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Week ending 10 October 2008
| | | Predicting suicide attempts in young adults with histories of childhood abuse. |
| | A French-Canadian, school-based cohort was prospectively followed to identify correlates and moderators of suicide attempts in adults reporting childhood physical abuse, contact sexual abuse or both. Results showed the identity of the abuser moderated the relationship of abuse frequency and suicide attempts, with individuals abused by their immediate family being at highest risk. Although paternal education exhibited negative associations, several externalising phenotypes had positive associations with suicide attempts: disruptive disorders, conduct problems and childhood aggression. |
| | Publication Details: | The British Journal of Psychiatry Volume 193 Issue 2, 2008 pp 134-139 |
| | Authors: | Brezo, Jelena et al |
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| | | Overarching principles: assaults on children and cruelty to a child: definitive guideline. |
| | Defines sentencing principles, starting points and ranges for the offences of assault on children and of cruelty to a child. Looks at assessing seriousness through aggravation, culpability, harm and mitigating circumstances. Considers other factors such as long -term psychological harm, the adverse effect of the sentence on the victim and offenders who have primary care responsibilities. Specific cases includes 'happy slapping', honour killings and arranged marriages. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Sentencing Guidelines Secretariat, 2008 pp 18 |
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| | Corporate Authors: | Sentencing Guidelines Council |
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| | | Criminal rewards: the impact of parent alienation syndrome on families. |
| | Argues parent alienation syndrome (PAS) is a pseudoscientific theory used to prevent battered women from protecting their children from abusive fathers. Examines the impact of PAS on families, its admissibility in courts, and the role of social workers and other mental health practitioners in custody cases through the lens of a social worker, a social justice activist, and a mother who is involved in a PAS custody case. |
| | Publication Details: | Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work Volume 23 Issue 4, 2008 pp 388-396 |
| | Authors: | Brown, Andrae L. |
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Child and family services |
| | | Grief encounter. |
| | Focuses on the work of the Candle Project, a service offering bereavement counselling to children who have lost a sibling or parent to a sudden and sometimes violent death, such as a shooting or stabbing. Provides an overview of the service, which is run by St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham, south London, and details the project's parent/carer and sibling group meetings. |
| | Publication Details: | Young Minds Issue 94, 2008 pp 27-29 |
| | Authors: | Gould, Mark, and Lyall, Joanna |
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| | | Internet-based mental health interventions. |
| | An assessment of Internet-based mental health interventions. Finds many Internet mental health interventions have reported early results that are promising. Both therapist-led as well as self-directed online therapies indicate significant alleviation of disorder-related symptomatology. Notes the number of studies addressing child disorders lags behind those of adults. Concludes more research is needed to address methodological issues of Internet-based treatments. |
| | Publication Details: | Mental Health Services Research Volume 7 Issue 2, 2005 pp 75-87 |
| | Authors: | Ybarra, Michele L., and Eaton, William W. |
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| | | Online versus face-to-face conversations: an examination of relational and discourse variables. |
| | 64 undergraduate students were assigned to a conversation in either a face-to-face setting or an Internet chat program. Findings indicate the face-to-face group felt more satisfied with the experience and experienced a higher degree of closeness and self-disclosure. There were no significant differences between groups in regard to the level of emotional understanding of their partner. Implications for online counselling are discussed. |
| | Publication Details: | Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training Volume 40 Issue 1/2, 2003 pp 155-163 |
| | Authors: | Mallabar, Mary, and Day, Susan X., and Green, Melinda A. |
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| | | Psychotherapy using distance technology: a comparison of face-to-face, video, and audio treatment. |
| | Study comparing three modes of delivering psychotherapy: face-to-face, real-time video conference, and two-way audio (analogous to telephone). Results from 80 clients suggest that differences in process and outcome among the three treatments were small and clinically promising in comparison with the untreated control group. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 49 Issue 4, 2002 pp 499-503 |
| | Authors: | Day, Susan X., and Schneider, Paul L. |
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| | | Working with neglected children and their families. |
| | Suggests chronic child neglect characteristically involves the breakdown or absence of a relationship of care. Argues for an approach that pays attention to the relational dynamics of neglect, drawing on attachment theory such as Ainsworth's (1978) typology of attachment patterns to shed light on parenting styles and patterns of family functioning associated with neglect. Concludes a relational approach requires the social worker to work both with and within relationships. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Social Work Practice Volume 15 Issue 2, 2001 pp 193-204 |
| | Authors: | Turney, Danielle, and Tanner, Karen |
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Child health, development and welfare |
| | | Hard wired for risk: neurological science, 'the adolescent brain' and developmental theory. |
| | Argues that some claims about 'the adolescent brain' are problematic because 'youth experts' and others have used this research to reinforce prejudicial stereotypes about young people as intrinsically problematic, and to propose an increase in the age at which young people can engage in a number of activities. Argues that some young people are sometimes at risk not because their brains are different, but because they have not had the experience or opportunity to develop the skills and judgment that engagement in those activities and experiences supply. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Youth Studies Volume 11 Issue 3, 2008 pp 347-360 |
| | Authors: | Bessant, Judith |
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| | | Child protection and paediatricians. |
| | Explains how the increasing number of complaints against child protection professionals, negative publicity for individual professionals involved in high profile cases, and threats of violence and intimidation has resulted in reluctance among paediatricians to get involved in child protection work. Outlines a series of initiatives by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, to support paediatricians by making them more competent and confident in undertaking child protection work. |
| | Publication Details: | Clinical Risk Volume 13 Issue 3, 2007 pp 92-95 |
| | Authors: | Craft, Alan |
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| | | Prevention and social exclusion: new understandings for policy and practice. |
| | Considers the changing landscape for child welfare provision and argues the value of developing new understandings that reflect contemporary practice and policy contexts. Building on the analysis of data gathered during the National Evaluation of the Children's Fund (NECF), this article suggests that new and different understandings of prevention can be explored when located within a contemporary context of social exclusion. Suggests that a framework based on the work of NECF provides a useful way forward for the development of preventative policy that will enable practitioners to reflect on their activities and roles. |
| | Publication Details: | British Journal of Social Work Volume 38 Issue 6, 2008 pp 1194-1211 |
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| | Authors: | Morris, Kate, and Barnes, Marian |
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| | | Safeguarding children is everyone's responsibility: UK government statement on the duties of doctors. |
| | Outlines paediatrician's duties within the context of child protection, according to key messages in the joint statement from the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health. |
| | Publication Details: | Archives of Disease in Childhood Volume 92 Issue 10, 2007 pp 833-834 |
| | Authors: | Stephenson, Terence |
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Children's rights, participation and attitudes |
| | | Committee on the Rights of the Child: 49th session: consideration of reports submitted by state parties under article 8 of the optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. |
| | Highlights concerns for the wide scope of the United Kingdom's interpretative declaration on article 1 of the Protocol. Recommends that the United Kingdom reconsider its active policy of recruitment of children and ensure that it does not occur in a manner that specifically targets ethnic minorities and children of low income families. Also recommends the United Kingdom strengthens measures to identify and collect data on refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant children within its jurisdiction who might have been recruited or used in hostilities abroad. |
| | Publication Details: | United Nations, 2008 pp 7 |
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| | Corporate Authors: | United Nations. Committee on the Rights of the Child |
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| | | Committee on the Rights of the Child: 49th session: consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 44 of the Convention: concluding observations: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
| | Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on reports submitted by the United Kingdom under article 44 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Raises concern over the general climate of intolerance and negative public attitudes towards children and adolescents, in the UK. It also highlights high rates of deaths and self-harm in custody; methods to tackle antisocial behaviour; the failure to prohibit corporal punishment; the low age of criminal responsibility and discrimination faced by certain groups of children including asylum-seeking and refugee children; and lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender children. |
| | Publication Details: | United Nations, 2008 pp 21 |
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| | Corporate Authors: | United Nations. Committee on the Rights of the Child |
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| | | Reflecting on children and young people's participation in the UK. |
| | Questions how children and young people's participation in public decision-making has been promoted in the UK. Considers the arguments for participation: the promotion of children's rights; alignment with consumerism and service user involvement; enhancing democracy; and developing children's well-being and development. Suggests each of these reasons for participation has certain advantages and disadvantages with accompanying dilemmas in children and young people's participation activities. |
| | Publication Details: | The International Journal of Children's Rights Volume 16 Issue 3, 2008 pp 343-354 |
| | Authors: | Tisdall, E. Kay M., and Davis, John M., and Gallagher, Michael |
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| | | Parenting in contemporary Europe: a positive approach. |
| | Addresses core issues relating to positive parenting and non-violent upbringing in Europe. Five themes are focused upon: the legal situation and the results of research: what it means to be a parent according to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Council of Europe; current thinking on the use of violence and corporal punishment against children; responses to family policy, especially in terms of support programmes and services for parenting and families; the particular problems and needs of parents and children in situations of social exclusion; and the relationship between parenting and drug-related behaviour among children and teenagers. |
| | Publication Details: | Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2007 pp 175 |
| | ISBN: | 9789287161352 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QGI MMR |
| | Authors: | Daly, Mary ed. |
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| | | A theoretical model for the comprehensive assessment of parenting. |
| | Proposes a theoretical model for the comprehensive assessment of parenting. The emphasis is on 'core' assessments, made in the context of child maltreatment and substitute care but is also intended as a general theory of parenting or care-giving and is applicable to a wide variety of professional situations. Draws on attachment theory and evolutionary psychology, and systemic thinking to present a model of parenting within an ecological framework. Describes how a range of modifiers impact on the ability of parents to care for their children, including: domestic violence; mental illness; substance abuse; and child sexual abuse. |
| | Publication Details: | British Journal of Social Work Volume 38 Issue 6, 2008 pp 1076-1099 |
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| | Authors: | Farnfield, Steve |
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| | | Advocating for comprehensive assessments in domestic violence cases. |
| | Argues the impact of domestic violence depends on several factors and suggests a one-size-fits-all response is inappropriate. Maintains that parents' capacity to participate in support services varies as does the appropriateness of children being removed from the home. Proposes courts and child protective agencies examine each domestic violence case on an individual basis to mitigate the effects of a child's exposure to domestic violence by means other than removal. |
| | Publication Details: | Family Court Review Volume 46 Issue 4, 2008 pp 654-669 |
| | Authors: | D'Ambrosio, Zandra |
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| | | Coparenting relationships after divorce: variations by type of marital violence and fathers' role differentiation. |
| | Examines co-parenting relationships for 25 divorced mothers who experienced violence during their marriages. How well former husbands were able to keep separate their parental and spousal roles emerged as central to co-parenting dynamics and was partly related to type of marital violence. Linking differentiation to types of martial violence advances theoretical understanding of variations in co-parenting relationships after divorce. |
| | Publication Details: | Family Relations Volume 57 Issue 4, 2008 pp 479-491 |
| | Authors: | Hardesty, Jennifer L. et al |
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| | | Universal parenting programme. |
| | Describes the Early Days Parenting Programme being delivered on a three-year rolling programme in Stockport and Durham Dales. The programme is designed to provide a link between antenatal sessions taught by health visitors and midwives, and includes programmes for parents and carers of older children. The article provides a brief overview of the programme and its contents and includes findings of a recent evaluation. |
| | Publication Details: | Young Minds Issue 94, 2008 pp 34-35 |
| | Authors: | Deakin, Alison |
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| | | Beyond Barbie: community-based sex and relationships education with African-Caribbean girls and young women. A workers' compendium. |
| | Aims to promote community based sex and relationships work, as a model for positively contributing to the sexual health of African-Caribbean girls and young women. Highlights the reasons why such work is necessary, and aims to encourage and promote the contribution of the black and ethnic minority voluntary sector to the health and political agenda of reducing inequalities in health and improving outcomes. Details the difficulties in carrying out this work, and lists available resources, projects, and useful contacts. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Family Planning Association, 2004 pp 68 |
| | ISBN: | 1899194630 |
| | Shelf Mark: | HXB JDH |
| | Authors: | Grey, Pat |
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| | | Parenting skills. |
| | A bi-lingual book in English and Chinese, especially designed for Chinese parents. Provides advice on many aspects of parenting and includes practical exercises. Covers: play, praise and rewards; establishing limits and reducing commands; the time-out method; and dealing with children's problematic behaviours. |
| | Publication Details: | [Manchester]: Chinese Health Information Centre, 2006 pp 60 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QJP CCK P |
| | Authors: | Lam, Shirley Lo Ping, and Tsang, Eva Lai Wah, and Yip, Kwai Wah |
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| | | Multisystemic treatment of juvenile sexual offenders: a progress report. |
| | Describes the empirical underpinnings, theoretical foundation, and clinical features of Multisystemic therapy (MST), an ecologically-based treatment model, and provides a brief review of MST outcome studies in two randomized trials with juvenile sexual offenders. Results suggest MST has had positive effects on key social-ecological factors (e.g., family affective relations, peer relations, school performance) associated with sexual offending and has demonstrated long-term reductions in criminal activity. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality Volume 13 Issue 3/4, 2001 pp 25-42 |
| | Authors: | Borduin, Charles M., and Schaeffer, Cindy M. |
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| | | The role of cognitive distortions in paedophilic offending: Internet and contact offenders compared. |
| | Compares the cognitive distortions of contact sex offenders against children with Internet child pornography offenders who had no contact offences against children. Findings show some cognitive distortions are frequently agreed with by both offenders. Internet offenders had more cognitive distortions that children are sexual beings. There were no differences in cognitive distortions justifying the offence. Offenders with a previous history of offending were more likely to admit to cognitive distortions which justify their offending. |
| | Publication Details: | Psychology, Crime and Law Volume 13 Issue 5, 2007 pp 469-486 |
| | Authors: | Howitt, Dennis, and Sheldon, John |
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| | | Safe haven. |
| | A guide for teachers on emotional abuse, produced as an Education Guardian supplement in association with the NSPCC. Discusses how to spot emotional abuse and what to do about it, with frequently asked questions answered by professionals. Summarises research and describes schools providing emotional support for pupils. Looks at resources for use with children aged 9-11 years. Considers emotional literacy, Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning and the position of counselling in schools in Wales. Closes with author Jacqueline Wilson on problems faced by children. The pages on resources for teachers are available online at: http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/resourcesforteachers/classroomresources/GuardianEmotionalAbuse_wdf60564.pdf |
| | Publication Details: | London: Guardian Newspapers Ltd, 2008 pp 8 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLJ JDB XJH |
| | Corporate Authors: | Guardian |
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| | | Revisiting the knowledge base of social work: a framework for practice. |
| | Expresses the view that social work practice is a highly skilled activity which calls for an extensive knowledge base and considerable intellectual abilities. Argues there is considerable confusion about what constitutes the knowledge base of social work and how this can be applied to the dilemmas regularly encountered in direct work. Presents an account of key writing on the subject of knowledge and describes a framework that includes three interweaving features: theoretical knowledge (or theory); factual knowledge (including research); and practice/practical/personal knowledge. |
| | Publication Details: | British Journal of Social Work Volume 38 Issue 6, 2008 pp 1212-1237 |
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| | Authors: | Trevithick, Pamela |
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