Wishing you hope in the new year
Sometimes life doesn’t play out the way you hoped – or planned. For those living with children who use behaviour…
child to parent violence and abuse
Crime Survey – gathering data
For as long as we have been writing and talking about children’s violence towards parents, there has been a sense…
CAPVA Briefing Papers free to download
I am absolutely delighted to finally launch a series of Briefing Papers on the topic of child and adolescent to…
Agreeing terms: It’s only helpful if it’s helpful
I wonder whether it is a peculiarly British thing that we have taken so long to decide on both a…
Awareness Raising Day
Almost every month – and week even – there seems to be a focus on raising awareness by a particular…
The experience of Black mothers in negotiating CPVA
Whether in the way we think and talk about child to parent violence and abuse (CPVA), in the way programmes…
“A reduction of violent and abusive behaviours”, an Evaluation of the Building Respectful Families Programme
One of the constant features in recent reports about child and adolescent to parent violence and abuse has been the…
A response to the Government’s Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan
Somewhat delayed because of family circumstances, but I thought it would be helpful to have a look at the Government’s…
New work on APVA draws attention to links with sibling abuse and bullying.
In my own book, Child to Parent Violence and Abuse: a Practitioner’s Guide to Working with Families, I included examples…
Research priorities
I was chatting to someone recently and we were pondering the next direction for research in the field of child…
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