Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Children may often be able to overcome and grow from single episodes of maltreatment, however as \nthese risk factors accumulate, a child’s capacity to endure diminishes (Newman & Blackburn, 2002). This \npaper highlights the prevalence of chronicity and multiplicity in maltreatment experiences and the ways in \nwhich these experiences may manifest, as multi type maltreatment, poly-victimisation and re-victimisation \nacross the life course. The article discusses the reciprocal relationship between risk and harm; and examines \nthe literature on cumulative risk and cumulative harm and the theoretical frameworks that underpin the notion \nof accumulation. The paper argues that cumulative risk and harm need to be embedded in practice and \nprioritised in research, across all aspects of the helping professions, in order to turn the tide in our battle to \nprotect our most vulnerable children and families.
Author: India Bryce
Language: English
Topic: Child Abuse and Trauma
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2982638885