Children’S Protective Strategies In The Context Of Exposure To Domestic Violence

Keywords

Child coping; childhood exposure; domestic violence

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore children’s accounts of exposure to domestic violence and the strategies they used to protect themselves from such adversity. Convenience sampling included youth (N = 29), ages 7–16, who received mental health services at a rural victim-service provider. Child self-report measures were used to assess exposure and protective strategies. Children were most often exposed to verbal and physical abuse of mother, inter-parental disagreements, and the abuser’s destruction of property. Participants used a variety of strategies to escape, understand, safety plan, protect, and intervene among these types of abuse.

Publication Date

11-17-2017

Publication Title

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Volume

27

Issue

8

Number of Pages

835-846

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2017.1339654

Socpus ID

85026780541 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85026780541

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