Child maltreatment as a global phenomenon: From trauma to prevention

Cyr, Chantal; Michel, Geneviève; Dumais, M.

doi:10.1080/00207594.2012.705435

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“…Socio‐ecological models of prevention are less focused on levels of intervention and instead focus on recognition that many groups within society have high prevalence of sustained stress, trauma and adaptation and that prevention initiatives may be most effective when universally integrated. Such frameworks (Cyr, Michel, & Dumais, ) emphasise risk across levels; individuals interact with their families and others and exist within their communities and societies. This means prevention work can occur in community and primary health settings as well as in therapeutic or clinical contexts.…”

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Preventing intergenerational trauma transmission: A critical interpretive synthesis

Isobel

Goodyear

Furness

et al. 2019

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aim and objective: To synthesise and critically interpret literature of relevance to intervening in intergenerational transmission of relational trauma within parentinfant relationships. Background: Intergenerational trauma is a discrete process and form of psychological trauma transmitted within families and communities. Intergenerational trauma can be transmitted through attachment relationships where the parent has experienced relational trauma and have significant impacts upon individuals across the lifespan, including predisposition to further trauma. Design: Critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) was used. CIS is an inductive qualitative process that generates new theory grounded within reviewed literature. Methods: The review commenced by systematically searching for literature on interventions for intergenerational trauma. As the core theoretical construct emerged, elements that may contribute to preventing intergenerational trauma were identified iteratively and influenced further searching. In the final synthesis, 77 articles were included from the fields of intergenerational trauma, trauma interventions and attachment interventions. The review adhered to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses checklist. Results:The key construct is that prevention of intergenerational trauma transmission is the key intervention. The two contributing constructs were identified as "resolving parental trauma" and "actively supporting parent-infant attachment." Conclusions: Prevention is the most effective intervention approach for intergenerational transmission of trauma. Prevention requires trauma-specific interventions with adults and attachment-focused interventions within families. Preventative strategies need to target individual, relationship, familial, community and societal levels, as addressing and preventing trauma requires a multipronged, multisystemic approach. Relevance to clinical practice: Systematic trauma-informed attachment-focused interventions in health and social service settings are recommended. There are opportunities to provide multifocal individual and relational interventions within existing services that work with parents to help prevent the likelihood and impact of transmission of intergenerational relational trauma within families. Nurses are well | 1101 ISOBEL Et aL.

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Preventing intergenerational trauma transmission: A critical interpretive synthesis

Isobel

Goodyear

Furness

et al. 2019

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…SLT states that children learn about normal behavior by observing the behavior of adult role models (Bandura, 1971). Boys who witness violence against their mothers may come to see violence as normal (Cyr et al, 2013). Further, boys understanding of male dominance and violence may be learned in gendered ways (Hearn, 1998; Yount, James-Hawkins, et al, 2016; Yount, Miedema, et al, 2016).…”

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Gender norms, violence in childhood, and men’s coercive control in marriage: A multilevel analysis of young men in Bangladesh.

James‐Hawkins¹,

Cheong²,

Naved³

et al. 2018

Psychology of Violence

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Objective: Coercive control in marriage is common in patriarchal settings, but multilevel determinants are understudied.Method: Using a probability sample of 570 junior men (married, 18-34 years) from the Bangladesh survey of the 2011 UN Multi-Country Study of Men and Violence, we examined how exposure to violence in childhood and community-level gender norms were related to men's attitudes about gender equity and use of controlling behavior. We tested whether community-level gender norms moderated the relationship between men's exposure to violence in childhood and our outcomes.Results: According to results from multilevel Poisson regression models, as community gender norms become more equitable by 1 standard deviation, a junior married man's expected rate of controlling behavior is lower by 0.11, and his rate of agreement with gender equitable attitudes is higher by 0.27. More genderequitable community norms were negatively related to a junior married man's use of controlling behavior.Childhood exposure to violence was not associated with use of controlling behavior. There was a significant cross-level interaction such that exposure to violence had a stronger negative impact on men's gender equitable attitudes in communities with lower overall gender equity than those with higher overall gender equity. The corresponding cross-level interaction effect was not significant for the controlling behavior outcome. Conclusions:More equitable community gender norms may encourage more gender-equitable attitudes and discourage use of controlling behavior among junior men, suggesting that interventions to change community gender norms may reduce coercive control of women in marriage.

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“…In spite of such adverse conditions, the authors report that slightly over half of these young children were securely attached to their mothers. In addition, children's interpretation of maltreatment can vary greatly, even within a single society or ethnic group (Cyr, Michel, & Dumas, 2013). Whereas some children interpret abusive parenting as unfavorable or unjustified, others may recall this event as discipline and, therefore, appropriate parenting during that historical period (Wind & Silvern, 1994:441).…”

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Child maltreatment and adult health in a national sample: Heterogeneous relational contexts, divergent effects?

Schafer

Morton²,

Ferraro³

2014

Child Abuse & Neglect

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This study considers the long-term health consequences of child maltreatment. Distinct from previous research, we examine the effects of maltreatment in the context of more general parental evaluations. Analyses used retrospective and current data from the Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) study. A considerable proportion of middle-and older-age adults who experienced frequent maltreatment nevertheless evaluated the relationship with their offending parent as “excellent”, “very good”, or “good” (e.g., 47% for physical and emotional maltreatment by mothers). Maltreated respondents generally evaluated their maltreating parents less favorably than non-maltreating parents, but there was considerable variation in these recollected relationships. Adults who experienced child maltreatment reported a greater number of chronic medical conditions and physical symptoms and lower self-rated health, but effects were smaller when they had positive relationships with their parents than when one or more of the relationships was perceived as negative. These findings highlight a common and seemingly paradoxical pattern among MIDUS participants: the co-presence of harsh parental behavior and positive recollections of parental relationships during childhood. Moreover, these surprising patterns of retrospective interpretation predict very different experiences of adult health—health problems are most pronounced among maltreatment in cases where the respondent had a generally negative relationship with one or more of his or her parents.

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Child maltreatment as a global phenomenon: From trauma to prevention

Cited by 23 publications

References 14 publications

Preventing intergenerational trauma transmission: A critical interpretive synthesis

Preventing intergenerational trauma transmission: A critical interpretive synthesis

Gender norms, violence in childhood, and men’s coercive control in marriage: A multilevel analysis of young men in Bangladesh.

Child maltreatment and adult health in a national sample: Heterogeneous relational contexts, divergent effects?

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