For shame
There’s been a bit of a theme going on it seems lately about shame. Today I have been re-reading Lynette…
Discussion
Respect 6th National Practitioners Seminar
I have come to anticipate a stimulating and informative experience from Respect’s Practitioner Seminars. Yesterday’s, in the London Borough of…
Safeguarding issues in child to parent violence
A lot has been written about the difficulties in adopting a safeguarding response to the issue of parent abuse. First…
Pointing the finger at “Troubled Families”
The media buzzes again today with discussion about help for Cameron’s 120,000 “troubled families”. (BBC article here) The term itself…
Amanda Holt speaking at Surrey University
An inspiring talk from Amanda Holt yesterday at Surrey University, based on her forthcoming book: Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse: Current Understandings in…
Should you call the cops on your kids?
Anderson Cooper used his CNN TV show on January 25th to discuss this question, with mothers experiencing abuse from their…
I don’t believe it!
We should feel encouraged that, increasingly, friends, colleagues, acquaintances are accepting of the fact that there are parents who face…
A rock and a hard place
Writing a piece for PSW magazine over the holiday, and then watching the Archbishop of Canterbury’s new year’s day speech,…
Broadening the definition of domestic violence
The announcement yesterday by the government that there is to be a consultation on the definition of domestic violence, in England…
Parent abuse: a psychological perspective
To what extent is it important to frame the understanding of parent abuse within a particular discipline? Currently within Britain,…