Beyond the Physical Incident Model: How Children Living with Domestic Violence are Harmed By and Resist Regimes of Coercive Control.

dc.contributor.authorKatz, Emma.
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-29T16:00:06Z
dc.date.available2018-10-29T16:00:06Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis article begins to build knowledge of how non‐violent coercive controlling behaviours can be central to children's experiences of domestic violence. It considers how children can be harmed by, and resist, coercive controlling tactics perpetrated by their father/father‐figure against their mother. Already, we know much about how women/mothers experience non‐physical forms of domestic violence, including psychological/emotional/verbal and financial abuse, isolation and monitoring of their activities. However, this knowledge has not yet reached most research on children and domestic violence, which tends to focus on children's exposure to physical violence. In this qualitative study, 30 participants from the UK, 15 mothers and 15 of their children (most aged 10–14) who had separated from domestic violence perpetrators, participated in semi‐structured interviews. All participants were living in the community. Using the ‘Framework’ approach to thematically analyse the data, findings indicated that perpetrators'/fathers' coercive control often prevented children from spending time with their mothers and grandparents, visiting other children's houses and engaging in extra‐curricular activities. These non‐violent behaviours from perpetrators/fathers placed children in isolated, disempowering and constrained worlds which could hamper children's resilience and development and contribute to emotional/behavioural problems. Implications for practice and the need to empower children in these circumstances are discussed. (Author Abstract)en_US
dc.identifier.citationKatz, Emma. (2016). Beyond the Physical Incident Model: How Children Living with Domestic Violence are Harmed By and Resist Regimes of Coercive Control. Child Abuse Review, 1(25), 46-59.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://fileserver.wave-network.org/home/EmmaKatz.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/4007
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherChild Abuse Reviewen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.subjectIntimate partner violenceen_US
dc.subjectfamily violenceen_US
dc.subjectpsychological effectsen_US
dc.subjectchild witnessen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.subjectcoping strategiesen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectUnited Kingdomen_US
dc.titleBeyond the Physical Incident Model: How Children Living with Domestic Violence are Harmed By and Resist Regimes of Coercive Control.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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