| Adopted children and education: the experiences of a specialist CAMHS team. |
| Summary: Discusses the importance for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) practitioners to work closely with schools and adoptive parents to help adopted children manage their lives in school. Draws on clinical experience to describe some of the difficulties that arise for parents and children in managing the education system. Considers the impact of abuse and neglect on children and the impact of being separated from siblings. |
| Publication details: Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 141-150 |
| Authors: Barratt, Sara |
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Preventive orientations in children’s centres: a study of centre managers.
| Preventive orientations in children’s centres: a study of centre managers. |
| Summary: Looks at the preventive approach of children’s centres and their managers. A qualitative study (interviews) was undertaken with twenty children’s centre managers in a rural local authority in England. Results showed that managers drew quite explicitly on the general concept of prevention in the conduct of their work. However, there were differences in those who emphasised universalism in the provision of services and those who saw the need to focus on higher levels of need. |
| Publication details: British Journal of Social Work Volume 42 Issue 2, 2012 pp 265-282 |
| Authors: Sheppard, Michael |
Redefining family relationships following adoption: adoptive parents’ perspectives on the changing nature of kinship between adoptees and birth relatives.
| Redefining family relationships following adoption: adoptive parents’ perspectives on the changing nature of kinship between adoptees and birth relatives. |
| Summary: Draws on data from a series of biographical interviews with 22 parents and adopted children within the UK over a 24 year period, in order to explore post adoption family relationships from the perspective of adoptive parents. Discusses findings in relation to maintaining family ties between adoptees and their birth relatives, sources of fragility within family relationships following adoption, and supporting direct and mediated contact. Concludes that this study highlights the complexities involved in the reshaping of family relationships between adoptees and birth relatives following adoption and points towards a need for more proactive facilitation of post-adoption relationships by adoption support professionals. Recommends that where possible, formal contact arrangements should build on existing family practices if they are to be meaningful to those facing the challenge of ‘redrawing the boundaries of kinship’. |
| Publication details: British Journal of Social Work Volume 42 Issue 2, 2012 pp 283-299 |
| Authors: Jones, Christine, and Hackett, Simon |
Marital conflict, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and allostatic load: interrelations and associations with the development of children’s externalizing behavior.
| Marital conflict, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and allostatic load: interrelations and associations with the development of children’s externalizing behavior. |
| Summary: Uses data relating to children’s respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA – the cyclical change in heart rate that occurs in correspondence with breathing rhythm) and their exposure to parental conflict to analyse how their bodies cope with heightened levels of stress. Focuses on two independent samples with repeated measures at ages 8,9,10 and 11. Also looks at the relationship between RSA and children’s externalising behaviour. Finds a negative relationship between boys’ initial resting RSA and externalising symptoms, with results for girls proving more mixed. |
| Publication details: Development and Psychopathology Volume 23 Issue 3, 2011 pp 815-829 |
| Authors: El-Sheikh, Mona, and Hinnant, J. Benjamin |
Childhood maltreatment, adult attachment, and depression as predictors of parental self-efficacy in at-risk mothers.
| Childhood maltreatment, adult attachment, and depression as predictors of parental self-efficacy in at-risk mothers. |
| Summary: Examines the effects of childhood abuse on the attachment styles and mental health of mothers, in particular the relationship with depression. Emotional abuse was found to predict more anxious attachment and maternal depression. |
| Publication details: Journal of Aggression Maltreatment and Trauma Volume 20 Issue 6, 2011 pp 595-616 |
| Authors: Caldwell, Jon G., et al. |
Targeting children of substance-using parents with the community-based group intervention
| Targeting children of substance-using parents with the community-based group intervention TRAMPOLINE: a randomised controlled trial – design, evaluation, recruitment issues. |
| Summary: Describes a protocol to test the effectiveness of TRAMPOLINE, a group programme aimed at children aged 8-12 years with at least one substance-abusing or substance-dependent caregiver delivered in Germany. Includes a literature review of interventions for families where there are substance abusing parents. It hypothesises that the addiction-specific group programme TRAMPOLINE will elicit superior effects in participating children as compared with participants in an addiction-unrelated play group on several relevant indicators such as coping skills or psychological distress. This study is the first in Germany to develop and evaluate a programme for children of substance-abusing parents. Limitations and strengths are discussed with a special focus on recruitment challenges as they appear to be the most potent threat to feasibility in this difficult-to-access target group. |
| Publication details: BMC Public Health Volume 12 Issue 223, 2012 pp 1-20 |
| Authors: Broning, Sonja, et al. |
| Victim of and witness to violence: an interactional perspective on mothers’ perceptions of children exposed to intimate partner violence. |
| Summary: Outlines findings from a study into how mothers felt the effects of domestic violence during pregnancy and children’s exposure to domestic violence. Looks at responses from a sample of 137 help-seeking mothers in Norway. Looks at the relationship between the severity of the intimate partner violence, the age of the child, and the length of the partnership and the risk posed to the child. |
| Publication details: Violence and Victims Volume 26 Issue 6, 2011 pp 830-852 |
| Authors: Vatnar, Solveig Karin Bo, and Bjorkly, Stal |
Examining gender differences in the relationship between dating violence victimization and anger in college students.
| Examining gender differences in the relationship between dating violence victimization and anger in college students. |
| Summary: Reports on a study examining the associations between physical and psychological victimisation experiences and measures of anger in 200 male and female undergraduates in the US. Findings suggest that men’s victimisation was more strongly associated with different forms of anger than women’s victimisation. |
| Publication details: Violence and Victims Volume 27 Issue 1, 2012 pp 70-77 |
| Authors: Rutter, Lauren A., and Weatherill, Robin P., and Taft, Casey T., and Orazem, Robert J. |
An examination of the association between difficulties with emotion regulation and dating violence perpetration.
| An examination of the association between difficulties with emotion regulation and dating violence perpetration. |
| Summary: Discusses the link between the regulation of emotions and dating violence in a sample of college students in the United States, indicating a role for work on emotional skills to prevent aggression and violence in dating relationships. |
| Publication details: Journal of Aggression Maltreatment and Trauma Volume 20 Issue 8, 2011 pp 870-885 |
| Authors: Shorey, Ryan C., et al. |
The enemy within: 4 million reasons to tackle family conflict and family violence.
| The enemy within: 4 million reasons to tackle family conflict and family violence. |
| Summary: Research on the extent of conflict and violence in families in the UK, looking at how violence threatens lives, breaks up families, and has ongoing psychological and physical effects on children. Found that 53% of families with children experience serious or frequent conflict. The report makes recommendations, including widening the definition of domestic violence to fully encapsulate family violence, stretching beyond intimate partners to include parent-on-child violence, adolescent-on-parent violence, extended family violence and domestic violence carried out by perpetrators under 18. It also recommends introduction of a whole family approach to responding to family violence, and moving to an early intervention approach. More detailed findings from the research are also discussed. Looks at the impact of violence on children’s brains and development, and on parents’ ability to parent. Discusses whether Britain is doing enough to respond to family violence and prevent crisis, and highlights gaps in the current approach. |
| Publication details: London: 4Children, 2012 pp 55 |
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