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Children of prisoners: arrest
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Place of publication:
- London
This video shows how children are affected when a parent or adult family member is arrested. The video shows the impact of an arrest, especially when it happens at home. Families talk from their own experience about the traumatic and sometimes lasting effect on children. The video helps social care staff to consider what they could do to support children, their parents and families.
“Systemic trauma”: the impact on parents whose children have experienced sexual abuse
- Authors:
- KILROY Sarah J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 23(5), 2014, pp.481-503.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article examines the impact on parents in an Irish context whose children have experienced sexual abuse and aims to explore the pathways to distress. This is in order to understand what factors facilitate or hinder parents from supporting their child to the best of their ability, given that parental support is a crucial moderating factor in children’s recoveries. Semistructured interviews were carried out with 13 parents in this context and analyzed using a grounded theory methodology. The overall concept that emerged was termed “systemic trauma” and was composed of eight categories that help to explain the pathways of impact for parents. This model can help clinicians understand and respond to the needs of parents in the aftermath of CSA. (Publisher abstract)
Psychosocial factors influencing competency of children's statements on sexual trauma
- Authors:
- KIM Tae Kyung, CHOI Soul, SHIN Yee Jin
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 35(3), March 2011, pp.173-179.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
A based in South Korea, this study aimed to assess children's competence to state their traumatic experience, and to determine psychosocial factors influencing this, such as emotional factors of children and parents and trauma-related variables. The research used a sample of children aged 8 to 13 years who visited a children's centre providing medical treatment, psychiatric diagnosis, management and education of parents whose children were sexually abused. Following an assessment of plausibility on the allegation of sexual abuse, 189 children whose allegations were judged to be likely were included in the study. Information was gathered from parents using questionnaires and from children through completion of a range of psychosocial measures. The results showed that children with parents who showed supportive parental responses or were less depressive were able to testify better than those with unsupportive, depressed parents. The study also found that the competence of children's statements was not significantly related to traumatic symptoms. The researchers concluded that in Korean child sex abuse victims the competence of statements is related to parental emotional states and support rather than children's factors such as psychopathology or age.
Caregiver substance use and trauma exposure in young children
- Authors:
- SPRANG Ginny, CLARK James J., STATON-TINDALL Michele
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 91(4), October 2010, pp.401-407.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
This paper focuses on child exposure to traumatic events that occur with parental methamphetamine production and use. The study examined the differential experiences of 3 groups of children who were involved in the child welfare system: children living in homes with caregivers who had used methamphetamine; those living in homes with caregivers who used other drugs; and those in homes where there was no evidence of caregiver substance misuse. Data relating to caregiver substance use, child trauma exposure, and time in out-of-home care was collected from the electronic records of a random sample of 1127 children selected from the public child welfare log of open cases in 2005-2006. The results indicated that caregiver methamphetamine use was a robust correlate of trauma exposure, with interpersonal violence being the most prevalent form of trauma exposure. Practice and policy implications are presented for a wide range of professionals working with these children.
Healing the hidden hurt
- Author:
- PRITCHETT Amanda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 72(3), March 1999, pp.43-44.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
New research shows that many children suffer emotional distress even after a relatively minor accident. Explains the research and the literature aimed at helping practitioners deal with these emotions.
Child extrafamilial sexual abuse: predicting parent and child functioning
- Authors:
- MANION Ian, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 22(12), December 1998, pp.1285-1304.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Evaluates the emotional and behavioural adjustment of parents and children within 3 months and 1 year after the discovery of extrafamilial sexual abuse. Showed that mothers, fathers and sexually abused children experience clinically significant effects both initially and at 12 months after disclosure. Child age and gender also significantly contributed to the prediction of many of the child outcome measures. Avoidant symptoms, child's internalising behaviour and mothers' initial emotional functioning were significant predictors of longer-term emotional functioning. Results emphasise the need to address children's abuse-related attributions and underscore the need to expand our focus beyond the child victims to the traumatised families.
Supporting parents and carers of children and young people affected by sexual exploitation: a toolkit for professionals
- Author:
- THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- The Children's Society
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 19
- Place of publication:
- London
This toolkit offer suggestions for professionals who are supporting parents and carers of children who have been affected by sexual exploitation. It explores the impact of child sexual exploitation (CSE) on parents and carers, barriers to parents and carers accessing support, and provides practical tips for professionals when working with parents and carers. It also provides links to useful resources, tools, organisations and services that can provide support for parents and carers, as well as organisations that can support professionals in their work with parents and carers. The toolkit has been has produced by The Children’s Society as part of the National CSAE Prevention Programme for England and Wales, in partnership with Victim Support and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC). (Edited publisher abstract)
Identifying and addressing parental trauma and behavioral health need: The role of the child welfare system
- Authors:
- CAO Yiwen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Public Child Welfare, 13(3), 2019, pp.265-284.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Parents involved with the child welfare system often have been exposed to traumatic events throughout their lives and have behavioral health service needs. Although connecting parents to trauma-informed behavioral health care has potential to reduce the risk of recurring maltreatment, limited research has focused on child welfare system capacity to respond to parents’ needs in a trauma-informed way. Based on a quantitative survey and secondary analysis of qualitative focus group data, this study examines child welfare and behavioral health workers’ perceptions of a county child welfare agency’s readiness for understanding, assessing and addressing parental trauma. Findings suggest that child welfare staff understand how parental trauma impacts parenting, but do not perceive that the system was ready to adequately assess, and address parents’ needs in a trauma-informed way. Lack of regional behavioral health services and integration between child welfare and adult behavioral health systems were noted to be major barriers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Affect and emotion in a parent's engagement with statutory child-protection services: navigating stigma and 'identity assault'
- Authors:
- QUICK Don, SCOTT Anne Lorraine
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 49(2), 2019, pp.485-502.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This paper draws on the sociology of affect and emotion to analyse one parent’s story of a child-protection enquiry, the removal of her son and the subsequent family reunification. Using a methodological process of ‘productive disconcertion’, which draws on similar theories of affect and emotion to those used in the analysis, the authors argue that statutory child-welfare services operate within an emotional regime in which parents of clients are positioned as passive and required to be co-operative. Responses such as intense parental anger can generate an interactive cycle of deepening conflict with child-protection workers, but can also be protective for the parent, supporting the individual’s sense of agency and a positive identity. Practitioners should seek to work with, rather than in opposition to, such parents, thus enabling the parent to be successful is his or her attempts to move beyond a cycle of traumatisation, stigma and re-traumatisation. (Edited publisher abstract)
Exploring the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and hope
- Authors:
- BAXTER Michael A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 26(8), 2017, pp.948-956.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study explores the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and hope, a convenience sample of caregivers bringing in children for medical investigation of child abuse at a regional child advocacy centre were surveyed for adverse childhood experiences and dispositional hope. Hope in this sample had a significant negative correlation to the adverse childhood experiences subscale “abuse” (r = –.19; p < .05). The relationship between hope and the other adverse childhood experiences subscales “neglect” (r = –.14) and “dysfunctional family” (r = –.16) was not statistically significant. An analysis of variance was performed to determine if caregivers who have experienced both sexual and physical abuse (M = 29.67; SD = 15.96) have lower hope scores compared to those caregivers who have experienced neither physical nor sexual abuse (M = 42.64; SD = 18.44). This analysis (F (1, 84) = 5.28; p < 0.05) showed that caregivers who experienced both physical and sexual abuse scored significantly lower on hope compared to their counterparts who experienced no adverse events, with an estimated effect size of moderate strength (d = 0.70). Higher adverse childhood experiences scores are associated with lower hope. This result was especially true for those adult caregivers who reported experiencing both physical and sexual abuse when compared to adults who did not experience either form of child trauma. While the empirical literature continues to demonstrate the negative consequences of adverse childhood experiences across the life span, hope offers a compelling new line of inquiry in child maltreatment research especially for studies targeting prevention or intervention. (Edited publisher abstract)