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This is a recording of Youthlaw's Law Week 2021 event which explored the issues and complexities of working with adolescents who use violence in the home, many of whom are also victims of violence themselves.
A review and synthesis of Australian and New Zealand research on correlates and predictors of child to parent violence.
This chapter explores ways of understanding and responding to the problem of adolescent to parent violence, focusing on the tension between recognising the harm caused by violence and the suffering of a parent victim, without over-criminalising children who use this violence.
This research paper reviews the current literature relating to adolescent violence in the home, identifies known best practice, and evaluates the importance of taking a family-focused, therapeutic approach to adolescent family violence, in place of a punitive one.
his qualitative pilot study explored Canadian adoptive, kinship and customary caregivers’ considerations of their child’s rights to support and to be heard as they navigated the challenging context of their child’s aggressive behaviour towards them and other family members.
Developed by UK Trauma Council, this video provides a general introduction to what happens in the brain after children face traumatic experiences in childhood, like abuse and neglect.
Dr Kyra Low is a Forensic Psychologist and the Manager of Youth Rehabilitation Programs at Justice Health, Department of Justice and Community Safety. Kyra highlights the current Youth Justice response for adolescent offenders who use family violence, some of the challenges experienced by Youth Justice and service providers in responding to these young people, and strategies to address these challenges.
An interview with Assistant Commissioner Dean McWhirter (Family Violence Command, Victoria Police) about practical issues when faced with responding to adolescent violence in the home, and addressing how services might collaborate to intervene earlier.
