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by helenbonnick | February 24, 2015 · 11:29 am

Standards and quality assurance: next steps in parent abuse work

I was at a meeting last week considering the need for practice standards in work with families impacted by parent abuse.

While it still feels uncomfortably random whether you are able to access help or not as a family or practitioner, it might be surprising to hear that there has been a real surge in the development of services across England at least. With a limited amount of research and evidence to base work on, it is perhaps less surprising that many of the services show great similarities, even when they have started from different places and within different agencies, but there is variety and this is both good (flexibility in design and delivery meets specific needs) and potentially problematic (how can we be sure that work meets the needs). Now that programmes are more established and have themselves worked through initial teething problems, it seems a good time to think about how to assure quality and safety in the work. Continue reading →

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by helenbonnick | October 7, 2014 · 7:58 am

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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by helenbonnick | April 11, 2014 · 8:54 am

Child to Parent Violence: the Learning Issue

I offer you a round up of various items that have cropped up in the last weeks, all with something of a learning theme, hence the title of the post.

A third year postgraduate Clinical Counselling student at the University of Chester, Jennifer Thomas, is looking for participants for her dissertation research, title: Exploring the place of counselling for parents who have lived with child-to-parent violence. This is specifically with reference to individual counselling for parents, rather than programmes working with the family. If you would like to know more, or know any one else who can help, I will be happy to pass on your details to Jennifer. Continue reading →

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Tagged as Adolescent to parent violence, Calvete Orue Bertino Gonzalez Montes Padilla and Pereira, Child to parent violence, Family violence, Parent abuse, Who's in charge

by helenbonnick | February 14, 2014 · 10:24 am

A sensitive documentary

I have written in the past about speaking to the media, and some time ago I also blogged about a television company who had been commissioned to produce a documentary about parent abuse. This programme is no longer in production, but I had a very interesting meeting yesterday with Nick Poyntz of PopkornTV who has been brought on board as Director for a programme commissioned by Channel 5. Popkorn have also been pursuing this idea for a while but Nick has brought a new lease of life to the project. We spent over an hour exploring the need for sensitivity, understanding of the ethical issues, input from families into the editing process, and underlying agenda. Nick assures me that there is no hidden story, simply as desire to show the levels of family violence many people experience, to raise awareness and perhaps contribute as a result to campaigning within the policy arena. “My aim, on this project as with all my films, is to make a collaborative documentary which not only gets to the heart of the issues but also benefits those involved.” Continue reading →

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by helenbonnick | November 1, 2013 · 10:09 pm

That thing …

… When you do or think something and suddenly everyone else is doing the same? Well it’s been that sort of day!

Following the presentation of the key findings and recommendations on Thursday, Professor David Gadd of Manchester University received coverage across a number of radio stations for the From Boys to Men Project, which examined why some young men go on to become perpetrators of domestic abuse, and what can be done to prevent this. The research found strong correlations with past experience of domestic violence in the home, but David Gadd made it clear that this did not amount to causation. The authors of the research call for the development of preventative work in schools, with work on violence and abuse included in sex and relationship education. Continue reading →

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by helenbonnick | October 11, 2013 · 3:19 pm

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 | July 15, 2013 · 10:05 am

The law of unintended consequences

Today see the roll out of the welfare benefits cap across England, Wales and Scotland. What we are supposed to expect is that this will encourage families to find work or move to a different, cheaper area to live. Sadly, what we may see is a rise in violence and family break up. The Enemy Within, the 2012 report from the charity 4Children, using data from a specially commissioned YouGov Family Violence survey, highlights redundancy, long-term unemployment and serious financial worries as the major contributory factor in family violence. The dual pronged budgetary cuts to benefits and funding of services are thus especially worrying. Continue reading →

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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 | May 7, 2013 · 1:15 pm

Restorative Justice: the positive story

Some lively discussion on the BBC last week around the use of “informal” community responses to violent crime, including Restorative Justice practice, focused on adult crime. As well as a rather dismissive tone in the description of these techniques as “informal”, one of the main concerns in discussion was with regard to the inappropriateness of restorative justice in the case of domestic violence, where vulnerable women in particular may be pressured into accepting “unreal” apologies from perpetrators. But of course the story may be very different with children and adolescents using violence in the home, where restorative techniques have been found to be extremely positive, enabling children to acknowledge their abusive behaviour, restoring family relationships and avoiding the criminalisation that might otherwise follow involvement in the youth justice system. Continue reading →

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by helenbonnick | June 22, 2012 · 2:36 pm

Something to celebrate!

This week I celebrate one year of this blog.

When I first became aware of the issue of parent abuse, in the early 80s, we had no idea of what to suggest to help the parent who had approached us. By the time I engaged in some serious research, in 2004-6, there was a small but growing body of knowledge about this aspect of family violence, and a number of programmes had been developed, mostly in Australia, New Zealand and the USA and Canada. A year later, a discussion on parent abuse was one of the items in the BBC’s Woman’s Hour, a flagship radio programme, which goes out 6 days a week. Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Family violence

Standards and quality assurance: next steps in parent abuse work

Understanding parent abuse within a child protection framework

Child to Parent Violence: the Learning Issue

A sensitive documentary

That thing …

Addressing parent abuse through Juvenile Family Courts in USA

The law of unintended consequences

Child to Parent Violence: Insights from Spain

Restorative Justice: the positive story

Something to celebrate!

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