Families – Private and Sacred: How to Raise the Curtain and Implement Family Support from a Public Health Perspective

Higgins, Daryl; Sanders, Matthew R.; Lonne, Bob; Richardson, D. L.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05858-6_9

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“…A well-integrated system of parenting support would entail services implemented through the child welfare system in partnership with existing exosystem level systems (e.g., primary health care/integrated care settings; mental health clinics; home visitation programs; public schools, preschools, child care centers; churches; community organizations), providing multiple points of contact and potential intervention opportunities to reach parents and children. Each of these settings could adopt routine, inexpensive standardized screening procedures to more efficiently identify risk status to better align families with the intensity of services needed, even during emergencies (Higgins, Sanders et al, 2019).…”

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The Perfect Storm: Hidden Risk of Child Maltreatment During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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The Covid-19 pandemic upended the country, with enormous economic and social shifts. Given the increased contact from families living in virtual confinement coupled with massive economic disarray, the Covid-19 pandemic may have created the ideal conditions to witness a rise in children’s experience of abuse and neglect. Yet such a rise will be difficult to calculate given the drop in official mechanisms to track its incidence. The current investigation utilized two studies conducted early in the pandemic to evaluate maltreatment risk. In the first cross-sectional study, parents ( n = 405) reported increased physical and verbal conflict and neglect which were associated with their perceived stress and loneliness. In the second study, parents ( n = 106) enrolled in a longitudinal study reported increased parent-child conflict, which was associated with concurrent child abuse risk, with several links to employment loss, food insecurity, and loneliness; findings also demonstrated increases in abuse risk and psychological aggression relative to pre-pandemic levels. Findings are discussed in the context of a reactive welfare system rather than a pro-active public-health oriented approach to child maltreatment, connecting with families through multiple avenues. Innovative approaches will be needed to reach children faced with maltreatment to gauge its scope and impact in the pandemic’s aftermath.

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The Perfect Storm: Hidden Risk of Child Maltreatment During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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“…Policy makers therefore need to ensure that they are directing funding to EBPSs in a transparent way that promotes accountability. We argue that to achieve wider take-up of EBPSs, a multi-level, progressive approach based on a public health or population-based model is needed (as outlined in Higgins et al, 2019;. In order to influence the bulk of the population of families, the greatest investment should be in universal primary prevention activities located within service settings that are widely available .…”

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“…To influence the bulk of the population of families, policy makers need to ensure that they are funding multiple non-stigmatising "soft-entry" points for parents. "Soft-entry" points could include (a) universal services, like education and primary health care; (b) organisations that families are already in contact with, such as early childhood settings, schools, community sporting organisations, religious organisations, music and artistic activities, and general practice medical services; as well as (c) social welfare and dedicated referral services (Higgins et al, 2019).…”

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Policies Are Needed to Increase the Reach and Impact of Evidence-Based Parenting Supports: A Call for a Population-Based Approach to Supporting Parents, Children, and Families

Doyle¹,

Morawska²,

Dj³

et al. 2021

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Parents can be essential change-agents in their children’s lives. To support parents in their parenting role, a range of programs have been developed and evaluated. In this paper, we provide an overview of the evidence for the effectiveness of parenting interventions for parents and children across a range of outcomes, including child and adolescent mental and physical health, child and adolescent competencies and academic outcomes, parental skills and competencies, parental wellbeing and mental health, and prevention of child maltreatment and family violence. Although there is extensive research showing the effectiveness of evidence-based parenting programs, these are not yet widely available at a population level and many parents are unable to access support. We outline how to achieve increased reach of evidence-based parenting supports, highlighting the policy imperative to adequately support the use of these supports as a way to address high priority mental health, physical health, and social problems.

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“…In particular, child sexual abuse has been found to be a risk factor for depression, anxiety, feelings of shame, post-traumatic stress disorder, sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, suicidality, substance abuse and educational difficulties. 2 According toMacGinley et al (2019), reviews have demonstrated a range of psychosocial protective factors that can help reduce risk, including family and social supports, personal attributes, active coping style, a sense of personal influence and externalising blame for the abuse (see alsoHiggins et al, 2019).3 For example, some definitions include the experience of exposure of genitals; some do not.4 London et al (2005) concluded at the time that two-thirds of individuals never disclose their victimisation.5 There are limitations inherent in the retrospective nature of the many studies that rely on adult memories (see, e.g Sanci 2019…”

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“… 2 2 According to MacGinley et al (2019), reviews have demonstrated a range of psychosocial protective factors that can help reduce risk, including family and social supports, personal attributes, active coping style, a sense of personal influence and externalising blame for the abuse (see also Higgins et al, 2019). …”

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Allegations of child sexual abuse: An empirical analysis of published judgements from the Family Court of Australia 2012–2019

Webb

Moloney

Smyth

et al. 2021

Aust J Social Issues

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Allegations of child sexual abuse pose agonisingly difficult issues for families, family law professionals and the courts. We present data from the population (N=521) of Family Court of Australia judgements containing allegations of child sexual abuse published in the Australasian Legal Information Institute's Australian database. Our data cover all in-scope judgements published between mid-2012 and mid-2019, of which 71 dealt with cases that were uncontested. A further 70 were contested but the allegations were abandoned before the end of the trial. We classified the remaining 380 cases as "fully contested". Of this group: (a) in 14% of cases, judicial officers expressed a direct or clearly implied belief that the allegations of child sexual abuse were true; (b) risk of sexual harm to a child was found in 12% of judgements; (c) when no risk of sexual harm was found, judges were more than twice as likely to regard the allegations as genuine but mistaken rather than to have been deliberately misleading; (d) just under two-thirds of allegedly unsafe | 323 WEBB Et al.

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Families – Private and Sacred: How to Raise the Curtain and Implement Family Support from a Public Health Perspective

Cited by 10 publications

References 28 publications

The Perfect Storm: Hidden Risk of Child Maltreatment During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Perfect Storm: Hidden Risk of Child Maltreatment During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Policies Are Needed to Increase the Reach and Impact of Evidence-Based Parenting Supports: A Call for a Population-Based Approach to Supporting Parents, Children, and Families

Allegations of child sexual abuse: An empirical analysis of published judgements from the Family Court of Australia 2012–2019

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