Young people and young adults’ experiences with child abuse and maltreatment: Meaning making, conceptualizations, and dealing with violence

Aadnanes, Margrete; Gulbrandsen, Liv Mette

doi:10.1177/1473325016683245

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“…Children could describe a specific turning point where they had to change the way they were acting to change their family's situation. Childreńs narratives, both in this study and in previous studies (Aadnanes & Gulbrandsen, 2017;Överlien, 2012), reveal how children use different strategies to influence the situation.…”

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confidence: 66%

Children’s Disclosure of Physical Abuse - The Process of Disclosing and the Responses from Social Welfare Workers

Thulin

Kjellgren

Nilsson

2019

Child Care in Practice

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Children experiencing physical abuse by their parents are left with several difficult decisions. The present study aims at exploring the process of disclosing the abuse and the responses from social welfare workers from a child perspective, in a Swedish context. Data was obtained from in depth interviews with 15 children with a history of child physical abuse. A qualitative content analysis was conducted in order to capture the children's experiences. Disclosing abuse was described as a process including several judgements from the child. Children describe their everyday life before disclosing, with an escalation of violence making them think they have to act in order to prevent further abuse. They made several well-thought decisions and selected a trustworthy recipient. The decision to disclose was often made out of fear, but the fear could remain after the disclosure, not knowing what will happen next. Children seem to lose control over how their abuse narratives are handled after disclosing. The recipient and social welfare worker was acting but not informing or consulting the child. Children emphasize the importance of trustworthy and competent adults when disclosing physical abuse. Ethical issues and implications for practice are discussed. Practitioner messages. Disclosure is to be seen as a process, including several judgements by the child.. Children emphasize the importance of trustworthy and competent adults when choosing to disclose physical abuse.. Social welfare workers should inform and include children in their decision making.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

Children’s Disclosure of Physical Abuse - The Process of Disclosing and the Responses from Social Welfare Workers

Thulin

Kjellgren

Nilsson

2019

Child Care in Practice

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“…Individuals make sense of their experiences through narration, as events and ideas are organized and evaluated by drawing on both individual and sociocultural resources (Gubrium & Holstein, ). Service users' narratives about their CWS encounters are therefore valuable sources of knowledge, reflecting both personal agencies and institutional structures (Aadnanes & Gulbrandsen, ). The project was approved by the Norwegian Data Protection Official, and ethics guidelines were followed.…”

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Negotiating deficiency: Exploring ethnic minority parents' narratives about encountering child welfare services in Norway

Fylkesnes

Iversen

Nygren

2017

Child & Family Social Work

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Evaluating the participatory opportunities for service users within social welfare institutions is a pressing issue. In this article, we explore a group of ethnic minority parents' experiences with child welfare services (CWS) in Norway. A strong narrative theme was deficiency positioning-how lacking a Norwegian normative set of knowledge and skills challenged the parents' opportunities to participate. We analysed how deficiency positioning was perceived, negotiated, and contested in the parents' accounts, and 4 themes emerged: (a) learning to parent, (b) contesting expert knowledge, (c) learning to be a client, and (d) constructing CWS deficiency. Nancy Fraser's concept of "participatory parity" was applied to explore how current institutional structures may enable and limit parents' participation. The analysis provides insight into agencies and informants' sense-making processes as well as the diverse resources and strategies that parents draw upon in the CWS encounter.Furthermore, we argue that an interplay between a strong focus on "parenting skills" and bureaucratic and economic structures positions ethnic minority parents as deficient, thus providing powerful mechanisms for marginalization. Implications for case work and institutional levels are discussed. Paul's reference to the "scandal" of poor information for refugees about the mandate of Norwegian CWS can be linked to recent debates in international media where ethnic minority parents criticize Norwegian CWS, stating that these services lack cultural sensitivity and wrongfully intervene in families' lives (Skivenes, 2014). Paul's claim can also be linked to a broader debate within social work regarding cultural diversity and the competencies that social workers must possess to meet the specific needs of ethnic minority populations (Freund & Band-Winterstein, 2015;Williams, 2006).In this article, we explore these questions from the perspective of ethnic minority parents who have encountered Norwegian CWS. We --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…In all forms, violence should be seen as any action which hurts, frightens or forces one to act against their will -which has substantial repercussions on the memories of children that are involved in these circumstances [18]. Children have reported that the lasting impact of emotional trauma incited by physical abuse was more harmful to their recollections of these events rather than of the abuse itself [19]. According to these children, the nuances involved in conceptualizing violence explain how difficult it is to secure a universal definition of child abuse and maltreatment.…”

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The Many Faces of Child Emotional Maltreatment

Rokach¹

2021

J Psychi Res Rev Rep

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Emotional maltreatment is a form of child abuse that may leave no physical scars, but has deep and long-term consequences. When compared to the effects of physical and sexual abuse, its impact has been historically neglected by researchers, despite its existence in all other forms of maltreatment. Beyond its recipient, the alarming effects of emotional abuse are believed to overcome even trans-generational barriers within the household. This poses great risks to the developmental outcomes of children having undergone these circumstances and their future kin. As such, this brief review will describe the signs of emotional maltreatment, its effects, and what can be done to address it.

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Young people and young adults’ experiences with child abuse and maltreatment: Meaning making, conceptualizations, and dealing with violence

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

Children’s Disclosure of Physical Abuse - The Process of Disclosing and the Responses from Social Welfare Workers

Children’s Disclosure of Physical Abuse - The Process of Disclosing and the Responses from Social Welfare Workers

Negotiating deficiency: Exploring ethnic minority parents' narratives about encountering child welfare services in Norway

The Many Faces of Child Emotional Maltreatment

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