Physical Abuse of Children: Some Considerations When Seen from the Dynamic Perspective
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SUMMARY Consideration of the psychodynamic perspective in physical abuse of children can help to enhance our understanding of individual cases and also enable agencies working in this area to plan their services with due regard to the needs of their staff. If efficiency and effectiveness are to be sustained sufficient emphasis needs to be given to the very powerful experiences that are occurring, at all levels. Space needs to be provided for these to be considered, processed and dealt with by the children, adults and professionals since child-abuse occurs as a result of impulsive behaviour where conflicts cannot be resolved, at the time, in another way. In order to establish more appropriate patterns of conflict resolution, families need to be helped to think rather than act, and if professionals are to be able to function in this way themselves, as conscious and unconscious models to their families, the professionals need to have experienced this themselves, to know from experience. Knowing intellectually is insufficient.
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Removal from the family protects the child from maltreatment but also exposes him/her to permanently undermining the possibility of repairing the relationship with his/her parents.
“Indeed, while removal from the family protects the child from the risk of maltreatment, it also exposes him/her to permanently undermining the possibility of repairing the relationship with his/her parents, understood both as real persons and as his/her internal representations.”
From Psychoanalytic Interventions with Abusive Parents: An Opportunity for Children’s Mental Health (2022) · cites this paper as [5]
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“Whenever possible, therefore, interventions should be aimed at repairing the relationship [3,5], and social workers should avoid being tempted by the impulsive, action-oriented style of the families they work with by choosing quick and drastic solutions that may be harmful to the child in the long run [7].”
Background
- Authors
- Trowell, J.
- Affiliations
- The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Trowell, Judith
- Venue
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1986-01
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 63-73
- ISSN
- 0266-8734 (ISSN-L)
- 1474-9734
- OpenAlex
- W2003776810
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 0.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Keywords
- child physical abuse, child abuse, psychodynamic approach, professional experience, staff support, conflict resolution, family dynamics, impulsivity, professional role models, child abuse services
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