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by helenbonnick | July 25, 2014 · 9:56 am

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 15^th 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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Tagged as Adolescent to parent violence, Ann Ramsden, Anne-Marie Harris, APV, Child to parent violence, CPV, Do it Different, Dr Amanda Holt, Dr Sam Lewis, Jenny Bright, Leeds PACT, Professor Sarah Galvani, Rosalie Ryrie Foundation, VAWG strategy, Wakefield Troubled Families Scheme, Youth Justice Board

by helenbonnick | June 30, 2014 · 3:02 pm

Daphne RCPV Conference in Galway

The r ecent 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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by helenbonnick | December 17, 2013 · 9:13 am

News from the 2013 Youth Justice Convention

The Youth Justice Convention, hosted over two days in Birmingham, UK, at the end of November, included this year a seminar on children’s violence to parents (CPV). The convention is an annual event – this was the fourteenth – and is an opportunity to debate and discuss the latest youth justice policy developments. All the seminars are archived online and can be accessed here. (Update 2017: these videos don’t seem to be available any longer)

The CPV seminar, number 20 in the archive, was chaired by Paula Wilcox, with Martyn Stoner of Break4Change, and Paul Morris and Vicky Hodgson, from Hull Youth Offending Service, where a Step Up project has been piloted. Each gave a presentation of their project with a discussion at the end about differences and similarities. Continue reading →

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Tagged as Break4Change, children's violence to parents, CPV, Martyn Stoner, Paul Morris, Paula Wilcox, Step Up, Vicky Hodgson, Youth Justice Convention

by helenbonnick | November 25, 2013 · 2:58 pm

Parent Abuse: the victim / perpetrator problem

When I speak with people about children’s violence to parents, the question of terminology regularly raises its head: How helpful is it to talk about ‘victim’ and ‘perpetrator’ in cases of parent abuse? So this post has been in the making for some time, but was finally brought into being after I was sent a link to a piece in the Sheffield Star last week. It may be lacking a few references so please feel free to comment on this with links to relevant articles.

The news piece itself is very clear in identifying the 20 year old man as the perpetrator of violence, and the mother as the victim. We may agree or not that the judge overstepped the mark in his summing up; but read through to the comments stream and a dissenting voice emerges – as well as a reminder not to jump to conclusions without knowing all the circumstances. Continue reading →

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Tagged as Boys to Men, Child to parent violence, Condry and Miles, CPV, domestic violence, Eddie Gallagher, Heide, IPV, Parent abuse, perpetrator, victim

by helenbonnick | May 29, 2013 · 4:47 pm

Child to Parent Violence: Insights from Spain

Over the last few months I have been conscious that this blog has focused very much on events in the UK, with some coverage of Australia and the US and little from elsewhere. But I am also aware that the readership spreads right across the world; and so I would like to try to bring some broader content to “balance” things out a little. I know that there is important work going on in many other countries, from reading bibliographies and from following news and events, through colleagues attending international conferences as well as from a google alert.

In this post I want to bring together some information regarding work on child to parent violence (CPV) in Spain. I would value any comments or contributions on this to further expand my knowledge. Similarly, I hope that practitioners and researchers from around the world will take the time to let us know what is going on where they are. We can all be encouraged in hearing of the progress and developments of others. Continue reading →

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Tagged as Barbara Cottrell, Brighton University, Calvete Orue and Gamez-Guadix, child to parent violence in Spain, CPV, domestic violence, Family violence, GAllagher, Gamez-Guadix and Calvete, Garcia and Gracia, Ibabe and Juareguizar, Ibabe Juareguizar and Bentler, Ibabe Juareguizar and Diaz, Irene Monsonis

by helenbonnick | April 8, 2013 · 7:51 am

“An alignment of the planets”

Returning to the topic of themes that emerged from the recent conference on domestic violence by children against parents, in Nottingham, I’d like to look at 2 more ideas that caught my attention.

Launching the conference, Jo Sharpen, from AVA, described it as very timely, and indeed, throughout the day, speakers referred to a series of events that support our focus on the issue of child to parent violence at this time. The changed definition of domestic violence in England and Wales (with the publication of the Home Office Guidance to which AVA contributed), was highlighted and declared helpful in recognising that under 18s could be abusive, though bringing parent abuse within the domestic violence umbrella was also considered problematic, because of the important differences between CPV and IPV and the potential criminalisation of young people (see my earlier post for more details). March also saw the publication of the UK Government Action Plan: A call to end violence against women and girls, and the launch of the EVAWGUK policy. Though parent abuse is sadly still not specifically mentioned, it does offer opportunities to discuss the issue more widely. Continue reading →

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Tagged as abusive children, AVA, CPV, domestic violence, end violence against women and girls, EVAWGUK, IPV, Jo Sharpen, Parent abuse, RYPP, Simon Retford, Troubled Families Initiative, violence by children against parents

by helenbonnick | April 3, 2013 · 3:53 pm

“Once your awareness is raised, doing nothing is not an option”.

Picking up on a phrase from Jenny Bright in the last post, it has seemed that almost everyone I have spoken with recently has described the point at which they learned about parent abuse as an epiphany. It was, after all, the reason I have given for setting up this site. Each of us responds to that experience in our own way, whether by further study, setting up local provision, or even running a blog; but many describe the need to “raise awareness”. It got me wondering what we actually mean by that phrase. Continue reading →

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Tagged as Child to parent violence, CPV, domestic violence, Hertfordshire Practical Parenting Programme, Jenny Bright, Leeds PACT, Parent abuse, SPAN, WISH

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 | March 6, 2013 · 2:35 pm

Something else to worry about!

There are a lot of reasons why we might be anxious about the influence of Disney in the children’s clothes and games markets. We might justifiably be concerned about the effects on young people of so much time spent in front of a screen. But I’m not quite ready to include an inevitable slide towards parent abuse among my reasons!

Not having a subscription to the Times newspaper, I bought a real, paper copy last Thursday, 28^th February, in order to see the write up of the grant awarded to the University of Brighton for their CPV research. The half column write up on page 5 told me only what I knew already, but I was attracted to an article in Times2 by Helen Rumbelow, and extracts from a book by Sue Palmer, under the headline, Unhappy Daughters: how we are raising a troubled generation. Continue reading →

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Tagged as CPV, Eddie Gallagher. over-entitled children, Parent abuse, Sue Palmer, Unhappy Daughters, University of Brighton

by helenbonnick | January 9, 2013 · 8:49 am

A PhD in Child to Parent Violence

A unique opportunity is advertised this week for students interested in undertaking funded research into the gendered aspects of CPV, under the guidance of Dr. Paula Wilcox at the University of Brighton.

Tag Archives: CPV

Leeds Practitioners’ Forum on Child-to-Parent Violence

Daphne RCPV Conference in Galway

News from the 2013 Youth Justice Convention

Parent Abuse: the victim / perpetrator problem

Child to Parent Violence: Insights from Spain

“An alignment of the planets”

“Once your awareness is raised, doing nothing is not an option”.

Emerging themes 1: CPV and IPV

Something else to worry about!

A PhD in Child to Parent Violence

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