Child mental health practitioners' perspectives on providing support for families where there is intimate partner violence: navigating complex family relationships and fear at home

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES

Child Abuse & Neglect Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107442

Claire Powell , Emma Jones , Gene Feder , Ruth Gilbert , Antigoni Gkaravella , Emma Howarth , Karen Johns , Ursula Lindenberg , Lauren Herlitz

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Abstract

Background

Children who experience and are victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) between their parents or carers are at greater risk of mental health problems and are more likely to use mental health services. Prevalence studies suggest that between 10 and 35 % of children attending children and young people's mental health services (CYPMHS) have experienced parental IPV. Despite forming a considerable proportion of practitioner caseloads, we have limited knowledge of CYPMHS practitioner perspectives on working with children who have experienced parental IPV.

Objective

To understand the perspective of CYPMHS practitioners on providing support for children who have experienced parental IPV.

Methods

Secondary qualitative analysis of interview transcripts from a wider study.

Participants and setting: Nine CYMPHS practitioners from three areas of England.

Results

We constructed four themes: 1) Understanding family contexts and fear: time and complexity; 2) Supporting the non-abusing parent: empathy, understanding and conflict; 3) Interacting with abusing parents: fear of causing harm and lack of confidence; 4) Teams of superheroes: the hope and the challenges.

Conclusions

The findings suggest that working with children who have experienced IPV adds additional complexity for CYMPHS practitioners. They would benefit from specialist domestic abuse input to support them to understand post-separation abuse and to interact with both the abusing and non-abusing parent.

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儿童心理健康从业人员关于为存在亲密伴侣暴力的家庭提供支持的观点：处理复杂的家庭关系和家庭恐惧

经历过父母或照顾者之间亲密伴侣暴力并成为其受害者的儿童出现精神健康问题的风险更大，也更有可能使用精神卫生服务。流行病学研究表明，在接受儿童和青少年精神卫生服务（CYPMHS）的儿童中，有10%至35%的儿童经历过父母的IPV。尽管形成了相当大比例的执业病例，但我们对CYPMHS执业医师在与经历过父母IPV的儿童一起工作方面的知识有限。目的了解CYPMHS从业人员对父母IPV患儿提供支持的看法。方法对广泛研究的访谈记录进行二次定性分析。参与者和环境：来自英格兰三个地区的九名CYMPHS从业者。结果构建了四个主题：1)理解家庭情境与恐惧：时间与复杂性；2)支持非虐待父母：共情、理解和冲突；3)与施虐父母互动：害怕造成伤害，缺乏自信；4)超级英雄团队：希望与挑战。结论：研究结果表明，与经历过IPV的儿童一起工作增加了CYMPHS从业者的复杂性。他们将受益于专家的家庭虐待意见，以帮助他们了解分离后的虐待，并与虐待和非虐待的父母互动。

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Child Abuse & Neglect Multiple-

CiteScore

7.40

自引率

10.40%

发文量

397

期刊介绍： Official Publication of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Child Abuse & Neglect The International Journal, provides an international, multidisciplinary forum on all aspects of child abuse and neglect, with special emphasis on prevention and treatment; the scope extends further to all those aspects of life which either favor or hinder child development. While contributions will primarily be from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, law enforcement, legislature, education, and anthropology, the Journal encourages the concerned lay individual and child-oriented advocate organizations to contribute.