Children of extremist parents: Insights from a specialized clinical team.

IF 1.8 4区医学 Q3 PSYCHIATRY

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2023-08-04 DOI:10.1177/13591045231192340

Cécile Rousseau, Diana Miconi, Janique Johnson-Lafleur, Christian Desmarais, Ghayda Hassan

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Abstract

Background: Data on children who grow up with parents adhering to violent extremism is scant. This makes it extremely delicate to inform policies and clinical services to protect such children from potential physical and psychological harm.

Objective: This paper explores the predicament of children whose caretakers were referred to a specialized clinical team in Montreal (Canada) because of concerns about risks or actual involvement in violent extremism processes.

Methods: This paper uses a mixed methods concurrent triangulation design. Quantitative data was obtained through a file review (2016-2020). Qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews and a focus group with the team practitioners.

Results: Clinicians reported the presence of stereotypes in the health and social services network frequently representing religious extremist parents as potentially dangerous or having inappropriate parenting skills while minimizing the perception of risk for parents adhering to political extremism. Children displayed high levels of psychological distress, mainly related to family separation, parental psychopathology, and conflicts of loyalty stemming from familial or social alienation.

Conclusions: Training practitioners to be aware of their own personal and institutional bias may help them to understand the predicament of extremist parents' children and implement systemic, trauma and attachment informed interventions.

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极端主义父母的子女：来自专业临床团队的见解。

背景：有关在父母信奉暴力极端主义的环境中成长的儿童的数据很少。这使得为保护这类儿童免受潜在身心伤害的政策和临床服务提供信息变得极为微妙：本文探讨了蒙特利尔（加拿大）因担心儿童有参与暴力极端主义进程的风险或实际参与该进程而将其照顾者转介至专门临床小组的儿童的困境：本文采用混合方法并行三角测量设计。定量数据通过档案审查（2016-2020 年）获得。定性数据通过半结构化访谈和与团队从业人员的焦点小组收集：临床医生报告称，在卫生和社会服务网络中存在陈规定型观念，经常将宗教极端主义父母视为潜在危险或具有不恰当的养育技能，而将坚持政治极端主义的父母的风险感降到最低。儿童的心理压力很大，主要与家庭分离、父母心理变态以及因家庭或社会疏离而产生的忠诚冲突有关：对从业人员进行培训，使他们意识到自己的个人和机构偏见，这有助于他们了解极端主义父母的子女所处的困境，并实施系统的、以创伤和依恋为基础的干预措施。

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Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry PSYCHIATRY-PSYCHOLOGY

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3.60

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5.60%

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130

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