Interventions for children and young people who have experienced domestic violence and abuse

• Autores: Åsa Källström
• Localización: The Routledge International Handbook of Domestic Violence and Abuse / John Devaney (ed. lit.), Caroline Bradbury Jones (ed. lit.), Rebecca J. Macy (ed. lit.), Carolina Överlien (ed. lit.), Stephanie Holt (ed. lit.), 2021, ISBN 9780367686253, pág. 448
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The chapter discusses (1) how varying experiences of domestic violence affect children’s and young people’s need for professional support and interventions, (2) particular needs to be addressed in interventions, (3) the intervention models currently available, (4) what we can learn from children and young people about what they value in support interventions, and (5) challenges to developing and implementing interventions for children and young people. It concludes, among other things, that typologies of domestic violence can help us understand the different needs that children and young people have. Children who have experienced violence may especially need help to overcome perceptions that a relative perpetrated the violence out of hatred toward the child or as punishment, to become free from feelings of guilt and self-blame, and to be able to feel warmth from a parent. Programmes that have been evaluated and found to have robust designs and to produce good results are available, but strong evidence is still limited outside North America, and transferring programmes between cultures requires careful consideration. Assuming that for children and young people to willingly engage in intervention activities the activities must appear meaningful to them, the chapter suggests that the next steps for programme development include matching interventions with individual needs and balancing a child’s need to talk against the value of respecting the child’s integrity, and that more research is needed that examines which interventions or intervention components are most effective in addressing the unique parenting needs of women subjected to domestic violence as well as the differing individual needs of their children.