Course: Understanding and Tackling Adolescent to Parent Violence

Secure Attachments Secure attachments with a primary caregiver have positive impacts on a number of factors in a young person’s life. Most importantly, young people who rated positive attachments with …

Curiosity is key in understanding a child’s or young person’s internal world. When you are curious you are trying to understand the child / young person without judgment. You are …

Playfulness Playfulness is a key component in building attachments with children and young people. Whether this is joking around and laughing or playing hide and seek, playfulness is an attachment …

One barrier in attachments between mum and her children is linking the behaviour to the person. In essence, the child becomes the violence. Acceptance can help separate the behaviour from …

The call recorded in the following video is used in a lot of social work training and a lot of counselling courses. It’s a call that was recorded in the …

As we talked about before, mothers are the primary target of violence within the family. This is true whether or not there is a history of domestic violence / intimate …

In cases of abuse and witnessing domestic violence, trauma-related violence also complicates what’s happening at home. Children and adolescents lack emotional regulation skills and act out violently. Here is a …

Data around APV indicates that mothers are the primary target of violence in APV by a wide margin (Downey, 1997; Ulman & Straus, 2003; Jackson, 2003; Robinson et al, 2004; …