Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Child protection and domestic violence: training, practice and policy issues
Other Titles:	Children and youth services review
Authors:	Magen, Randy H Friend, Colleen Conroy, Kathryn Fleck-Henderson, Ann Krug, Stefan Thomas, Rebecca L Trudeau, John H Mills, Linda G
Keywords:	Training;Child protection;Policy
Year:	2000
Publisher:	Pergamon Press
Citation:	22 (5), 2000
Notes:	Reviews the experience gained from four US projects funded to provide training and to develop a model to integrate domestic violence into child protection service practice. One of the training programmes achieved a statistically significant change in worker attitudes towards domestic violence, and was particularly successful in changing male worker attitudes. From an analysis of the four programmes, the authors identified two common challenges to integrating domestic violence and child abuse practice. The first was tension between priorities on children or women, with the child protection focus on the best interests of the child at times leading child protection workers to view a woman ‘staying’ in an abusive relationship as complicit, and failure to view the perpetrator as responsible for the abuse. The second was penetrating the child protection service culture.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13793
ISSN:	0190-7409
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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