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Article published in The Conversation, April 29, 2024
Future interventions, support pathways, and research with families living with explosive and harmful impulses could use the provided framework to understand why children are attempting to meet their needs in harmful ways and to consider less harmful methods of support.
The study aimed to explore the underlying mechanisms between social communication understanding and aggressive behaviours in autistic and non-autistic adolescents, specifically the role of emotional dysregulation and its impact on avoidance with caregivers.
This research by Deakin University explores a typology of dyads experiencing child-to-parent violence (CPV) using the function of CPV (i.e., its motivation). CPV may be motivated by reactive (i.e., retaliatory), proactive (i.e., instrumental), or affective (i.e., primarily emotional) functions, which may co-occur intraindividually.
The purpose of this research was to understand the experience of adoptive parents (in Canada) who self-report symptoms of secondary trauma in relation to their child’s symptoms of developmental trauma.
Drawing on qualitative interviews with 30 women teachers in Australia, researchers suggest the sexism identified in early research endures in schools today, resurrected in part by the ubiquity and influence of one specific misogynist ‘manfluencer’, Andrew Tate. Employing Connell’s hegemonic masculinity, they suggest boys’ sexist practices towards their teachers and girl peers forms part of a strategy of gender inequality legitimization, stabilizing and reinvigorating a regressive ‘male supremacy’. These behaviours represent a backlash from boys and men who perceive a loss of gendered power in the post-#metoo era and have implications for girls and women in schools.
The results suggest that the nature of the relation between screen time and aggressive behaviors depends on the type of digital platform through which such content is presented and suggest the need for policies focusing on protecting young users of digital media
This article presents findings from a UK-based qualitative study that explored parents/carers experiences of young person violence from their child who has a neurodevelopmental difference.
This snapshot examines risk and protective factors for intimate partner violence victimisation among Australian adolescents.
