Toxic Knowledge Self-Alteration Through Child Abuse Work

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dc.contributor.authorSigad, L. I., Davidov, J., Lev-Wiesel, R., & Eisikovits, Z.
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-07T16:53:51Z
dc.date.available2016-12-07T16:53:51Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of the present article is to examine the multiple ways in which the private lives of professionals are affected by involvement with child abuse intervention and prevention. Using a descriptive-phenomenological perspective and 40 in-depth interviews with professionals to present a model based on qualitative data, we studied the ways in which child abuse professionals conceptualize, understand, and integrate their experiences into their personal and family lives. We find that the process of internalizing child abuse knowledge occurs in two domains: One affirms or denies the existence of the phenomenon; the other concerns the strategies used to contend with the effects of working in abuse. Knowledge of child abuse is toxic, in the sense that it serves as a catalyst leading to the alteration of one’s self-perception and parental identity. We present a typology of self-alteration resulting from child abuse knowledge and describe the mechanism of this change.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSigad, L. I., Davidov, J., Lev-Wiesel, R., & Eisikovits, Z. (2016). Toxic Knowledge Self-Alteration Through Child Abuse Work. Journal of interpersonal violence, 31(3), 481-499.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://jiv.sagepub.com/content/31/3/481.full
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3087
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Interpersonal Violenceen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectprofessionalsen_US
dc.subjectparental identityen_US
dc.subjectidentity formationen_US
dc.titleToxic Knowledge Self-Alteration Through Child Abuse Worken_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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