No way to run or hide: Children’s perceptions of their responses during intrafamilial child sexual abuse

Katz, Carmit; Tsur, Noga; Nicolet, Racheli; Klebanov, Bella; Carmel, Nir

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104541

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“…An acquaintance outside the family may be distant enough for the child to not depend on him or her for survival. Thus, there is consensus in the literature that children abused by a relative, especially if on a reoccurring basis, may experience significant helplessness (Katz & Barnetz, 2014a;Katz et al, 2020b;Merrick & Guinn, 2018).…”

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“…There is also consensus that the closer the perpetrator is to the child's family circle and the greater the child's dependence on him or her, the more significant the helplessness becomes (Katz & Barnetz, 2014a;Katz et al, 2020b;Katz & Nicolet, 2020). When the parent is the offender, the children may experience extreme conflict given their physical and emotional dependency on the parent (Katz & Barnetz, 2014a).…”

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“…It has become customary to refer to responses to traumatic events as instinctual. Thus, the "fight-or-flight" response, described initially by Cannon (1925), has been seen as a binary attempt to stand off or escape a threat, a decision made by the sympathetic nervous system (Katz et al, 2020b). Additionally, during the 1960s, another stress response was identified: "freeze" (Colman, 1967).…”

Section: Children's Peritraumatic Responses To Sexual Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent studies (Andresen, 2018;Katz & Nicolet, 2020;Katz et al, 2020b) further highlighted the irrelevance of fight-or-flight in the context of intrafamilial CSA and the relevance of adaptive responses. While living with the perpetrator and experiencing recurring incidents of abuse, children had little option of fighting, running, or even hiding.…”

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“…Following growing criticism of the FFF model, researchers have uncovered additional responses to trauma (Katz et al, 2020a(Katz et al, , 2020b. One study (Blanchard et al, 2001) that examined students identified several other behaviors, such as risk assessment, screaming, or crying for help.…”

Section: Children's Peritraumatic Responses To Sexual Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

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Children’s Peritraumatic Responses During Sexual Abuse Incidents: Exploring the Narratives of Children From Different Ethnoreligious Groups in Israel

Klebanov

Katz

2021

J Interpers Violence

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The peritraumatic response of children during incidents of child sexual abuse (CSA) is a neglected construct in the literature. Despite the widespread use of the fight-flight-freeze model, recent studies have shown that in the unique context of child abuse, additional peritraumatic responses could be relevant. The current mixed-methods study examined children’s peritraumatic responses to CSA. The sample consisted of 249 forensic interviews with children aged from 4 to 13 years. An initial qualitative analysis resulted in identifying various ways in which the children responded to the abuse, the children’s decision-making around these responses, as well their perceptions of their response. This analysis was followed by quantitative analyses, which explored the frequency of these peritraumatic responses and their correlation with the characteristics of the children and abuse. Six peritraumatic response categories were identified, the most common being fight, flight, and fear. Only ethnoreligious identity was significantly correlated with the fight-or-flight response, with a significantly lower frequency among Muslim and ultra-Orthodox Jewish children. Frequency of abuse and perpetrator familiarity were correlated with the frequency of the fight-or-flight response, indicating that the latter was less relevant in reoccurring incidents of abuse and with perpetrators who were family members. The findings promote the conceptualization of children’s peritraumatic responses during incidents of abuse and the realization of the crucial role of children’s ecological systems in their peritraumatic responses to incidents of abuse.

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Section: Children's Peritraumatic Responses To Sexual Abusementioning

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Section: Children's Peritraumatic Responses To Sexual Abusementioning

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Section: Children's Peritraumatic Responses To Sexual Abusementioning

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Children’s Peritraumatic Responses During Sexual Abuse Incidents: Exploring the Narratives of Children From Different Ethnoreligious Groups in Israel

Klebanov

Katz

2021

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Wie verstehen Kinder Vernachlässigung, Misshandlung und Missbrauch?

Kindler

2023

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Warum ist das wichtig?Kinder können auf ihre Grundrechte nicht verzichten. Ob sie Vernachlässigung, Misshandlung und Missbrauch als solche verstehen, ist daher nicht ausschlaggebend dafür, ob eine Kindeswohlgefährdung vorliegt. Dies ergibt sich alleine schon daraus, dass Kinderschutz auch bei Kindern greifen muss, die aufgrund von Alter und Entwicklungsstand noch nicht über Erfahrungen nachdenken oder sich dazu äußern können. Umgekehrt führen auch Angaben eines Kindes, es habe sich durch bestimmte elterliche Verhaltensweisen sehr verletzt oder missachtet gefühlt, nicht geradlinig zu einer Übernahme der Bewertung durch Jugendämter oder Familiengerichte. Auch wenn ein Hilfebedarf in entsprechenden Fällen anzunehmen ist, handelt es sich vielleicht lediglich um einen eskalierten Eltern-Copyright: KJPP, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, 2023 | guteverfahren.elearning-kinderschutz.de H. Kindler (*) Deutsches Jugendinstitut e. V., München, Deutschland

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Hilfen und Schutzkonzepte bei sexueller Gewalt

Kadera,

Kindler

2023

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Obwohl bereits im Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik anhand einzelner Gerichtsprozesse diskutiert (Fleming et al. 2003), konnten erst in den 70er Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts wesentliche Fortschritte bei der Enttabuisierung dieser Form von Kindeswohlgefährdung erreicht werden (Kavemann & Lohstöter 1984). Die zeitverzögert einsetzende intensive Forschung konnte Schädigungseffekte klar und für alle Formen sexuel-Copyright: KJPP, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, 2023 | guteverfahren.elearning-kinderschutz.de

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No way to run or hide: Children’s perceptions of their responses during intrafamilial child sexual abuse

Cited by 21 publications

References 56 publications

Children’s Peritraumatic Responses During Sexual Abuse Incidents: Exploring the Narratives of Children From Different Ethnoreligious Groups in Israel

Children’s Peritraumatic Responses During Sexual Abuse Incidents: Exploring the Narratives of Children From Different Ethnoreligious Groups in Israel

Wie verstehen Kinder Vernachlässigung, Misshandlung und Missbrauch?

Hilfen und Schutzkonzepte bei sexueller Gewalt

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