Children’s Actions when Experiencing Domestic Violence

Överlien, Carolina; Hydén, Margareta

doi:10.1177/0907568209343757

Cited by 175Intimate Partner and Family ViolenceChild Abuse and TraumaFamily Dynamics and Relationships

Children’s Actions when Experiencing Domestic Violence

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Överlien, Carolina, Hydén, Margareta·2009·Childhood

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The aim of this article is, by analysing children’s discourses, to investigate their actions or absence of actions during a domestic violence episode. The empirical data are recorded group therapy sessions and individual interviews with children who have grown up experiencing their fathers’ violence against their mothers. The analysis shows that the children’s stories contain two aspects of actions: one related to the actions during the ongoing episode, and one the child perceives as possible/ desirable for the future. The findings are discussed in the light of Lazarus and Folkman’s theory of coping.

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There is a need to shift from the passive framing of children as witnesses to a more complex understanding of them as both victims and agents, through understanding how children make sense of and work with their experiences of domestic violence.
“Some researchers have pointed out the need to shift from this passive framing of children as it ess to a o e o ple u de sta di g of the as oth i ti s a d as age ts, th ough an understanding of how children make sense of and work with their experiences of domestic violence (Øverlien, 2011;Øverlien and Hydén, 2009;Mullender et al., 2003;Authors et al., 2016b;Authors, 2015).”
From Children’s embodied experience of living with domestic violence: “I’d go into my panic, and shake, really bad” (2016) · cites this paper as Øverlien and Hydén, 2009

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Authors: Överlien, C., & Hydén, M.
Affiliations: Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NO)
Linköping University (SE)
ORCID: Överlien, Carolina
Venue: Childhood
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2009-11
Volume: 16
Issue: 4
Pages: 479-496
ISSN: 0907-5682 (ISSN-L)
1461-7013
DOI: 10.1177/0907568209343757
OpenAlex: W1983716439
Cited by: 175
References: 46
Citations by year: 2026: 6 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 9
FWCI: 6.22
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
urn.kb.se
Licence: other-oa
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Childhood (publishedVersion)
KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
Topics: Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
Keywords: domestic violence, children's coping, children's discourse, children's actions, children's narratives

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