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A Qualitative Exploration of Practitioners’ Understanding of and Response to Child-to-Parent Aggression
There has been limited research and policy directed toward defining and understanding child-to-parent aggression (CPA), resulting in inconsistent definitions, understandings, and responses, which has a detrimental impact on families. In particular, there have been limited qualitative studies of thos...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9136371/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33103567 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260520967142 |
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author | O’Toole, Sarah E. Tsermentseli, Stella Papastergiou, Athanasia Monks, Claire P. |
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description | There has been limited research and policy directed toward defining and understanding child-to-parent aggression (CPA), resulting in inconsistent definitions, understandings, and responses, which has a detrimental impact on families. In particular, there have been limited qualitative studies of those working on the frontline of CPA, hindering the development of effective policy. The present qualitative study therefore aimed to explore practitioner perspectives of CPA. Twenty-five practitioners from diverse fields (e.g., youth justice, police, charities) participated in four focus groups relating to their experiences of working with CPA in the United Kingdom. Thematic analysis of focus groups revealed three key themes: definitions of CPA, understanding of CPA risk factors, and responding to CPA. Practitioners understood CPA to be a broad use of aggression to intimidate and control parents and highlighted a range of individual (e.g., mental health, substance abuse) and social (e.g., parenting, gangs) risk factors for CPA. Further, practitioners felt that current methods of reporting CPA were ineffective and may have a detrimental impact on families. The findings of this study have implications for CPA policy and support the need for a multiagency and coordinated strategy for responding to CPA. |
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spelling | pubmed-91363712022-05-28 A Qualitative Exploration of Practitioners’ Understanding of and Response to Child-to-Parent Aggression O’Toole, Sarah E. Tsermentseli, Stella Papastergiou, Athanasia Monks, Claire P. J Interpers Violence Original Research There has been limited research and policy directed toward defining and understanding child-to-parent aggression (CPA), resulting in inconsistent definitions, understandings, and responses, which has a detrimental impact on families. In particular, there have been limited qualitative studies of those working on the frontline of CPA, hindering the development of effective policy. The present qualitative study therefore aimed to explore practitioner perspectives of CPA. Twenty-five practitioners from diverse fields (e.g., youth justice, police, charities) participated in four focus groups relating to their experiences of working with CPA in the United Kingdom. Thematic analysis of focus groups revealed three key themes: definitions of CPA, understanding of CPA risk factors, and responding to CPA. Practitioners understood CPA to be a broad use of aggression to intimidate and control parents and highlighted a range of individual (e.g., mental health, substance abuse) and social (e.g., parenting, gangs) risk factors for CPA. Further, practitioners felt that current methods of reporting CPA were ineffective and may have a detrimental impact on families. The findings of this study have implications for CPA policy and support the need for a multiagency and coordinated strategy for responding to CPA. SAGE Publications 2020-10-26 2022-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9136371/ /pubmed/33103567 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260520967142 Text en © 2020 SAGE Publications https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research O’Toole, Sarah E. Tsermentseli, Stella Papastergiou, Athanasia Monks, Claire P. A Qualitative Exploration of Practitioners’ Understanding of and Response to Child-to-Parent Aggression |
title | A Qualitative Exploration of Practitioners’ Understanding of and Response to
Child-to-Parent Aggression |
title_full | A Qualitative Exploration of Practitioners’ Understanding of and Response to
Child-to-Parent Aggression |
title_fullStr | A Qualitative Exploration of Practitioners’ Understanding of and Response to
Child-to-Parent Aggression |
title_full_unstemmed | A Qualitative Exploration of Practitioners’ Understanding of and Response to
Child-to-Parent Aggression |
title_short | A Qualitative Exploration of Practitioners’ Understanding of and Response to
Child-to-Parent Aggression |
title_sort | qualitative exploration of practitioners’ understanding of and response to
child-to-parent aggression |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9136371/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33103567 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260520967142 |
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