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{"title":"Evidence-Informed Guidance for Working With Young People Using Abusive Behaviours","authors":"Sabrina Meechem,&nbsp;Bethan Taylor,&nbsp;Susie Hay,&nbsp;Suzanne Jacob","doi":"10.1002/car.70113","DOIUrl":"10.1002/car.70113","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The current paper offers guidance to practitioners working in some capacity with young people who are using abusive and harmful behaviours in their relationships. It highlights the significance of the working relationship between the practitioner and the young person and advocates for an approach that is holistic, supportive and judgement-free. The paper outlines literature evidencing the positive impact such an approach can have and is written for both specialist domestic abuse practitioners and practitioners working with young people across a range of sectors and organisations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Implementing a Formulation-Based Approach in Pre-Birth Assessments","authors":"Georgina Hepworth-Lodge,&nbsp;Hannah Windeatt","doi":"10.1002/car.70117","DOIUrl":"10.1002/car.70117","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Pre-birth assessments offer social workers a structured opportunity to assess parental capacity and identify both risks and support needs prior to the birth. When initiated early, these assessments can enable parents to make meaningful changes in advance of their child's arrival. Early identification of concerns allows parents greater opportunity to engage with support and, where appropriate, seek legal advice. An absence of early planning can result in rushed decisions, limited parental engagement and a lack of transparency in safeguarding processes (Barlow et al. &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;). A local authority (LA) in England, Kirklees, sought to fix this and the New Beginnings Pre-Birth Model was born.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By design, pre-birth assessments are inherently intrusive. They often require parents to disclose deeply personal and often traumatic life experiences to a practitioner with whom they may have little established trust. This dynamic can inhibit open engagement, leading to assessments based on incomplete information and reinforcing deficit-focused narratives around parental non-engagement (Rollins &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;). Yet, pre-birth assessment practice varies across England, with no national authorised guidance for good practice (Ward et al. &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). Following a report from the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (Alrouh et al. &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;) sharing concerning statistics regarding the number of babies entering care at birth, Kirklees LA identified the need to improve pre-birth interventions in our area, which led to the development of the New Beginnings programme.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The New Beginnings pre-birth model brings together key professionals at the earliest possible point of concerns being identified. Using principles of restorative practice, professionals work with parents to break down the barriers to providing a safe and secure environment for their baby. Partnership working is at the heart of New Beginnings, allowing ‘Parents and professionals [to] co-define needs and goals, and work collaboratively to identify and build on strengths throughout the pregnancy’ (Mason et al. &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Kirklees, pre-birth assessments are conducted using a Child and Family Assessment and fall under the category of Child in Need. The assessments are completed within 45 working days, which is significantly shorter than the previous assessment model (which aimed to have the assessment completed before 33 weeks gestation). This means that support needs are identified earlier and are more targeted before birth, giving a greater opportunity to support change to enable parents to care for their child safely, at home.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another major change is how the meetings are run. Instead of the social worker leading and minuting, an independent facilitator now chairs Child in Need meetings, using the 6Ps model (see Figure 1). This creates space for the social worker to focus fully on engaging with the family as well as addressing some of the power im","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/car.70117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment of the Knowledge, Awareness and Attitudes Regarding Child Abuse and Neglect Among Healthcare Professionals of Nepal","authors":"Ram Hari Chapagain,&nbsp;Santosh Adhikari,&nbsp;Tribhuwan Bhattarai,&nbsp;Apsara Pandey,&nbsp;Jasmine Ma,&nbsp;Jamuna Acharya,&nbsp;Deepak Upadhayay,&nbsp;Lok Raj Bhatt,&nbsp;Samana Sharma","doi":"10.1002/car.70115","DOIUrl":"10.1002/car.70115","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Child rights are a core component of human rights, yet child abuse and neglect remain underrecognized and represent a public health concern in Nepal. This study assessed the knowledge, awareness and attitudes of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals involved in childcare regarding child abuse and neglect and examined training adequacy and application in practice. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 370 healthcare professionals. Data were collected between September and November 2024 using a structured, pretested questionnaire and analysed using SPSS version 20 with descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that 56.2% of participants had a high level of knowledge of child abuse, while 87.3% demonstrated positive attitudes toward child protection. Practical application was limited: Only 13.5% had ever reported a suspected case, 5.1% felt confident in recognizing abuse and standardized screening tools were used by 36.5%. Training was significantly associated with positive attitudes (<i>p</i> = 0.001), and higher knowledge correlated with favourable attitudes (<i>p</i> = 0.001). Despite good knowledge and attitudes, gaps persist in confidence, reporting and implementation. Strengthening training, standardized screening, reporting awareness and interprofessional collaboration are essential to improve child protection practice in Nepal.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multicontextual Dissemination of Interparental Violence Among Adolescents in School and Cyber Contexts","authors":"Chunkai Li,&nbsp;Xiaochun Cheng,&nbsp;Ning Ding,&nbsp;Jiaping Li","doi":"10.1002/car.70116","DOIUrl":"10.1002/car.70116","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Exposure to interparental violence can have lasting effects on adolescents' emotional and social functioning, yet its role in bullying victimization across offline and online contexts remains unclear. This study examined whether difficulties in emotion regulation mediate this relationship and whether coping self-efficacy and gender act as moderators. A two-wave longitudinal sample of 629 adolescents (mean age = 14.05 years; 48.97% males) was collected from S City in mainland China. Half-longitudinal mediation and moderation models examined indirect and interaction effects, and multigroup path analysis explored potential gender differences. Results indicated that emotion regulation difficulties significantly mediated the association between exposure to interparental violence and both offline and online bullying victimization. Coping self-efficacy moderated the effect of exposure to interparental violence on emotion regulation difficulties, with higher coping self-efficacy unexpectedly associated with greater emotion regulation difficulties under exposure. The chi-square difference tests for individual paths were not statistically significant, indicating that the gender-specific patterns suggested by subgroup path estimates should be interpreted with caution. These findings provide a basis for developing interventions to reduce bullying victimization among adolescents exposed to interparental violence.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hege Stein Helland, Marit Skivenes, and Siri Gloppen (Eds.), Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights. Policy Press, 2025; ISBN 978-1-4473-7147-2 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1-4473-7149-6 (ePdf)","authors":"Ana-Maria Crivat,&nbsp;Hongli Wang","doi":"10.1002/car.70108","DOIUrl":"10.1002/car.70108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Children and Violence: Agency, Experience, and Representation in and Beyond Armed Conflict, By Christelle Molima Bameka, Jastine C. Barrett, Mohamed Kamara, Karl Hanson, and Mark A. Drumbl (eds.), London: Routledge, 2025. 270 pp. £155 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-03-271071-6","authors":"Ming Li","doi":"10.1002/car.70114","DOIUrl":"10.1002/car.70114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Are Mothers' Child-Liking Levels an Effective Factor in Shaping Parenting Styles? A Cross-Sectional Study","authors":"Damla Özçevik Subaşi,&nbsp;Ayfer Ekim Günaydın,&nbsp;Ayşe Ferda Ocakçı","doi":"10.1002/car.70112","DOIUrl":"10.1002/car.70112","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between the parenting styles of mothers with preschool-aged children and their levels of liking for children. This descriptive, cross-sectional study comprised 362 mothers with children aged 3–6 years. Data were collected between March and April 2023 using the ‘Participant Information Form’, the ‘Barnett Liking of Children Scale’ and the ‘Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire’. The collected data were then analysed using a variety of statistical methods, including descriptive statistics, the Mann–Whitney <i>U</i> test, the Kruskal–Wallis H test and Spearman correlation analysis. The mean scores for parenting styles were 66.4 ± 6.7 for authoritative, 16.7 ± 4.1 for authoritarian and 11.7 ± 3.5 for permissive styles. Parenting style scores differed significantly according to family structure, number of children, maternal education, marital status, employment status and income level (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.05). Spearman correlation analysis demonstrated a positive association between authoritative parenting style scores and child-liking scores (<i>r</i> = 0.368, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.001). In contrast, authoritarian and permissive parenting style scores were negatively associated with child-liking scores (<i>r</i> = −0.395, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.001; <i>r</i> = −0.209, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.001, respectively). The findings indicate that maternal parenting styles scores are associated with a range of sociodemographic factors. Higher authoritative scores are associated with higher levels of child liking, so that a mother with a high authoritative score is likely to have high child liking.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Training Student Nurses on Recognition and Reporting of Child Maltreatment: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study","authors":"Angela Karakachian,&nbsp;Alison Colbert,&nbsp;Melissa Kalarchian,&nbsp;Christina Pykett","doi":"10.1002/car.70111","DOIUrl":"10.1002/car.70111","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Nursing students lack the knowledge and skills for detecting and reporting cases of child maltreatment. Educating students on best practices for responding to cases of child maltreatment is complex, yet needed. Learning through simulation gives students the opportunity to develop critical thinking and enhance their decision-making skills with no risk of causing harm to victims who are already vulnerable, including children with disabilities. In this pilot study, nursing students (<i>N</i> = 72) were randomized to participate in live simulations with actors (<i>n</i> = 36) or to complete case studies with similar content (<i>n</i> = 36). Surveys were administered pre-educational and post-educational interventions. Both groups of students had a significant improvement in their comfort and confidence levels in detecting signs of supervisory neglect and signs of physical abuse, as well as in having the challenging conversations with parents/guardians of suspected victims, with no difference in change between groups. This study highlights the potential for educational interventions as an important first step in improving future nurses' response to child maltreatment, with further research needed on the optimal mode of delivery. Findings may help nurses provide comprehensive care to stop the cycle of child maltreatment.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Reflective Account of the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) Investigation Into Minority Religious Organisations and Settings","authors":"Richard Scorer","doi":"10.1002/car.70110","DOIUrl":"10.1002/car.70110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unequal Burdens: Law Enforcement Case Processing Time in Child Abuse and Non-Child Abuse Investigations","authors":"Kendra N. Bowen,&nbsp;Brae Young","doi":"10.1002/car.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Child abuse is a significant public health and social issue affecting over 600,000 children annually in the United States. Children's advocacy centres (CACs) play a crucial role in supporting law enforcement by providing resources and enhancing the investigative process. However, investigating child abuse cases remains complex and time-intensive, with limited research examining the law enforcement investigation process. This study seeks to address this gap by analysing the average processing time for physical and sexual child abuse cases compared to non-child abuse cases. Additionally, it examines how law enforcement allocates time across investigative stages and whether factors, such as CAC size and the colocation of law enforcement within CACs, influence investigation duration. The findings aim to enhance understanding of law enforcement's involvement in child abuse investigations and inform policies and practices that improve investigative efficiency and outcomes for child victims.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147288344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}