Tag Archives: Adolescent to parent violence

by | June 15, 2011 · 9:12 pm

Exciting training opportunities!

Two more training opportunities have come to my attention recently.

Eddie Gallagher will be visiting the UK at the beginning of September 2011, before heading off to Spain for an international conference. He is inviting offers for training workshops particularly.  He can be contacted at gallagher@aanet.com.au

Lynette Robinson, of Alternative Restoratives, is organising a professional awareness raising conference regarding adolescent to parent violence on September 22nd 2011, in the north of England. Lynette comes from a youth justice background where restorative justice has been used for some time, and she has done some interesting work in applying this approach to families experiencing parent abuse. More information at http://www.alternativerestoratives.co.uk/teen_violence.htm

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by | May 14, 2011 · 1:42 pm

You wait around for years and then two come along together!

Five years ago, when I first began seriously investigating parent abuse, the studies and research papers were largely coming out of Canada, Australia and the USA. The statistics available came from relatively few older studies and were considered unreliable because of the ways they were obtained – the types of questions asked, who they were asked of, numbers involved etc. Nevertheless, they had served to highlight that this was a real issue and one which would not go away. Questions were being asked: how big a problem was this really? Was it confined to certain ethnic or socioeconomic groups, what were the causes, and what sorts of help were effective? Importantly, another question was emerging, as to how we should understand the phenomenon, from a sociological / feminist point of view – was it linked with domestic violence, or with youth crime and delinquency? Continue reading →

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