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Findings highlight the need for sustained specialist and therapeutic support to improve the emotional wellbeing of mothers and children and address their past/shared experiences of trauma; support young people’s emotion regulation capacities; improve parent–child communication; and reduce intra/extra-familial stressors. The systemic and ecological model has potential to inform practice assessments and intervention approaches through focusing holistically on young people’s contextualized understandings of violence.
The Victorian Law Reform Commission has initiated a community law reform project examining aspects of family violence intervention orders for children and young adults affected by family violence (other than as a respondent). This Issues Paper reflects Stage 1 of the project – Protection for children who turn 18 while on a Family Violence Intervention Order.
Irritability and aggression are among the most common reasons that children are referred to outpatient mental health services and represent symptoms of several child psychiatric disorders. Over the past 40 years, several types of psychosocial interventions have been developed to treat these problems. This review examines well-established interventions for childhood irritability and aggression as well as newer interventions with a growing evidence base.
Substance use has been associated with child-to-parent violence (CPV), yet little is known about the contributing factors. This study by Deakin University investigated the association between parental substance use and substance involved child to parent violence (SU-CPV; i.e., the young person is influenced by a substance), and whether this association was unique to SU-CPV compared to other co-occurring functions of CPV (proactive/instrumental, reactive/response to threat, affective/emotion-related).
This ANROWS-funded study by researchers from Monash and Griffith Universities examines the intersection of different types of child maltreatment and their association with young people’s use of violence in the home. The most common experiences of maltreatment were domestic violence, with cisgender females more likely to experience all four types of child maltreatment. These findings point to the need for education about the impacts of child maltreatment and primary prevention strategies to address risk factors across individuals, communities and society.
A thematic analysis of interviews with 15 sons aged 12–17 whose mothers had experienced DFV from adult male partners. Findings highlight sons’: 1) complex needs and trauma; 2) feelings of injustice and shame; 3) uncertainty regarding program aims; 4) connection with other young people; and 5) increased empathy for their mothers.
This study highlights practical implications for interventions, such as the importance of helping young people express their emotions, recognize the harm caused, identify safe spaces, people, or activities, and support them in the process of apologizing.
Child-to-parent violence (CPV) is associated with youth substance problems; however, CPV which is substance-involved (SU-CPV) is specifically excluded from the consensus definition of CPV and few studies have explored the familial context surrounding SU-CPV. This study by Deakin University utilised the I3 model to explore associations between parental monitoring, parental intrusiveness, affective reactivity, concurrent reactive CPV and SU-CPV in an Australian community sample of caregivers.
This article uses two paradigmatic case studies to build on the theories of intergenerational and collective trauma to argue that dissociation should be a key target of prevention strategies for gender-based violence.
