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A number of links that have popped up recently
Envision Counselling and Support Centre A new page about parent abuse posted by Envision, a Canadian counselling and support service, based in southeast Saskatchewan. The Silent Suffering of Parent...
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Data Comparison
Eddie Gallagher has been comparing his data on abuser profiles with that of Routt and Anderson. (see my post of August 10th) Gallagher sample N=340 Step-up N=268 Girls 30% 30% Sole...
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Bournemouth training day, and a discussion about involving the police
An excellent training day in Bournemouth on Tuesday, attended by around 70 practitioners from around the Bournemouth and Poole area. Eddie Gallagher presented findings from his extensive research into...
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Was it ever thus?
I still have a clear memory from my university days, of a particularly inspiring lecture on the work of Geoffrey Pearson, into the ways we continually perceive young people to be behaving worse now...
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Understanding Parent Abuse in under 90 minutes?
Writing some training materials recently, I’ve been forced to be more concise than usual about the main issues facing practitioners working in the field of parent abuse at the moment. An hour and a...
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Training session for parents
I’m very excited to post this flyer about a training day specially designed for parents and carers experiencing abuse from their children. This morning session on June 29th, offered at no cost to...
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Teens see violence as normal
Eddie Gallagher has drawn my attention to an article in www.dailylife.com.au, commenting on an apparent rise in domestic violence crimes in New South Wales involving juveniles as the aggressor. (A 6.5%...
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Understanding is everything
You may have caught the controversial coverage of comments made a few weeks ago by a mother of 4 children with ADHD, the youngest of whom is violent to her on a daily basis. (Here and here) Jenny...
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Parent Abuse: the victim / perpetrator problem
When I speak with people about children’s violence to parents, the question of terminology regularly raises its head: How helpful is it to talk about ‘victim’ and ‘perpetrator’ in cases of parent...
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Child to parent violence: An ever expanding library
This year is set to be an exciting one in terms of books about child to parent violence. I have done a brief round up here and will be writing more about each as they are published. If there are others...
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Working with Adolescent Violence and Abuse Towards Parents: book review
With many papers and now two books to her name, Amanda Holt is a leading voice in the field of adolescent to parent violence and abuse (APVA), not just in the UK, but also around the world. APVA is a...
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Child to parent abuse: “The pointy end of entitlement”
The Australian media have offered considerable coverage of child to parent violence and abuse over the last year, as conferences have taken place, reports have been published, or police figures made...
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Parent Abuse: Gender issues in group work
Not a very snappy headline I’ll grant you but the alternative was too cheesey – “Keeping gender on the agenda”. Yeah, I know….. While there are a small number of studies that have found little...
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Who’s in Charge? Practitioners speak!
Who’s in Charge? is a nine week programme developed specifically to support parents who are experiencing violence and abuse from their children. Originally designed in Australia by Eddie Gallagher,...
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Summer #CPV harvest
I am often asked how I come across the news, articles and publications that I tweet and blog about, in relation to child to parent violence (CPV). My original rationale for this site was along the...
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CPV: So what does it look like, Part 1.
This is a post I have had in mind for a while, and which has been changing shape faster than I can write. As a result, this is going to be part 1, and I will continue the discussion over the next weeks...
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Campaigning in this field, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is, “Is it increasing?” whether from journalists, interested members of the public, friends, professionals or families...
View ArticleAn evening with Eddie Gallagher
Eddie will be visiting London on 20th September and there is an opportunity to meet with him to talk about child to parent violence and the Who’s in Charge? programme, which he developed many years ago...
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Who’s in Charge? A much awaited book from Eddie Gallagher
Many of us have been waiting a long time for this book to appear. Whether you prefer to think about it as a bible or a brain is up to you, but the 500+ pages represent the outpouring of Eddie...
View ArticleTaking #CPV services online, Part 1
As we entered lockdown in March in the UK, there was significant anxiety initially that families would find it impossible to access the help they needed across many service areas, quickly followed by...
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