The Lost Soul: parent abuse on the big screen
Every so often I come across something completely different in my searches regarding parent abuse. One such find was the…
Child to parent violence
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…
A growing problem in Ireland
This piece in the Irish Times dropped into my inbox over the weekend. Declan Coogan addressed the Annual Work Conference in Dublin,…
Addressing parent abuse through Juvenile Family Courts in USA
This piece from the Orlando Sentinel on 4th October, reporting on responses to parent abuse following the death of Rosemary Pate at…
Everybody Hurts: Parent abuse on Radio Sheffield
The top story on the Radio Sheffield breakfast programme yesterday morning (October 3rd) was to do with the launch of…
Parent abuse: Do the math. The cost of not intervening
“Mental disorders cost the economy more than £100bn a year” …. “2 million more adults and 100,000 more children will…
Trouble in the Troubled Families Department
I have a sort of Love-Hate relationship with the Trouble Families Programme and so I like to keep abreast of developments…
Elder Abuse: Is this the same thing as parent abuse?
In June 2006 an article in the Times newspaper reported on a parliamentary Health Committee inquiry, set up in 2003…
You can’t afford to dabble
Can anyone respond to a referral of parent abuse? Since we are encouraging practitioners to recognise when child to parent…
Model students perpetrating abuse
If, like me, you prefer your maths concrete and you use things like a classroom of students as a unit…