Rarely an Isolated Incident: Acknowledging the Interrelatedness of Child Maltreatment, Victimisation and Trauma

Price‐Robertson, Rhys; Rush, Penelope; Wall, Liz; Higgins, Daryl

doi:10.1037/e567272013-001

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“…Toxic stress is the body's reaction to ongoing or frequent sudden high levels of stress response hormones (Bromfield & Miller , Price‐Robertson et al . ). It results from the repeated exposure to prolonged adversity in a manner that activates the physical and neurological stress response system (Bromfield & Miller , Delima & Vimpani , The Benevolent Society ).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…, Arney & Scott , Price‐Robertson et al . ). These links need to be at both formal and informal levels (Gibson & Johnstone , Gibson et al .…”

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“…Activation of this system initiates the many neurochemical changes that are harmful to the developing brain (Bromfield & Miller , , Delima & Vimpani , Price‐Robertson et al . , The Benevolent Society ). For homeless children, stressors arise from exposure to family instability and chaos.…”

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A scoping study: children, policy and cultural shifts in homelessness services in South Australia: are children still falling through the gaps?

Parry

Grant

Burke

2015

Health Soc Care Community

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What is known about this topic• Homeless children are at higher risk of disengagement from health, education and welfare services.• Disengagement has long-term deleterious health, interpersonal and educational outcomes for homeless children as they grow.• Policy changes have addressed disengagement by directing homelessness services staff to provide an improved level of assessment and referral processes for children. What this paper adds• Policy changes have failed to address the specific training and educational requirements of frontline staff.• Child aware approaches are integral to improving service access for children. AbstractHomeless families are the fastest growing segment of the homelessness population. Homelessness services are often the first to know when children are at risk of disengagement with health, welfare and education services. Changes to Australian policy to explicitly attend to the needs of children are attempts to address the complexity of, and provide better outcomes for, homeless children. There are mounting levels of evidence describing some of the needs of children who are homeless. Using the scoping study methodological framework, this review of academic and grey literature identified the extent to which service providers provide for the needs of homeless children. The literature search was conducted from September 2012 to April 2013 using ProQuest, Science Direct, Sage and OVID databases. Therefore, the objectives of this scoping study were to: (i) identify the specific needs of children in homelessness; (ii) describe recent changes in policy relating to care for children in homelessness services; (iii) explore the evidence on how service providers can enact care for children in homelessness services; (iv) identify the types of practice changes that are needed to optimise outcomes for children; and (v) identify the gaps in service delivery. This article describes the Australian policy changes and explores the potential impact of subsequent sector reforms on the internal practices in front-line homelessness services, in order to overcome structural and systemic barriers, and promote opportunities for children in homeless families. This scoping study literature review contributes to the understanding of the impact of policy change on front-line staff and suggests possible practice changes and future research options.

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confidence: 97%

“…, Arney & Scott , Price‐Robertson et al . ). These links need to be at both formal and informal levels (Gibson & Johnstone , Gibson et al .…”

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confidence: 97%

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“…Although the concept of cumulative harm captures the effect of harmful circumstances and events on the child (Price‐Robertson, Rush, Wall, & Higgins, ), the frameworks of “multi‐type victimization” and “chronic victimization” describe the interrelatedness of maltreatment experiences (Price‐Robertson, Higgins, & Vassallo, ; Price‐Robertson, Higgins, et al, ). Indeed, Price‐Robertson, Higgins, et al () outline cumulative harm which pervades the negative experience of child maltreatment, including both the ongoing trauma of adverse childhood experiences and harm associated with both multitype maltreatment and victimization (Price‐Robertson, Higgins, et al, ).…”

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“…From the perspective of cumulative harm, the approaches noted above offer strong focus on the longer term outcomes for people and families, in terms of managing health and well‐being, social and community supports, and economic skills (DHS, ). Price‐Robertson, Rush, et al () suggest that this multiservice response better captures and responds to the complexity of cumulative harm. However, identification and coordination of such responses generally is the responsibility of child protection, where the entry point is usually incident‐based rather than assessing general vulnerability of children and families.…”

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Cumulative harm in the child protection system: The Australian context

Sheehan

2019

Child & Family Social Work

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Cumulative harm is a major child protection concern, with significant consequences for child well-being and development often into adult life. This systematic literature review examines how the construct of cumulative harm is understood and operationalized within current Australian child protection legislation, policy, and practice and situates this within an international context. Scholarly articles and grey literature were qualitatively analysed to explore two main research questions: How is cumulative harm to children identified, assessed, and ultimately incorporated into child protection and legal structures? And what are the most effective responses to cumulative harm identified for child protection practice?What was found was that although the construct of cumulative harm is increasingly incorporated into child protection practice and legislation, in practice, this remains crisis-driven. Although the literature emphasized prevention and early intervention as responses to reducing the cumulative impact of adverse childhood experiences, there is negligible research on what constitutes an effective response to cases involving cumulative harm. They are cases which are less visible within the child protection paradigm; attention to the impact of risk of maltreatment and its influence on longterm developmental outcomes is less well addressed creating uncertainty and ambiguity about effective responses for child protection. KEYWORDS child abuse research, child protection legal decision making, cumulative harm

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Child, parent and contextual factors associated with child protection system involvement and child maltreatment in the family: A rapid evidence review

Higgins,

Hunt

2023

Aust J Social Issues

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Child abuse and neglect in the home is a prevalent and significant issue in Australia. Recent findings from the Australian Child Maltreatment Study revealed that 62.2 per cent of participants had experienced at least one type of maltreatment during childhood, with most reporting multi‐type maltreatment. This rapid evidence review was aimed at understanding factors associated with child abuse and neglect in the family context. Results from the included studies indicated that there is a complex interplay between various child‐related factors, parent or family characteristics and contextual factors in understanding child maltreatment. Implications for a reliance on proxy measures of child maltreatment, including involvement with child protection systems, are also considered. A key finding across the included studies was that parent characteristics were consistently identified and should be a key target for prevention. Further research is needed to explore the role of parenting capacity and skills in the prevention of harm, the intersection between associated factors, how protective factors and strength‐based approaches can inform prevention efforts and how policies and practices can be designed to appropriately address this issue.

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Rarely an Isolated Incident: Acknowledging the Interrelatedness of Child Maltreatment, Victimisation and Trauma

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A scoping study: children, policy and cultural shifts in homelessness services in South Australia: are children still falling through the gaps?

A scoping study: children, policy and cultural shifts in homelessness services in South Australia: are children still falling through the gaps?

Cumulative harm in the child protection system: The Australian context

Child, parent and contextual factors associated with child protection system involvement and child maltreatment in the family: A rapid evidence review

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