Penelope E. Lowe, Sally McManus, Pardis Asadi Zeidabadi, Ravi K. Thiara, Sumanta Roy, Estela Capelas Barbosa, Ladan Hashemi
{"title":"Black and Minoritized Women’s Experiences of Specialist Domestic Violence Services in the United Kingdom (UK): A Scoping Review","authors":"Penelope E. Lowe, Sally McManus, Pardis Asadi Zeidabadi, Ravi K. Thiara, Sumanta Roy, Estela Capelas Barbosa, Ladan Hashemi","doi":"10.1177/15248380251335038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251335038","url":null,"abstract":"This scoping review maps the existing available literature on Black and minoritized women’s experiences with specialist Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) services in the UK to summarize current understanding and identify knowledge gaps. A comprehensive search was conducted across multiple databases and gray literature sources. All articles had to include Black and minoritized women’s experiences of DVA services. In total, 29 UK-based studies published between 2000 and 2024 were identified. Data were synthesized to identify key themes and gaps. Thematic analysis of the findings revealed three main themes: additional service needs, barriers to accessing support, and the pivotal role of “by and for” services. Our review concludes that “by and for” services—provided by and for minoritized women—which adopt an intersectional approach are crucial in addressing the unique needs of Black and minoritized “survivor–victims”, particularly in terms of language support, practical assistance, and community-related support. There is a need for more peer-reviewed literature to recognize the role of “by and for” services, using diverse methodologies to support Black and minoritized communities better.","PeriodicalId":54211,"journal":{"name":"Trauma Violence & Abuse","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143866966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on Turkish and U.S. Teachers as Mandated Reporters of Child Abuse and Neglect: A Comparative Scoping Review","authors":"Ozan Selcuk, Kate Phillippo","doi":"10.1177/15248380251329479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251329479","url":null,"abstract":"Child abuse and neglect remain, unfortunately, a pervasive issue worldwide. Teachers play a critical role in identifying and reporting suspected child abuse and neglect and are often considered the “front line” due to their daily access to children. Although teachers are required to report suspected child abuse and neglect, concerns have arisen about teachers’ capability due to international instances of under- and overreporting. We therefore turned to empirical evidence to better understand teachers’ capacity to serve as accurate, well-informed mandated reporters. This comparative scoping review explored the extent and nature of empirical, peer-reviewed research on teachers’ mandatory reporting in Türkiye and the United States, countries that present contrasts in the mandatory reporting laws’ longevity and cultural norms about responsibility for children’s well-being. We followed Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis-Scoping Review guidelines. We manually identified studies from seven electronic databases: ASOS Index, DergiPark, ERIC, SCOPUS, SOBIAD, ULAKBİM, and Web of Science. This search process identified 52 empirical studies. Findings shed light on the challenges and concerns surrounding teachers’ mandatory reporting responsibilities in both countries, particularly limited opportunities to learn about reporting requirements, the recognition of abuse and neglect, and multiple rationales for teachers’ hesitancy to report. However, some evidence also indicates the effectiveness of teacher training with regard to teachers’ policy understanding, confidence in recognition skills, and reporting frequency. These findings inform implications for policy development, teacher professional development, and subsequent research in both countries.","PeriodicalId":54211,"journal":{"name":"Trauma Violence & Abuse","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143866725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum for \"Which Factors in a Child Welfare Worker's Environment Influence Their Decision-Making About Neglect? A Systematic Narrative Literature Review\".","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/15248380251338073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251338073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54211,"journal":{"name":"Trauma Violence & Abuse","volume":"7 1","pages":"15248380251338073"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143857346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Padideh Hassanpour,Sanika Panwalkar,L B Klein,Jeneile Luebke,Taylan T S Stulting,Kate Walsh
{"title":"Measures Assessing Barriers and Facilitators to Post-Sexual Violence Services: A Critical Review.","authors":"Padideh Hassanpour,Sanika Panwalkar,L B Klein,Jeneile Luebke,Taylan T S Stulting,Kate Walsh","doi":"10.1177/15248380251330319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251330319","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual violence (SV) is a significant public health problem associated with poor health, social, and economic outcomes. Although services exist to support survivors of SV, many do not access these services. This critical review examines measures used to assess barriers and facilitators to post-SV services and whether these measures address the full breadth of concerns among SV survivors, particularly those who hold marginalized identities. Eligible studies had to be original and peer-reviewed, include a measure of barriers or facilitators to service-seeking, and focus on SV survivors. We reviewed 10 measures that assessed barriers and/or facilitators to mental health, medical, advocacy, and legal services among SV survivors. These measures were designed for and/or applied to survivors of intimate partner violence, human trafficking, military sexual trauma, child sexual abuse, and adult sexual assault. Populations sampled included college students, military personnel, gender and sexual minority youth, women living with HIV, and crime victims seeking legal services. Using a social-ecological model approach, we assessed barriers at the individual, interpersonal/community/provider, and structural/organizational levels. Barriers at the community level were largely absent, and only three measures addressed facilitators. Five measures provided some psychometric data with survivors, and only three incorporated survivor feedback in their development. Four measures included some cultural and/or identity-specific factors. Future research should prioritize the development of trauma- and violence-informed measures that incorporate survivor feedback and address diverse cultural and identity contexts to improve service access and utilization.","PeriodicalId":54211,"journal":{"name":"Trauma Violence & Abuse","volume":"7 1","pages":"15248380251330319"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143846305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adolescents’ Experiences of Parental Intimate Partner Violence: A Review of Qualitative Literature","authors":"Meghna Achar, Johnson Pradeep Ruben, Susan Thomas","doi":"10.1177/15248380251329488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251329488","url":null,"abstract":"There is a growing body of qualitative research documenting the experiences of children growing up in the context of parental intimate partner violence (PIPV). Adolescents form an especially vulnerable group; yet there persists a systematic marginalization of their PIPV experiences in child maltreatment and violence exposure research. Qualitative research on adolescent PIPV perspectives can potentially amplify their voices and emphasize their unmet support needs and their developmentally unique strengths in achieving resilient outcomes. This can further inform adolescent- and youth-specific community and clinical intervention development and larger policy reform. This qualitative literature review includes 33 studies identified through an online research database search. Qualitative or mixed methods primary research studies that sampled adolescent participants aged from 13 to 19 years, published in English in peer-reviewed journals, and objectivizing any aspect of adolescent PIPV experience were included. Quality was assessed using the Critical Appraisal Skills Program checklist. Findings across studies were synthesized into eight overarching themes: Stifled Freedom and Autonomy; The Parentified Protector; Coping through Mental Escape, Creative Expression, and Cultural Identity; Older, Stronger, and Smarter during PIPV; Polyvictimization; Gender, Violence Acceptability and Dating Violence; and Felt Support Needs. This review sets the agenda for further qualitative, adolescent-first inquiry into the experiences of adolescents growing up with interparental violence, especially in low- to middle-income countries where intimate partner and spousal violence along with children and adolescents’ experience of it are doubly prevalent compared to the developed world.","PeriodicalId":54211,"journal":{"name":"Trauma Violence & Abuse","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Craig A. Harper, Rebecca Lievesley, Nadine McKillop, Stephanie Price, Rachel Murphy, Ellie Woodward, Harriet Dymond, Christian Götzl
{"title":"Misrepresenting the “MAP” Literature Does Little to Advance Child Abuse Prevention: A Critical Commentary and Response to Farmer, Salter, and Woodlock","authors":"Craig A. Harper, Rebecca Lievesley, Nadine McKillop, Stephanie Price, Rachel Murphy, Ellie Woodward, Harriet Dymond, Christian Götzl","doi":"10.1177/15248380251332197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251332197","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent paper published in <jats:italic>Trauma, Violence, & Abuse</jats:italic> , Farmer et al. purport to have critically examined the academic use of the term “Minor Attracted Persons” (MAPs) in published social science research. In the paper, their stated aims are to “understand how this body of scholarship defines and uses the terminology of MAP, conceptualizes sexual interest in minors, and its relationship with child sex offending, and the implications for child protection and safeguarding” (p. 4079). However, we believe that there are significant problems in their handling of this topic, their depth of analysis, and the selective reporting of research in the review that may demonstrate an inherent confirmation bias.","PeriodicalId":54211,"journal":{"name":"Trauma Violence & Abuse","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary and Call for Papers","authors":"Jon R. Conte","doi":"10.1177/15248380251332196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251332196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54211,"journal":{"name":"Trauma Violence & Abuse","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Salter, Delanie Woodlock, Christina Farmer
{"title":"The Terminology of “Minor Attracted People” and the Campaign to De-stigmatize Paedophilia Originated in Pro-pedophile Advocacy","authors":"Michael Salter, Delanie Woodlock, Christina Farmer","doi":"10.1177/15248380251332198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251332198","url":null,"abstract":"This note presents our response to commentary critical of our paper “A Review of Academic Use of the Term ‘Minor Attracted Persons’.” We observe that this commentary does not engage with our primary argument, conclusions, or recommendations. The authors failed to consult the supplementary material published alongside our article, failed to consider our inclusion and exclusion criteria, and spuriously accused us of underlying bias and a secret agenda. Our core criticisms of scholarship on “minor attracted people” have been left unanswered by their commentary.","PeriodicalId":54211,"journal":{"name":"Trauma Violence & Abuse","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sabela Pérez-Martín, Paula Frieiro, Carmen Verde-Diego, Iria Vázquez Silva
{"title":"Institutional Sexism Against Women Subjected to Gender-Based Violence and their Children. An International Systematic Review.","authors":"Sabela Pérez-Martín, Paula Frieiro, Carmen Verde-Diego, Iria Vázquez Silva","doi":"10.1177/15248380251325213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251325213","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Institutional sexism emerges as a globally pervasive phenomenon, adversely affecting women subjected to gender-based violence. This societal harm demands scrupulous investigation to curtail its occurrence. To this end, a meticulous synthesis and scrutiny of international literature was undertaken via a systematic review, in adherence to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis declaration and standards, employing an inductive content analysis methodology. This exhaustive enquiry spanned esteemed databases, namely Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, and PsycINFO, culminating in a total of 478 references, from which 27 select articles were rigorously examined. The <i>Rayyan</i> utility was instrumental in streamlining data organization and extraction, while textual coding and data analysis were accomplished through <i>Atlas.ti</i>. The review protocol was preregistered with PROSPERO, the International prospective register of systematic reviews (ID CRD42023436945). The outcomes highlight the critical need for states to give precedence to the development of policies that champion gender equality. Furthermore, the analysis reveals a pronounced deficiency in understanding the dynamics of gender-based violence, as well as a conspicuous neglect of feminist and intersectional perspectives by professionals within the legal and social realms.</p>","PeriodicalId":54211,"journal":{"name":"Trauma Violence & Abuse","volume":" ","pages":"15248380251325213"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143765822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victoria Banyard, Kaltrina Kelmendi, Susan Yoon, Sherry Hamby
{"title":"The Role of Resilience Portfolios in Overcoming Trauma.","authors":"Victoria Banyard, Kaltrina Kelmendi, Susan Yoon, Sherry Hamby","doi":"10.1177/15248380241309380","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15248380241309380","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This special issue offers a series of papers that use the resilience portfolio model (RPM) to explore multidimensional, strength-based approaches to resilience in a wide variety of communities. The field is urgently in need of research that helps identify the factors that help people thrive despite exposure to violence and other trauma. We need to know how people typically overcome victimization and other adverse experiences if we are going to improve intervention and minimize the global burden of trauma. The series of papers in this issue consider resilience portfolios across geographic locations, forms of violence and trauma, communities, and age groups. In this introduction, we synthesize key themes in four RPM domains: meaning making, regulatory, interpersonal, and environmental. We use these themes to describe a revised RPM and implications for future research and practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":54211,"journal":{"name":"Trauma Violence & Abuse","volume":"26 2","pages":"209-219"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143532153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}