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Children’s Actions when Experiencing Domestic Violence

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: The aim of this article is, by analysing children’s discourses, to investigate their actions or absence of actions during a domestic violence episode. The empirical data are recorded group therapy sessions and individual interviews with children who have grown up experiencing their fathers’ violence against their mothers. The analysis shows that the children’s stories contain two aspects of actions: one related to the actions during the ongoing episode, and one the child perceives as possible/ desirable for the future. The findings are discussed in the light of Lazarus and Folkman’s theory of coping.

Source: Childhood

DOI: 10.1177/0907568209343757

Authors: Carolina Överlien, Margareta Hydén

Institutions: Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Linköping University

Language: English

Topic: Intimate Partner and Family Violence

Subfield: Health

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Gender equality

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1983716439

FWCI: 6.13

Cites: 46

Cited by: 199

Related to: 10