Helping children who have experienced family violence: A discussion of the issues raised by the PARKAS program

This paper looks at some of the difficulties that practitioners face when developing intervention programs for children who have experienced abuse or family violence. It argues that different intervention strategies have developed in Australia, the USA and Britain for children who have been physically abused and for children who have been sexually abused or who have experienced family violence, and that these strategies reflect the different ways in which these problems were identified rather than being based on rigorous evaluative methodologies that identify what is actually effective in intervening in children's lives.

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L’intervention auprès de jeunes mères et de leur enfant : perspective de la théorie de l’attachement

Criminologie ◽

10.7202/017409ar ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 7-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

George M. Tarabulsy ◽

Julie Robitaille ◽

Carl Lacharité ◽

Julie Deslandes ◽

Rémi Coderre

Keyword(s):

Child Development ◽

Attachment Theory ◽

Adolescent Mothers ◽

Emotional Development ◽

Intervention Program ◽

Intervention Strategies ◽

Psychosocial Risk ◽

Intervention Programs ◽

Young Mothers ◽

Relationship Attachment

The children of adolescent mothers are among those presenting the highest level of psychosocial risk, compromising their socio-emotional development on a number of levels. Several intervention strategies have been designed to address some of the problems that characterize these mother-infant dyads. While these strategies have proven to be beneficial to young mothers, relatively little impact has been found on the level of infant and child development. The purpose of this article is to address the issue of intervention aimed at adolescent mothers and their infant, and underline that the relational dimension, while absent from most intervention programs, is necessary to our understanding of the problems presented by these dyads. An intervention program, currently undergoing evaluation, is described having as a main objective the improvement of the early mother-infant relationship. Attachment theory is presented as an organizing construct. Characteristics of the intervention, as well as the evaluation strategy, are described.

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A Comparison of the Play Behaviors of Sexually Abused, Physically Abused, and Nonabused Preschool Children

Topics in Early Childhood Special Education ◽

10.1177/027112148900900207 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 88-100 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Beverly I. Fagot ◽

Richard Hagan ◽

Lise M. Youngblade ◽

LaWanda Potter

Keyword(s):

Preschool Children ◽

Sexually Abused ◽

Physically Abused ◽

Play Behaviors

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Helping the Abuser: Intervening Effectively in Family Violence. Violent Individuals and Families: A Handbook for Practitioners. Battered Women and Their Families: Intervention Strategies and Treatment Programs. Springer Series in Social Work: Vol. II

Social Work ◽

10.1093/sw/30.3.279 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 279-279

Author(s):

Sally A. Holmes

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Family Violence ◽

Battered Women ◽

Intervention Strategies ◽

Treatment Programs ◽

Springer Series

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Suicidality in College Women Who Were Sexually and Physically Abused and Physically Punished by Parents

Violence and Victims ◽

10.1891/0886-6708.10.3.195 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 195-201 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Susan L. Bryant ◽

Lillian M. Range

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Women Students ◽

College Women ◽

Physical Abuse ◽

Multiple Regression ◽

Sexually Abused ◽

Physical Punishment ◽

Physically Abused ◽

Different Levels

In order to ascertain if physically abused, sexually abused, physically punished, and nonabused/nonpunished women students reported different levels of suicidality, 182 women completed measures of suicidality, sexual abuse, physical abuse, and physical punishment. Women who reported sexual abuse were more suicidal than all other groups, and those physically abused were more suicidal than those nonabused/nonpunished. In a multiple regression, sexual abuse accounted for the most variance in suicidality (15%). Apparently women who report sexual or physical abuse, but not ordinary physical punishment alone, are at greatest risk for suicide.

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Health disparities of Latino immigrant workers in the United States

International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care ◽

10.1108/ijmhsc-06-2014-0024 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 282-298 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Adam Hege ◽

Quirina M. Vallejos ◽

Yorghos Apostolopoulos ◽

Michael Kenneth Lemke

Keyword(s):

Health Disparities ◽

Occupational Health ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Intervention Programs ◽

Immigrant Workers ◽

Systems Science ◽

Content Type ◽

Latino Immigrant ◽

The Usa ◽

Latino Immigrant Workers

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the literature pertaining to occupational health disparities experienced by Latino immigrant workers in the USA and to advance a general framework based on systems science to inform epidemiological and intervention research. Design/methodology/approach – Using papers and other sources from 2000 to the present, the authors examined the employment conditions and health outcomes of Latino immigrant workers and critically analyzed the pervasive evidence of health disparities, including causal mechanisms and associated intervention programs. Findings – The occupations, including the work environment and resultant living conditions, frequently performed by Latino immigrants in the USA represent a distinct trigger of increased injury risk and poor health outcomes. Extant intervention programs have had modest results at best and are in need of more comprehensive approaches to address the complex nature of health disparities. Practical implications – An integrated, systems-based framework concerning occupational health disparities among Latino immigrant workers allows for a holistic approach encompassing innovative methods and can inform high-leverage interventions including public policy. Originality/value – Reductionist approaches to health disparities have had significant limitations and miss the complete picture of the many influences. The framework the authors have provided elucidates a valuable method for reducing occupational health disparities among Latino immigrant workers as well as other populations.

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Intervenciones educativas para la inclusión en el aula de estudiantes con aptitudes sobresalientes

Revista Ciencias de la Educación ◽

10.35429/jesc.2020.12.4.6.11 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 6-11

Author(s):

Leidy Gutiérrez-Ladino ◽

Gabriela López-Aymes ◽

Alma Moreno-Aguirre ◽

María Araceli Ortiz-Rodríguez

Keyword(s):

Scientific Literature ◽

Intervention Strategies ◽

Intervention Programs ◽

Regular School ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Documentary Sources ◽

Educational Inclusion ◽

Teacher's Knowledge ◽

National Libraries ◽

Official Information

The educational attention of students with outstanding abilities, in the regular school, has become a great challenge for the Mexican educational system, therefore, the objective of this article is to review in different documentary sources, investigations carried out in Mexico during the period 2010- 2020 where the intervention programs or strategies aimed at this population are highlighted. To this end, the design of this research is descriptive with a search of scientific literature that has included the period of time 2010-2020 in the Researchgate, Scielo, Scopus, Dialnet and Redalyc databases. In addition, the official information of the Secretariat of Public Education of Mexico (SEP) and a bibliographic review in national libraries have been considered. Once the previous objective has been achieved, it is expected that the teacher's knowledge of the educational intervention strategies and the intervention programs presented here will favor the design and implementation of curricular adjustments for the educational inclusion of students with high abilities in regular schools.

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Changed Men? Men Talking About Violence and Change in Domestic and Family Violence Perpetrator Intervention Programs

Men and Masculinities ◽

10.1177/1097184x211038998 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1097184X2110389

Author(s):

Kate Seymour ◽

Kristin Natalier ◽

Sarah Wendt

Keyword(s):

Family Violence ◽

Intervention Programs ◽

Discursive Construction ◽

Gender Hierarchies

This article critically interrogates the ways in which men's talk about domestic and family violence (DFV) and change reproduce gender hierarchies which are themselves productive of violence. Drawing on interviews with men who have completed a perpetrator program, and building on the work of Hearn (1998), we show that these men’s conceptualizations of change both reflect and contribute to the discursive construction of masculinity, responsibility, and violence. By reflecting on men’s representations of change—and of themselves as “changed” men—we argue that DFV perpetrator interventions constitute a key site for the performance of dominant masculinities, reproducing the gendered discourses underpinning and enabling men’s violence.

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Director of the Epilepsy Information Service–Psychiatric Social Worker, 45 years’ experience, USA

Non-Epileptic Seizures in Our Experience ◽

10.1093/med/9780190927752.003.0064 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 177-178

Author(s):

Markus Reuber ◽

Gregg H. Rawlings ◽

Steven C. Schachter

Keyword(s):

Clinical Trial ◽

Social Worker ◽

Sexually Abused ◽

Information Service ◽

Epileptic Seizures ◽

Psychiatric Social Worker ◽

The Usa ◽

Epilepsy Center ◽

Power Of Words

This chapter assesses the experience of a Psychiatric Social Worker with patients with seizures. Having operated a nationwide Epilepsy Information Service in the USA since the 1970s, the Psychiatric Social Worker has talked with hundreds of thousands of persons with seizures and non-epileptic seizures, and a number who have both diagnoses. There was one patient in particular who was a frequent caller to the Epilepsy Information Service. His seizures were uncontrolled and he was seeking a better answer for his seizures. The patient was followed by a general neurologist who had explored every option to find a medicine that worked. The Psychiatric Social Worker then suggested that he talk with his doctor about referral to a comprehensive epilepsy center for monitoring to see if surgery might be an option or perhaps enrollment in a clinical trial of a new anticonvulsant. Later, he was seen by a Psychologist in whom he confided that he had been sexually abused as a child. The Psychologist informed him in an angry and impatient manner that he was having pseudoseizures, which made him feel violated once again and thus led him to depression. This case vividly portrays the importance of how the diagnosis is relayed and the power of words in these crucial situations.

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The development of dissociation in maltreated preschool-aged children

Development and Psychopathology ◽

10.1017/s0954579401002036 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 233-254 ◽

Cited By ~ 116

Author(s):

JENNY MACFIE ◽

DANTE CICCHETTI ◽

SHEREE L. TOTH

Keyword(s):

Childhood Maltreatment ◽

Sexually Abused ◽

Sense Of Self ◽

Point Of View ◽

Abused Children ◽

Maltreated Children ◽

Cascading Effects ◽

Physically Abused ◽

Narrative Story ◽

Preschool Period

Dissociation reflects disruptions in the integration of memories, perception, and identity into a coherent sense of self, and may develop following childhood maltreatment. The preschool years were identified as an important period for the development of dissociation. However, prior research has not examined the development of dissociation during this time. In order to address this gap, evidence of dissociation in 45 maltreated children, assessed for sexual abuse, physical abuse, and neglect, was compared with dissociation in 33 nonmaltreated children. Rather than depend on adult observer reports of behavior, the study sought to gain an understanding of dissociation from the child's own point of view. Because self-reports have limitations with such young children, a measure of dissociation evidenced in children's narrative story-stem completions was utilized. Maltreated children, especially physically abused children and sexually abused children, demonstrated more dissociation than did nonmaltreated children. Moreover, during the preschool period maltreated and nonmaltreated children followed different trajectories such that dissociation increased for maltreated children but did not do so for nonmaltreated children. Findings suggest that although the self is normatively integrated during the preschool period, it becomes increasingly fragmented for some maltreated children. Results are discussed in terms of cascading effects of maltreatment throughout development, and the importance of developmentally sensitive interventions.

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