A Parent’s Perceptions of Physical and Emotional Sibling Violence

The inclusion of parental perspectives in research on physical and emotional sibling violence has been minimal, with parents of various ethnic backgrounds being particularly absent from the literature. Drawing on witnessed interactions with her own children and her personal experiences with a sibling in childhood, this article presents a view of physical and emotional sibling violence from the perspective of an African American parent identified by social services to be at risk for child abuse and neglect. Themes emerging from the interview center around the intersection of sibling violence and parental/family stress, parental normalization of violence between siblings, witnessing community violence, sibling versus peer fighting, and ways to address/prevent sibling violence. The need for more ethnically and socioeconomically inclusive research related to physical and emotional sibling violence is highlighted along with a discussion of practice implications as mechanisms for intervention.

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Collaborating across health and social care: joint funding an adult protection Coordinator post in Caerphilly, UK

The Journal of Adult Protection ◽

10.1108/jap-06-2014-0020 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 139-147

Author(s):

Andrea Giordano ◽

Alison Neville

Keyword(s):

Social Services ◽

Social Care ◽

Service Improvement ◽

Health Board ◽

Content Type ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Abuse And Neglect ◽

Vulnerable Adults ◽

Adult Protection

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to improve the consistency and quality of the response to vulnerable adults who experience abuse and neglect within NHS, independent healthcare and social care settings is noted by practitioners, agencies and patients. Health and social care policy frameworks promote principles of service improvement and consistency, along with a focus on outcomes and resource effectiveness and interagency collaboration. The Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) coordinator role carries the responsibility of coordinating a response to individual referrals of abuse and neglect as described as part of the Designated Lead Manager role in the Wales Interim POVA Policy and Procedures for the POVA from abuse (Wales Adult Protection Coordinators Group, 2013). Design/methodology/approach – This paper will explore the benefits realised through a registered nurse being seconded from the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board into a newly created joint adult protection Health Coordinator post within the Caerphilly County Borough Council social services department POVA team. Findings – This is the first example of such partnership working in adult protection in Wales and has provided a number of benefits in relation to: providing adult protection advice; coordinating the response to referrals of vulnerable adult abuse and neglect within health and social care settings; carrying out or buddying others to complete adult protection investigations; facilitating the two day non-criminal POVA investigation training course and, awareness raising within the local Health Board. The development of a student nurse placement in the social services POVA team cements the multiagency collaborative approach that this development sought to achieve. Originality/value – The need to improve the consistency and quality of the response to vulnerable adults who experience abuse and neglect within NHS, independent healthcare and social care settings is noted by practitioners, agencies and patients.

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Children with learning disabilities and related needs placed out of borough: parents' perspective

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.30.3.100 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 100-102 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Amma Shuwa ◽

Brian Fitzgerald ◽

Carmen Clemente ◽

Denny Grant

Keyword(s):

Learning Disabilities ◽

Social Services ◽

Family Stress ◽

Family Burden ◽

Clinical Implications ◽

Language Therapy ◽

Speech And Language Therapy ◽

Parental Experience ◽

Lack Of Information ◽

Specialist Services

Aims and MethodTo investigate parental experience of children with learning disability being placed out of borough. The parents of 70 children were interviewed.ResultsParents would prefer in-borough provision but 90% were satisfied with the current school. The main problems experienced in-borough were poor advice, delays, lack of information and family stress. After out-of-borough placement there was a reported increase in the use of speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and sensory facilities and a decrease in the use of paediatric services, social services, and mental health services.Clinical ImplicationsSpecialist services should be helpful and reduce family burden by keeping children in-borough.

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Introduction

Conflict, Peace and Mental Health ◽

10.7228/manchester/9780719090998.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

David Bolton

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Northern Ireland ◽

Social Services ◽

Social Worker ◽

Well Being ◽

Conflict Processes ◽

Post Conflict ◽

Personal Experiences ◽

The Impact ◽

Health And Well Being

In the Introduction, the author describes the background to the book and his personal experiences of violence in Northern Ireland - as a social worker and health and social services manager in Enniskillen and Omagh. He addresses the impact of loss and trauma linked to conflict and the implications for mental health and well-being. The structure of the book is outlined and the author sets the rest of the book in the argument that the mental health of conflict affected communities should be an early and key consideration in peace talks, politics and post-conflict processes.

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Reflections of a community-based participatory researcher from the intersection of disability advocacy, engineering, and the academy

Action Research ◽

10.1177/1476750316636669 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 258-275 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Dora M Raymaker

Keyword(s):

Social Services ◽

Community Based Participatory Research ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Story Telling ◽

Research Setting ◽

Community Based ◽

Self Reflection ◽

Narrative Story ◽

Power And Resistance ◽

Personal Experiences

This article uses an evocative autoethnographic approach to explore the experience of being an insider-researcher in a community-based participatory research setting. Taking a holistic perspective and using the form of narrative story-telling, I examine the dynamics between the typically marginalizing (but sometimes empowering) experience of being an autistic woman and the typically privileging (but sometimes oppressive) experience of being an engineering professional, during a time of career upheaval. Themes of motivations and mentors, adversity from social services and the academy, belonging, the slipperiness of intersectional positioning, feedback cycles of opportunity, dichotomies of competence and inadequacy, heightened stakes, and power and resistance are explored through the narrative. While primarily leaving the narrative to speak for itself per the qualitative approach taken, the article concludes with a discussion of how the personal experiences described relate both to the broader work of insider-researchers within disability-related fields, and to misconceptions about self-reflection and capacity for story-telling in individuals on the autism spectrum.

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The Prevalence of Elder Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults Who Access Health and Social Services in London, Ontario, Canada

Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect ◽

10.1300/j084v05n04_06 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 77-94 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Elizabeth Dow Pittaway ◽

Anne Westhues

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Social Services ◽

Elder Abuse ◽

Health And Social Services ◽

Elder Abuse And Neglect ◽

Abuse And Neglect

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Masculinity and Violence

Lost Childhoods ◽

10.1525/california/9780520296701.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 67-82

Author(s):

Michaela Soyer

Keyword(s):

Juvenile Justice ◽

Social Services ◽

Justice System ◽

Juvenile Justice System ◽

Young Men ◽

Traumatic Experiences ◽

Multiple Functions ◽

Abuse And Neglect ◽

At Home

Chapter 5 shows how the juvenile justice system perpetuates the traumatic experiences the respondents suffered in their homes. “Outsider masculinity” fulfilled multiple functions by allowing the young men to rationalize the violence they committed as well as the abuse and neglect they experienced at the hands of others. This chapter focuses on the unacknowledged abuse of these young men that took place at home and then in the juvenile justice system. Even as the juvenile justice system provides urgently needed social services, it furthers victimizes children.

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Children as Victims of Parental Conflict

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.74.3.446 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 74 (3) ◽

pp. 446-446

Author(s):

MICHAEL A. REINHART

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Physical Abuse ◽

Social Services ◽

Child Abuse And Neglect ◽

Active Role ◽

University Of California ◽

Parental Conflict ◽

Abuse And Neglect

To the Editor.— The article by Nelson1 included particularly vivid examples of the manner in which children may become victims of parental conflict. In the experience of University of California Davis Medical Center's Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team, similar cases (although less severe) account for approximately 2% of the physical abuse cases reviewed. Social services agencies tend to view such occurrences as "accidents," and are reticent to provide services to such families. Physicians must take an active role in advocating that the families and children receive appropriate services.

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New Directions for Family Support and Service in Child Welfare

Children Australia ◽

10.1017/s1035077200002960 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 15-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Brian Mitchell

Keyword(s):

Child Welfare ◽

Community Violence ◽

The Public ◽

Standards Of Living ◽

The Family ◽

New Directions ◽

Abuse And Neglect ◽

Australian Community ◽

Qualitative Changes ◽

The Welfare State

The past 30 years has seen the Australian community undergo significant structural and qualitative changes bringing prosperity and unprecedented standards of living to most citizens. But for some people these changes have left them behind and today their plight has reached scandalous proportions such that the nation's sense of social justice is in question.Today we are only too well aware of the statistics on poverty, homelessness, child abuse and neglect, drug abuse and community violence. Thirty years ago we would not have thought it possible that sectors of the Australian community, apart from Aboriginal communities, would have such a growing sense of hopelessness and isolation from the mainstream of Australian life.These difficulties are now pressing upon child welfare services and at a time of expenditure neutrality of the public welfare dollar. More and more as the costs of the welfare state approach crisis point, government and the community in general are being forced to turn to the resources of the family to find solutions to problems of social and personal need. In child welfare the notion of turning to the family and seeking resources or building upon inherent strengths is a new direction requiring a new understanding, knowledge and skills.

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