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by helenbonnick | August 15, 2014 · 9:58 am

An interview with Jane Evans, Parenting Specialist

I have been privileged to interview a number of researchers and practitioners for this blog, and am pleased today to be able to bring you this interview with Jane Evans.

I first met Jane on twitter, and then caught up with her properly at a conference on Adolescent Violence to Parents in Oxford last September. I knew her at that time for her work in the field of parenting, and specifically post-domestic violence: encouraging a greater awareness of the needs of children to be raised with kindness and compassion. Jane works as an independent trauma parenting specialist and trainer, and has won many plaudits for her book “How are you feeling today Baby Bear?” designed to help young children who have been living in ‘a stormy house’ explore their feelings.

Recently Jane’s work has broadened out to include the field of parent abuse; and I was interested to hear how she had made this transition. Continue reading →

Child to parent violence: round the world in a week

A lot more bits and pieces from around the world in the last weeks…..

Good to see the Daphne RCPV website is now up and running. You will find it here, with information about the project and research as a whole, conferences and training events linked to the programme, ways to get involved and a link to the RCPV blog. Recent posts cover the progress of the research in the different participating countries: Sweden, Spain, Bulgaria and Ireland. Continue reading →

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Tagged as Adolescent to parent violence, Amanda Holt, Child to parent violence, Daphne RCPV, Parent abuse, Rachel Condry

by helenbonnick | April 7, 2014 · 3:08 pm

Adolescent to Parent Violence: An open seminar from Edge Hill University and the British Society of Criminology

The majority of the parent abuse research in the UK has come out of the criminology discipline, and so it was fitting that the Criminology Research Group at Edge Hill University chose Adolescent to Parent Violence as the topic for the first open seminar in a new series sponsored by the British Society of Criminology. Three presentations: from Helen Baker, Simon Retford and Amanda Holt, brought us up to date with some of the current issues being considered. Continue reading →

Some book reviews

A couple of reviews for Amanda Holt’s text, Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse: Current Understandings in Research, Policy and Practice, have been brought to my attention recently.

Janet Jamieson has a review in the journal Youth Justice, and Sarah Galvani in Social Work Education: the international journal.

Both are very positive, commenting on the dearth of available literature, and drawing attention to the usefulness, to those from many backgrounds and fields of work, of the text itself.

Addressing parent abuse through Juvenile Family Courts in USA

This piece from the Orlando Sentinel on 4^thOctober, reporting on responses to parent abuse following the death of Rosemary Pate at the hands of her son, has popped up a number of times in the last week, cross-posted in different places. It was good to see the topic of parent abuse getting a good airing after an earlier item appeared in the same paper in a couple of months ago (see my post of 24^th August); and encouraging to see a call for early intervention to prevent abuse before it reaches this stage. Continue reading →

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Tagged as Amanda Holt, Brezina, Child to parent violence, domestic violence, early intervention, Family violence, Parent abuse, Rosemary Pate, Santa Clara Juvenile Domestic and Family Violence Court, Sarah Buel, Step Up

by helenbonnick | October 4, 2013 · 12:11 pm

Everybody Hurts: Parent abuse on Radio Sheffield

The top story on the Radio Sheffield breakfast programme yesterday morning (October 3rd) was to do with the launch of a support group for parents being abused by their children in the Sheffield area. Toby Foster gave a very sympathetic hearing to “Anne”, who established the group to reach out to parents in the same position as herself. She has a son, now 14, who has been violent towards first his sister and then herself and others since he was 7 years old. He now has a diagnosis of Aspergers, but Anne stressed that violence to parents was not only perpetrated by young people with health issues. Continue reading →

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Tagged as adolescent to parent abuse, Amanda Holt, Child to parent violence, Everybody Hurts, Parent abuse, Radio Sheffield, Toby Foster

by helenbonnick | August 5, 2013 · 8:57 am

A Police Response to Parent Abuse

When I undertook my Masters study in 2004 – 6, one of the people I interviewed was a police officer, who described his sense of frustration at the difficulties in responding to incidents where parent abuse could be clearly identified. Pretty much everything I had read online or in the literature had suggested that the police hadn’t a clue, sided with the young person, maybe arrested the parent and certainly had nothing useful to offer; so it was interesting to sit down with someone and hear the other side. He identified a system of adhoc responses depending on the awareness of the individual officer, and then nothing concrete to offer, nowhere to refer on to as there was no agency taking responsibility for meeting the needs of families where children’s violence to parents was an issue. Continue reading →

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Tagged as Amanda Holt, DASH, domestic abuse, domestic violence, Greater Manchester Police, MARAC, Parent abuse, Simon Retford, troubled families

by helenbonnick | March 21, 2013 · 4:44 pm

Emerging themes 1: CPV and IPV

In my last post I referred to the emergence of a number of themes through the day as we met last week in Nottingham. I want to return to one of these now, namely the issues around conceptualising child to parent violence as domestic violence.

This is something that has been covered by a number of people in the past (e.g. Holt or Hunter, Nixon and Parr), but it keeps re-emerging for a number of reasons. Firstly, much of the work being developed in Britain at the moment is taking place within agencies also dealing with adult intimate partner violence, forcing the issue as adjustments are made to approaches or expectations. Secondly, the change in definition of domestic violence within Britain to include perpetrators aged 16 upwards, has been hailed by some as a positive move, allowing the open discussion of the topic in a new way, and the recognition within policy of the reality of parent abuse. Continue reading →

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Tagged as Amanda Holt, Caroline Hunter, Child to parent violence, CPV, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, IPV, Judy Nixon, Julia Worms, Lynette Robinson, Parent abuse, Rachel Condry, restorative justice, Sadie Parr, Step Up

by helenbonnick | January 20, 2013 · 9:04 pm

Reading about adolescent to parent abuse

A couple of years ago, I briefly joined a reading group. I had been encouraged to believe that the discipline would enable me to find space in my life to explore books I might not otherwise choose to read. It worked – but unfortunately only for me in that particular group. As I stare at the monumental pile on my desk now, which includes books I purchased over five years ago, I feel rather contrite and certainly less judgmental towards my onetime comrades. Continue reading →

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Tagged as adolescent to parent abuse, Amanda Holt, J K Rowling, Parent abuse, The Casual Vacancy, University of Central Lancashire

Tag Archives: Amanda Holt

An interview with Jane Evans, Parenting Specialist

Child to parent violence: round the world in a week

Adolescent to Parent Violence: An open seminar from Edge Hill University and the British Society of Criminology

Some book reviews

Addressing parent abuse through Juvenile Family Courts in USA

Everybody Hurts: Parent abuse on Radio Sheffield

A Police Response to Parent Abuse

Emerging themes 1: CPV and IPV

Reading about adolescent to parent abuse

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