Truth Is Longer Than a Lie Children's Experiences of Abuse and Professional Interventions

Name: Truth Is Longer Than a Lie Children's Experiences of Abuse and Professional Interventions
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ISBN: 9781843103172

ISBN-10: 1843103176

ISBN-13: 9781843103172

Edition: 2006

Authors: Chris Goddard, Chris Goddard

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The Truth is Longer Than a Lie provides important insights into children's experiences of abuse and their perception of professional intervention. Mudaly and Goddard promote the emerging child-centred approach to research, which provides children with an opportunity to talk about abuse and its effects on their lives, their views on the reasons for abuse, their opinions of abusers and non-offending parents and the dynamics of disclosing abuse. A section on children's perceptions of the professionals who intervened ? to protect them, to prosecute the abuser, or to provide therapeutic counselling ? sets the context for a discussion of how professionals can respond appropriately to individuals?…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date: 3/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English




The power of children's voices



The silencing of children



Child-centred practice : the foundation of effective research with children who have been abused



The ethics of listening to children in research



A chance to be heard : involving children who have been abused in research



Children's voices : their views on abuse and the impact of abuse



Children's voices : their views about making disclosures, about abusers and non-offending parents



Children's voices : their experience of professional interventions



Children as hostages to abuse



Children's vulnerability to abuse : a double-edged issue



The complexity of listening professionally to children



The way forward