{"title":"Re: Let's not overlook those children who are subject to ‘Care Orders at home’.","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/car.2899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2899","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"33 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141986064","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":"The effect of beliefs and self-efficacy on the levels of sexual abuse-related anxiety in parents of children with disabilities","authors":"Filiz Özkan, Nurcan Uzdil, Serkan Karakaya, Bülent Köseoğlu","doi":"10.1002/car.2896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2896","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy, sexual abuse-related anxiety and belief levels of the parents of children receiving special education support. The study was descriptively conducted with the parents of 141 students who received special education in primary school in Kayseri in the 2021–2022 academic year. Parent information form, Parental Beliefs Form on Child Sexual Abuse (PBFCSA), Sexual Abuse Parental Anxiety Scale (SAPAS) and Parental Self-Efficacy Instrument for Children with Disabilities (PSICD) were used in the study. Independent samples <i>t</i> test, Pearson rank correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression analysis were used for data analysis. In the study, statistically significant and positive correlations were found between parental beliefs about sexual abuse and anxiety about sexual abuse (r = 0.318; 95% CI [0.188, 0.438]), between anxiety about sexual abuse and parental self-efficacy (r = 0.389; 95% CI [0.213, 0.531]) and between parental beliefs about sexual abuse and parental self-efficacy (r = 0.324; 95% CI [0.116, 0.514]). In the study, it was found that 24.4% of parental anxiety was explained by parental self-efficacy, beliefs about sexual abuse, parent status, working status and age. In the study, a weak but positive and significant relationship was found between parental beliefs about sexual abuse and anxiety about sexual abuse. It is recommended that studies should be conducted to determine appropriate coping methods for parents' concerns about sexual abuse and to monitor changes in their beliefs and self-efficacy. In addition, it is predicted that applied studies addressing self-efficacy and beliefs should be conducted to understand how levels of anxiety might be reduced.</p>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"33 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141980295","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":"Development and initial validation of the me and my child interview to assess parental acceptance–rejection","authors":"Adriana Carrolino, Joana Baptista","doi":"10.1002/car.2895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2895","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parental acceptance–rejection exerts a key influence on child psychological adjustment. The present study aimed to contribute to this topic by focusing on the development and initial validation of a new assessment tool—that is, the Me & My Child: The Parental Acceptance-Rejection Interview. The study included 69 mothers with children aged two to 12 years. In addition to the interview, mothers completed the Me as a Parent questionnaire, which assessed parental self-regulation to test for convergent validity, as well as the short version of the Mental Health Inventory, which assessed maternal psychological problems to test for discriminant validity. Significant associations were found between higher levels of maternal acceptance and self-efficacy and self-management. Furthermore, mothers exposed to more socioeconomic risk factors in the family showed lower levels of parental acceptance. Conversely, no significant associations were observed between maternal acceptance–rejection and mental health symptoms. The intraclass correlation coefficient was found to be excellent. Overall, the findings support the Me and My Child Interview as a helpful tool for assessing parental acceptance–rejection. However, further research is required, given the exploratory nature of this study.</p>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"33 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967769","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":"Bringing ‘care’ back into locked residential institutions: What can we learn from adolescents' experiences of secure care?","authors":"Mathilde Turcotte, François Fenchel","doi":"10.1002/car.2891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2891","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Canada and elsewhere, efforts have been made to regulate the use of secure care on welfare grounds. Yet, studies raise questions about its usefulness as a psychosocial intervention since it appears to be mostly experienced as a punishment. The main objective of the current study was therefore to explore adolescents' experiences of secure care. We conducted qualitative interviews with 25 adolescents aged 14 to 17 years old while they were placed in secure care units in the province of Quebec, Canada. Uncertainty regarding how to exit secure care was the most important theme that emerged. Participants did not always understand the words used by practitioners to frame their expectations. Adolescents were also uncertain about how to prove they no longer presented a risk to others or themselves while being in locked settings. This uncertainty generated a lot of anger and distress. To get some control back, adolescents chose to just comply and pretend to agree with practitioners. The present paper questions the utility and even legitimacy of secure care as it is currently used. However, we argue that if an ethic of care predominated our conceptualisation of secure care, rather than an ethic of justice, adolescents could feel both secure and cared for.</p>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"33 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967776","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":"‘My childhood life falling apart’: A retrospective study of young carers managing parental mental illness in Taiwan","authors":"Esabella Hsiu-Wen Yuan, Yeun-Wen Ku","doi":"10.1002/car.2893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2893","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The population of young carers of parents with mental illness is more likely to be hidden in the community due to the family's concerns related to stigma. Many young carers struggle with caring difficulties with a lack of social support. The aim of this study was to gain insight into the difficulties of young carers managing parental mental illness in Taiwan from retrospective perspectives. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 participants who used to be young carers of parents with mental illness. Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. Three themes emerged. First, participants experienced grief over the loss of their parent's normality and the disruption of the parent–child relationship. Having to deal with issues alone, they described their childhood lives as falling apart. Second, families tended to conceal mental illness by refusing to seek outside support, resulting in young carers struggling in vulnerable situations. Third, participants used coping strategies to find a balance between maintaining parental mental illness and reducing the impact on their well-being. Most participants used solitary strategies to cope with their emotional distress. Some participants used destructive ways to suppress their pain and sorrow when there seemed no way to improve their family situation. The findings reflect on the vulnerabilities of young carers of parents with mental illness. Services and practitioners should work together to recognise young carers' identities and provide suitable resources to young carers to help them deal with life crises and meet their developmental needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"33 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141597139","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":"Case recording in child protection: An exploration of the evidence base and good practice","authors":"Rebecca O'Keefe","doi":"10.1002/car.2894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2894","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is a statutory duty for all practitioners to record information in child protection work in England. Case recording is a daily task for practitioners, yet an under-researched area of practice. This continuing professional development (CPD) paper will consider the context in which case recording takes place and highlight messages from child protection reviews and enquiries before exploring learning from contemporary research. The complexities of case recording will be considered and how practitioners can reflect upon and improve their daily case recording skills. Practitioners are encouraged to keep the child's views and experiences central and consider the long-term impact of case recording on adults who have experienced abuse and neglect in childhood.</p>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"33 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608014","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}
Celal Butun, Fatma Yucel Beyaztas, Seda Aybuke Sari, Ayla Uzun Çiçek, Asiye Burcu Kaya
{"title":"Evaluation of incest cases in Sivas: Ten-year retrospective study","authors":"Celal Butun, Fatma Yucel Beyaztas, Seda Aybuke Sari, Ayla Uzun Çiçek, Asiye Burcu Kaya","doi":"10.1002/car.2888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2888","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although incest is generally perceived as all kinds of verbal, non-verbal, physical and visual sexual behaviour of family members and close relatives toward children, it is also a special type of sexual abuse defined as consensual sexual intercourse between close relatives or between minors who are legally prohibited from marrying. This study aimed to analyse the sociodemographic data, physical-mental examination and laboratory findings of the incest cases. Incest cases among sexual abuse and sexual assault cases sent to Sivas Cumhuriyet University Hospital Forensic Medicine outpatient clinic for examination between 2012 and 2021 were evaluated. Statistical analysis of the data was performed using the SPSS 23.0 program. <i>P</i>-values below 0.05 were considered significant. The records of 61 incest victims were retrospectively analysed. The cases were examined in terms of age, gender, incident, perpetrator, type of abuse, examination findings and mental status. Fifty-four (88.5%) of the incest victims were female, and the highest rate (<i>n</i> = 9, 14.8%) was 16 years old. Most of the victims were high school graduates (29%), 56% were in a nuclear family 57.4% of the assailants were family members, most of the case reports (73.8%) were made by the victim herself/himself, and the most common place of incident (70.3%) was the victim's home. In this study, the clinical, social and forensic outcomes of incest cases, which have many causes and tragic consequences, were investigated, and it was aimed to contribute to the solution of the problem by discussing the literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"33 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141583873","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}
John Devaney, Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Amy Charles, Helen L. Daniel, Emily Dobie, Ellen Marks, Katherine Osthwaite, Julie Taylor
{"title":"Early maternal death following child removal—A short report using observational data","authors":"John Devaney, Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Amy Charles, Helen L. Daniel, Emily Dobie, Ellen Marks, Katherine Osthwaite, Julie Taylor","doi":"10.1002/car.2892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2892","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There continues to be a significant and growing number of children in the care of the state in the United Kingdom (McGhee et al., <span>2017</span>). Children come into state care for a variety of reasons and through a number of different legal routes. Alongside concern about the overall number and the quality of care afforded to some of these children, there are also recurring worries about the immediate and longer term outcomes for this group of children (Duncan, <span>2020</span>; MacAllister, <span>2022</span>). This is not the same as saying that many of these children do not need alternative care.</p><p>There is a common thread of children having experienced a range of adversities, including maltreatment, parental mental ill-health, loss, and poverty, which shape their pre- and in-care experiences, and impact on their social and emotional well-being (Baldwin et al., 2019). While the above issues have been widely researched, there is, however, less information known about the outcomes for children's parents once the child comes into care.</p><p>Over the past decade in the United Kingdom, there has been a growing recognition that some parents, and in particular mothers, experience recurrent removals (Broadhurst & Mason, <span>2013</span>). Research conducted in the United Kingdom and Australia suggests that approximately 20% of women who experience child removal experience repeat court-ordered removals (Broadhurst & Mason, <span>2017</span>; Hinton, <span>2018</span>). In the United Kingdom, this pattern of repeated removals has resulted in the development of services to offer support to address the immediate and successive impacts of such cumulative experiences (Broadhurst et al., <span>2015</span>). Services recognise that birth mothers have been largely offered a reduced level of intervention from children's services (and other sources) once children are removed from their care. This is in spite of the evidence that highlights that childhood adversity resulting in admission to care is often linked to unresolved parental experiences of adversity in their own childhood (Narayan et al., <span>2021</span>), manifesting in trauma symptomatology and behaviours associated with maladaptive coping mechanisms, such as problematic use of prescribed and illicit drugs.</p><p>As such, new approaches to working with mothers seek to offer an intensive rehabilitative response to parents following removal to address the underlying causes of why children needed to be removed, and through addressing the needs of mothers that merges emotional and practical trauma-informed support. As some of these services have been operating for nearly a decade, they have built up both expertise and a significant dataset based on the parents they have worked with. Such services have started to build a picture of the enduring impact on parents of the removal of children into care, as well as existing vulnerabilities prior to removal.</p><p>This paper sets out a coll","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"33 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/car.2892","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141583874","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":"The role of parents' attitudes towards children's use of communication technologies and school climate in coping with cyberbullying among high school students in Turkey","authors":"Beyza Yılmaz, Selin Nur Aydoğan, Elif Koçyiğit","doi":"10.1002/car.2890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2890","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, cyberbullying is discussed through the school–family–child triangle. The research was conducted to examine how high school students' coping levels with cyberbullying are affected by the school climate and their parents' attitudes towards children's use of information and communication technologies. The research, which was conducted with both parents and students, was carried out with a quantitative method, survey model, and relational design. The data collection tool prepared for students consists of the sociodemographic information questionnaire, the Coping with Cyberbullying Scale and the School Climate Scale. The data collection tool prepared for parents consists of the sociodemographic information questionnaire and the Parents' Attitudes Towards Children's Use of Information Communication Technologies Scale. Four hundred fifty students in the 9–11th grades and 203 parents studying in two public high schools in Çankaya district of Ankara province were reached. The answers given by the students and their parents to the questionnaires were analysed separately and by matching the parent and student questionnaires of the students whose parents also filled out the questionnaire. Of the students, 82.4% had encountered cyberbullying. Girls have higher coping skills with cyberbullying than boys (<i>p</i> < 0.05). Parents' control and restrictions on their children's technology use were found to be high.</p>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"33 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141536733","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}