Fathers’ Perspectives Regarding Their Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence

Bourassa, Chantal; Létourneau, Nicole; Holden, George W.; Turcotte, Pierre

doi:10.1080/15548732.2016.1275919

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“…Eight articles (four Australia, two United Kingdom and two Canada) were father-focused, six of which described program design and/ or evaluation outcomes. [31][32][33][34][35][36] The other two needs analyses studies made recommendations that fathering programs differentiate content to address the impact of conflictual co-parenting on children for fathers who assigned blame to an ex-partner, 37 while Britton and Johnson 38 warned that program providers needed to expect and affirm men's emotional expressions, including anger, when undergoing mediation processes for separation. Across all the articles, fatherhood was understood as an opportune transition period for men to improve their relationship skills.…”

Section: Fathering Identitie S a S The C Atalys T For Rel Ati On S Hip Bu Ild Ingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The six programs were group-based and in-person [31][32][33][34][35][36] with some offering supplementary individual counselling to men 32,34 and their partners. 35,36 Group programs ran for 12-52 weeks [31][32][33][34]36 and attendees ranged in age from 18 to 66 years old. [31][32][33][34]36,37 Most programs relied on a mixture of self and third party referrals including social services and family courts.…”

Section: Fathering Identitie S a S The C Atalys T For Rel Ati On S Hip Bu Ild Ingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Men building better relationships: A scoping review

Oliffe

Kelly

Montaner

et al. 2021

Health Prom J of Aust

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Issue addressed: Health outcomes linked to men's relationships have the potential to both promote and risk the well-being of males and their families. The current scoping review provides a synthesis of men's relationship programs (excluding criminal court mandated services) in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom to distil predominant program designs, access points, delivery modes and evaluative strategies. Methods: Databases CINAHL, Medline, PsycInfo and Web of Science were searched for eligible articles published January 2010 and June 2020. The inclusion criteria consisted of empirical studies focussed on relationship programs for men. Results: The review identified 21 articles comprising eight focussed on Fathering Identities as the Catalyst for Relationship Building and 13 targeting Men's Behaviour Change in Partner Relationships. Findings highlight the prevalence of group-based, in-person programs which men accessed via third party or self-referrals. Fathering programs highlighted the impact of men's violence on their children in appealing to attendees to strategise behavioural adjustments. Men's partner relationship programs emphasised self-control amid building strategies for proactively dealing with distress and conflict. Program evaluations consistently reported attendee feedback to gauge the acceptability and usefulness of services.Conclusions: That most men attending fathering and partner relationship programs were referred as a result of domestic violence and/or intimate partner violence underscores men's reticence for proactively seeking help as well as the absence of upstream relationship programs. There are likely enormous gains to be made by norming boys and men's relationship programs to prevent rather than correct violent and/or abusive behaviours.

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Section: Fathering Identitie S a S The C Atalys T For Rel Ati On S Hip Bu Ild Ingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Fathering Identitie S a S The C Atalys T For Rel Ati On S Hip Bu Ild Ingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Men building better relationships: A scoping review

Oliffe

Kelly

Montaner

et al. 2021

Health Prom J of Aust

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“…There are a range of therapeutic interventions targeting fathering in the context of men's violence against women, but few have been evaluated and there are inconclusive findings on effectiveness of most programs (Labarre et al 2016). Most interventions are group-based and time-limited and focus on reducing aggression and raising awareness of the consequences of IPVon children (Bourassa et al 2016). While some interventions have shown promising results when it comes to self-reported change in parenting and co-parenting, our findings suggest that interventions need to go beyond these goals and address fathering in everyday-life situations.…”

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“…However, partner-abusive fathers also differ in the extent to which they envision and take responsibility for the consequences of the violence for their children (Rothman et al 2007). Qualitative studies are more sensitive to diversity within phenomena and therefore tend to find more variation regarding partnerabusive men's ability to understand the negative impact of their violence on their children, and their efforts to mitigate these negative effects (Bourassa et al 2016). For example, Perel and Peled (2008) found that partner-abusive men in a non-clinical sample could acknowledge the negative impact of IPV on children but simultaneously relativized this impact in relation to their child.…”

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How Do Men in Treatment for Intimate Partner Violence Experience Parenting their Young Child? A Descriptive Phenomenological Analysis

Mohaupt

Duckert

Askeland³

2019

J Fam Viol

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Men who use intimate partner violence (IPV) often have challenges as caregivers such as poor understanding of children's needs and emotions. There is little knowledge regarding their everyday-life experiences of being a parent. We interviewed 14 men in therapy for intimate partner violence on how they experienced their relationship to one of their children (mean age 4,5 years). We performed a descriptive phenomenological analysis. Informants seldom explored their children's experience. They found that their fathering was influenced by past relationships and negative expectations for the future. The informants' bodily experience of emotional arousal was described as difficult to control and understand and was a limited source for meaning making in the fatherchild relationship. The experience of being a good father was connected to presence and control of the child's behavior. Informants felt that what they experienced as good parenting lacked others' recognition. Interventions for partner-abusive men should address their fathering and focus on fathers' life-experience and context as influencing their fathering. Therapeutic interventions should strengthen partner-abusive fathers' awareness of and meaning making from their emotional arousal. Where safety permits, dyadic interventions aiming at re-establishing the child's experience of safety in the father-child relationship should be considered by therapy providers as a complement to established interventions with partner-abusive men.

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“…To date, very little qualitative research has sought to hear the voices of young persons exposed to IPV, particularly concerning their strengths and positive coping mechanisms. Most published research has collected information on this topic from proxies, typically mothers of young persons exposed to IPV, by asking them to describe the lived experiences and coping strategies of their children (Bourassa, Letourneau, Holden, & Turcotte, 2017;Fogarty et al, 2019;Louis & Johnson, 2017;McDonald et al, 2019), while other studies have interviewed adults who were exposed to IPV as children to retrospectively investigate their early experiences (Haselschwerdt, Maddox, & Hlavaty, 2019;Humphreys, 2001aHumphreys, , 2001bNaughton, O'Donnell, & Muldoon, 2019;O'Brien, Cohen, Pooley, & Taylor, 2013;Suzuki, Geffner, & Bucky, 2008). Relying solely on maternal reports of their children's experiences is problematic due to the potential bias of these reports, which tend to provide a more negative portrait of children's adjustment, likely due to the distress and PTSD symptoms that women often experience following IPV (Chan & Yeung, 2009;Sternberg, Baradaran, Abbott, Lamb, & Guterman, 2006).…”

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“I Wouldn’t Be Here Without Them”: Resilience in Youth Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

2020

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The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate and describe the coping strategies that young persons exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) use to effectively cope with the traumatic experience of growing up in an IPV-affected family. We conducted a qualitative investigation in which we drew on concepts of the constructivist grounded theory method to develop a resilience model that reflects our understanding of the subjective and contextual experiences of the young persons included in our study. Data were collected from 13 young persons aged 9-17 years who were recruited through purposive (non-random) sampling from community agencies located in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Data collection methods included face-to-face open-ended interviews, drawing of ecomaps, and photovoice. Study participants described a variety of coping strategies that they had used and/or were still using to cope with adversity in their lives, including IPV exposure, which became main themes in our analyses and involve lower level categories. We organized our findings into a resilience model that categorizes the coping strategies described by our study participants in individual-level, family-level, and community-level strategies. From the accounts of the young persons we interviewed emerged a model of resilience in which the constant interaction between their ability and motivation to access useful resources both within their home and in the external environments, coupled with the presence of these resources in these environments was what ultimately promoted their healthy development and well-being following IPV exposure. We provided recommendations for practice and policy based on our findings.

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Fathers’ Perspectives Regarding Their Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

Men building better relationships: A scoping review

Men building better relationships: A scoping review

How Do Men in Treatment for Intimate Partner Violence Experience Parenting their Young Child? A Descriptive Phenomenological Analysis

“I Wouldn’t Be Here Without Them”: Resilience in Youth Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

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