively targeted. This study explored the experiences of parents who had lost a child through suicide. The findings suggest that the range of behaviours perceived by parents was too broad and diverse to allow for a checklist approach to the identification of risk. The parents' responses did produce some valuable reflections on their experiences of professional support as well as some key messages on parenting which could be disseminated to all parents of adolescents.
Out of the loop
- Author:
- STANLEY Nicky
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.4.04, 2004, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the separation of children's and adult's services implied in the Children Bill. Argues that children whose parents have mental health problems might not be well served by the separation. Reports on research by the University of Hull which surveyed 500 health and social care professionals.
What young people want
- Author:
- STANLEY Nicky
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.8.02, 2002, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes a research study in which looked-after young people gave their views of the kind of support they need to ensure good mental health.
User-practitioner transactions in the new culture of community care
- Author:
- STANLEY Nicky
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 29(3), June 1999, pp.417-435.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article describes the findings of a research project which examined the views and practice of social workers undertaking assessments in one local authority following the implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. While the assessors expressed dissatisfaction with some aspects of the new system of care management, overall they appeared to be taking the new culture on board. The user-practitioner transactions observed suggest that those users who were able to articulate their own needs forcefully were most likely to be able to exercise choice. It is argued that the new culture of community care embodies 'consumer choice' rather than 'user choice'.
Domestic violence and child abuse: developing social work practice
- Author:
- STANLEY Nicky
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 2(3), August 1997, pp.135-145.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examines recent research studies which seek to alert practitioners to the links between domestic violence and child abuse. Explores the nature of the relationship between these two forms of violence and the differing ideological contexts in the United States and the United Kingdom in which this work has been sited.
Parental mental health and child welfare: reviews of policy and professional education
- Authors:
- STANLEY Nicky, COX Pat
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 158p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental health has been the focus of much recent policy development accompanied by increasing awareness of the impact of mental illness, not only on those who experience it, but also on family members, including children, and wider communities. This knowledge review examines existing knowledge and practice in health and social care services regarding parental mental health and child welfare. New guidelines for health and social care staff working with adults and children in a range of settings will be produced. It presents the results of searches of policy and searches of guidance on professional education, to ascertain whether, how and to what extent knowledge, structures, models, skills and values for working with parents with mental health problems and their children are addressed in policy and in professional education. The aims and objectives of these reviews were established through a process of consultation with SCIE and the main body of work was undertaken between December 2006 and September 2007 with revisions added in response to reviewers’ comments early in 2008. The reviews aim to be transparent and accessible in both description of process and presentation of findings, and fit for purpose in progressing the larger review of parental mental health and child welfare.
Roadmap evaluation: final report
- Authors:
- STANLEY Nicky, et al
- Publishers:
- Women's Aid, SafeLives
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 279
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Findings of a four-year evaluation of the Roadmap Programme, exploring how domestic abuse support services in the UK can become more accessible to those that need them. Women’s Aid Federation England (WAFE) and SafeLives (SL) collaborated over five years (2016-21) to develop and implement the Roadmap Programme which aimed to transform the lives of women and girls through systemic change to policy, practice and commissioning by promoting early intervention and reducing the prevalence, impact and tolerance of domestic violence and abuse (DVA). The evaluation, which was carried out between 2017 and 2021, involved interviews and surveys about the experiences of 300 women and 70 children affected by domestic violence and abuse, spanning five sites across England. Researchers found that survivors of domestic abuse valued services that were survivor-centred and enabled them to choose the pace and type of support they received, and that many needed help with parenting as well as support in their own right. When direct support was provided for children who had lived with domestic abuse, it could assist their mood, sleep, physical health and reduce their fear and anger. The study also found examples of children who received support from Roadmap services successfully navigating key transitions in their lives. The changes achieved by services for women and children generated considerable social value. This was enhanced by the use of volunteers – many of whom were survivors – including those who volunteered as Women’s Aid Ask Me Ambassadors, who provide advice to women experiencing domestic abuse in their local communities. Roadmap staff also provided training for frontline workers who encountered domestic abuse in their work. This training improved professionals’ knowledge and confidence in responding to domestic abuse and staff employed in benefits offices, housing and children’s social care benefited from this training. However, health services were less likely to take up the training and were less likely to work collaboratively with Roadmap services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Evaluation of the NSPCC Speak out Stay safe programme: final report
- Authors:
- STANLEY Nicky, et al
- Publisher:
- NSPCC
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 88
- Place of publication:
- London
Findings of an independent evaluation to examine the Speak out Stay safe (SOSS) programme’s impact on children’s understanding of abuse and harm and their help-seeking behaviour. SOSS is the NSPCC’s safeguarding programme for primary schools across the UK and Channel Islands. It aims to help children understand abuse in all its forms and ensure they know how to access support from a trusted adult or Childline, if they need it. The evaluation recruited 40 UK schools due to receive the SOSS programme comparing them with 34 UK schools that had not received SOSS in the last two years. It also captures the experiences of children, teachers, volunteers and staff participating in the programme, including how the programme’s safeguarding messages were perceived. The research confirmed there is a need for SOSS. The majority of primary school children have a good understanding of what abusive behaviour looks like and which trusted adults they can speak to. However, there are gaps in pupils’ knowledge, particularly around neglect and sexual abuse. Children’s knowledge of Childline and willingness to confide in a trusted adult also have scope to improve. SOSS has multiple benefits for children. The SOSS programme was responsible for: improving children’s understanding of the five different forms of abuse (ages 7-11); helping children to identify at least one trusted adult they could speak to (ages 7-11); increasing children’s recall of the Childline number (ages 5-11); encouraging children who were initially the most reluctant to speak out, to feel they could confide in a trusted adult (ages 5-7). However, the research also found that SOSS appeared to have a smaller impact on the help-seeking behaviours of pupils aged 5-7, compared to 7-to 11-year-olds. (Edited publisher abstract)