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100			_aCallaghan, Jane E. M. _95216
245			_aUnderstanding Agency and Resistance Strategies (UNARS) : _bchildren's experiences of domestic violence _cJane E. M. Callaghan and Joanne H. Alexander
260			_aNorthampton, UK : _bUniversity of Northampton, _c2015
300			_aelectronic document (272 pages); PDF file: 4.12 MB
520			_aThis report focuses on children’s experiences of domestic violence, in families affected by domestic violence. This report is concerned with children’s experiences in situations where the main perpetrator and victim of violence would be legally defined as two adults in an intimate relationship (not where the child is involved in ‘dating violence’). Research and professional practice that focuses on children as damaged witnesses to domestic violence tends to describe children as passive and helpless. This study, based on interviews with more than a hundred children across four European countries, recognises the significant suffering caused to children who experience domestic violence. However, it also tells a parallel story, about the capacity of children who experience domestic violence to cope, to maintain a sense of agency, to be resilient, and to find ways of resisting violence, and build a positive sense of who they are. This project highlights the implications of policy and professional discourses that position children as ‘damaged’ and as ‘witnesses’, but that do not recognise children’s capacity to experience domestic violence, make sense of it, and respond to it in ways that are agentic, resilient and resistant. Describing children as ‘witnesses’, ‘exposed to domestic violence’ and ‘damaged by it’ erodes children’s capacity to represent their experiences, and to articulate the ways that they cope with and resist such experiences. By focusing on children’s capacity for conscious meaning making and agency in relation to their experiences of domestic violence, the authors highlight the importance of recognising its impact on children, and their right to representation as victims in the context of domestic violence. (from the Executive summary). Record #4818
650		0	_94089 _aADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
650			_aCHILD EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE _9130
650			_aCHILDREN AS VICTIMS _9129
650			_aCHILDREN _9127
650			_aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE _9203
650			_aINTERVENTION _9326
650			_aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE _9431
650			_aNARRATIVE TECHNIQUES _9399
650			_aRESILIENCE _94571
650		4	_aVICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE _9624
650			_aYOUNG PEOPLE _9660
651			_aEUROPE _93372
651			_aGREECE _95217
651			_aITALY _95218
651			_aSPAIN _94448
651		4	_aUNITED KINGDOM _92604
700			_aAlexander, Joanne H. _95219
856			_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.2509.2324
942			_2ddc _cREPORT
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