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Wakefield CPV forum presentations now available

Last week’s child to parent abuse practitioners’ forum in Wakefield received very positive reviews from those who were able to attend. The event was an opportunity for practitioners to share good practice in the development and delivery of child-to-parent abuse services. It was also an opportunity to hear from academics and specialists about the latest developments in the field. For those who weren’t able to be there, the presentations are available online till the end of the month.

The tremendous increase in events such as this over the last year demonstrates the growing awareness of the issue, the range of responses around the country, and the determination to continue learning from each other. It is a great testament to the commitment and energy of all those involved.

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Understanding parent abuse within a child protection framework

We hear a lot about the cross-over between domestic abuse and child to parent violence (CPV), but significantly less about how CPV is to be understood within a child abuse and protection framework. This is an area of work dear to my own heart, and one that has also been the focus of some research in the Netherlands. Recently Dutch researcher, Dr Remy Vink, was tweeting about a conference she had attended, and she kindly agreed to be interviewed about it for the blog.

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A letter from the RCPV steering group

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to attend the Brighton & Hove Responding to Child to Parent Violence RCPV Conference.

Child to Parent Violence: European Perspectives

Wednesday 28th & Thursday 29th January 2015

University of Brighton, England

It would be fantastic if you could join us in sharing the learning and experiences of how we have been working with Child to Parent Violence in England, Bulgaria, Ireland, Spain and Sweden. Brighton & Hove City Council with the University of Brighton, Rise & AudioActive have worked together in this European funded initiative.  The conference will give you the chance to explore the subject in relevant and interactive ways, hearing from and talking with experts from across England and Europe. Please download the registration form here.

The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Conference is 27 October 2014. Go to the project website to download the flyers for the conference and abstract call, to find more information, or to register for the conference.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference.

With kind regards,

Michelle Pooley

On behalf of the RCPV Steering Group

 

 

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Keeping it in the news

Please note that the details of the Hull story have been amended since this was first posted.

In my last post I ruminated on the importance of keeping the momentum going, so that the issue of parent abuse does not get forgotten or move out of the public consciousness. The last weeks have certainly seen a number of news articles, training events and publications that have contributed to maintaining a good level of awareness. Continue reading →

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Child to Parent Violence: European Perspectives

I am pleased to post details and the call for abstracts for the final conference of the Daphne Responding to Child to Parent Violence Project, to be held over two days in Brighton in January 2015. This has been a two year action research project comparing two separate responses to CPV and examining the development of awareness and work across five different European countries.

The conference is free to attend, but registration through the project website is essential. Continue reading →

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Leeds Practitioners’ Forum on Child-to-Parent Violence

I was very disappointed not to be able to attend the Practitioners’ Forum at Leeds University, but thrilled to present this review of the day from Dr Sam Lewis, which also gives links to all the presentations.

On 15th July a Practitioners’ Forum on Child-to-Parent Violence (CPV) was held in the School of Law at the University of Leeds. The event, which was organised by the University’s Centre for Criminal Justice Studies (CCJS), Leeds Youth Offending Services (YOS) and Wakefield Troubled Families Scheme, attracted over 100 delegates from different agencies and areas. Continue reading →

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Daphne RCPV Conference in Galway

The recent conference in Galway, hosted by the National University of Ireland in Galway, was an opportunity to hear about progress on the RCPV project and to meet the participants from around Europe, to learn more about NVR, and to meet practitioners from Ireland in particular who are already engaged in work with families experiencing violence from their children. Continue reading →

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A family therapy intervention in Portugal

Soon after viewing the Channel 5 documentary last week, I received this paper, from Neusa Patuleia, a clinical psychologist / family therapist in Portugal. (De)constructing Child-to-Parent Violence, discusses a particular therapeutic intervention at a residential establishment in that country. Continue reading →

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My Violent Child: the documentary.

First broadcast 18th June 2014 on Channel 5. Available until 13 June 2015

There has been a very mixed response to the documentary about child to parent violence screened on Channel 5 on Wednesday June 18th.

The programme followed three families from around the country, with boys ranging in age from 7 – 14 years. In each case the child had been physically and verbally abusive to his mother for many years and also, in some cases, to other members of the family or within school. The violence was extreme – and graphically depicted – including punching, kicking and hair pulling, strangling, property destruction and apparently an incident with a meat cleaver. While each family had found some form of assistance, it was made clear that this remains a problematic issue, with specialist support not easy to find, and at the end while some progress was being made, we were told that Brett’s mother risked losing the respite care that she had found so important. Continue reading →

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More Spanish Journal Articles

It is exciting to see that there is so much work going on around the world at the moment, with 2 more papers from Spain published this month.

Lourdes Contreras and Carmen Cano, in Adolescents who assault their parents: a different family profile of young offenders?, (Violence and Victims, Volume 29, Number 3, 2014, pp. 393-406), consider differences in family characteristics of children offending within the family (CPV) and those committing other types of offence; finding factors such as family size, type of household, parenting style and patterns of interactions differing between the two groups. This was from a sample of 654 young offenders. Continue reading →

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