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Violence against parents: family dynamics and keys for the intervention

Violence against parents: family dynamics and keys for the intervention. Paris, 27th November 2010. Some facts. Violence against parents: an emergent phenomenon Numbers (I). About the increase of judicial complaints:. Violence against parents judicial complaints in Spain (*).

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Violence against parents: family dynamics and keys for the intervention

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  1. Violence against parents:family dynamics and keys for the intervention Paris, 27th November 2010

  2. Some facts

  3. Violence against parents: an emergent phenomenonNumbers (I) About the increase of judicial complaints: Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  4. Violence against parents judicial complaints in Spain(*) (*)Source: El Correo (19/05/2008) Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  5. Adolescence Violence against parents:Contextual and personal characteristicsCalvete, E., Orúe, I. y Sampedro, R. (2009). En Prensa • Longitudinal studies. • 1.477 adolescent sample between 12 and 17 years old. • 7,2% has attacked their parents once at least. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  6. Relationship between women attacked and their aggressors Servicio de Atención Telefónica para Mujeres Víctimas de Violencia Masculina Doméstica Gobierno Vasco - Agintzari Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  7. DEFINITION AND TYPES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST PARENTS

  8. Definition Physical violence (aggressions, pushes, throwing objects) or verbal violence (repetitive insults, menaces) o non verbal violence (aggression menaces, broking appreciate objects), make them repetitive against parents or their tutors. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  9. Violence against parents types • Traditional VAP: problem add to another big one. • New VAP: the VAP as the main problem Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  10. “Traditional” violence against parents • Autism or serious mental deficiency. • Mental disorders: delirious or hallucinations. • Mental disorders related with drug-addition. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  11. “Traditional” violence against parents • Adolescents that defence themselves being victims of abuse. • Violence used as a way of protection. • Retaliation: child abused or abandoned that return the treatment when the roles change. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  12. “New” Violence (I) • It’s a new intra-family violence model, in one hand related with the “control” and “power” and in the other, with the obtaining of objectives. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  13. “New” Violence (II) • Children, adolescents and young people, visibly “settled down”, with more or less violence behaviour extended, but often reduce to the family surrounding. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  14. “New” Violence (III) • Often Drug-taking. But these consumes don’t appear in the “centre” of the problem, “additional” problem or “facilitator” of the violence. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  15. “New” Violence (IV) • Violence in “scale”: it starts with insults, continues with menaces and breaking objects and finishes with physical aggressions more and more serious. • This process could take years. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  16. General facts (I) • Prevalence: very different numbers and little credible (from 0,6 to 16 %) • Age: often old parents • Social level: from every socio-economical level • Gender: • Aggressor: inter-gender similar probability • Attacked: mothers have more probabilities Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  17. SOCIAL CHANGES THAT FAVOURED VIOLENCE AGAINST PARENTS

  18. Social changes (I) • Educational model change: • From authoritarianism to permissiveness. • From a hierarchic model (authoritarian) to a “democratic” bad understood model. • In family and school. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  19. Social changes (II) • Educative conflicts between parents and teachers Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  20. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  21. Social changes (III) •  in the number of children. •  in the number of hours that parents stay at home: “key children”. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  22. Social changes (IV) • Changes in family models: Nuclear family < 50 % Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  23. Social changes (V) • Changes in the family cycle: delay in the medium age of paternity ↓ “Aged parents” Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  24. Social changes (VI) • More permissive society with aggressive behaviour from children and less from the parents. •  in the violent messages in de Media. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  25. Pseudo-independence • These things make that parents authority decreased. • Many children accede to a pseudo-independence: their parents have abdicated in their roles and have to get in charge of their lives without an effective detachment. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  26. Lack of de Legitimacy • Children have more power ,and in some occasion have all the power: despotic children. • However, they have not legitimacy to exercise power: to conserve it, they have to use violence. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  27. Educative styles

  28. Educative styles (II) • Gallagher (2004) correlates VAP with two educative styles: • Permissive-liberal • Authoritarian violent Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  29. Educative styles (IIIa) • Authoritarian-violent style  More related with traditional VAP Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  30. Educative styles (IIIb) • Multi-violent families  Violence as a conflict resolution method. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  31. Educative styles (IIIc) • Any rebelliousness is punished with increase of the punishment, menaces, humiliations y violence. • Authoritarianism is not negotiable and it is exercise in a rigid and inflexible way. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  32. Educative styles (IIId) • VAP appears as: • Defensive • Protection • Retaliation • In “mirror” • Linked to serious psychopathology Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  33. Educative styles (IVa) • Permissive-liberal style (or punitive non strict)  More related with the New VAP Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  34. Educative styles (IVb) • Rules not clear. • Children are often over-protected: they receive everything, without counterparts. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  35. Educative styles (IVc) • Generates despotic children. • Low self-esteem. • Low level of frustration. • Low empathy. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  36. Educative styles (Va) negligent style  Related with both types of VAP Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  37. Educative styles (Vb) • Parents have abdicated from their role. • Absent of rules. • Pseudo-independence and parentalización of children. • VAP as an imposition or to refuse the role settled. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  38. FAMILY FACTORS THAT FAVOUR THE VIOLENCE AGAINST PARENTES

  39. Factors that favour the apparition of the violence against parents (Ia) • Family experience to solve conflicts using violence. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  40. Factors that favour the apparition of the violence against parents (Ib) • General violence: everybody against everybody. • Impasse   Tension  Tension  Violence Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  41. Factors that favour the apparition of the violence against parents (II) • Non normative parents “democratic”, excessively permissive, that love their children whatever they do. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  42. Factors that favour the apparition of the violence against parents (III) Over-protective parents because different reasons: very wished child, late, fragile o adopted, well-disposed to satisfy every wish of their children. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  43. Factors that favour the apparition of the violence against parents (IV) Parents in-satisfied with their role or verbalizations about their lives are empty. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  44. Factors that favour the apparition of the violence against parents (Va) • Conflictive relationship between parents.  • Mutual des-qualifications  • Triangulation Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  45. Factors that favour the apparition of the violence against parents (Vb) • In-consistence and disagree between parents about the children education. • Arbitrariness in child punishments. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  46. Factors that favour the apparition of the violence against parents (VII) • Hierarchy problems: parents that renounce their roles and refuse to establish rules. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  47. Factors that favour the apparition of the violence against parents (VIII) • Peace and family harmony myth. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  48. Factors that favour the apparition of the violence against parents (IX) “Passionate” relationship, “fusional” between one of the parents and the adolescent. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  49. Malfunction Areas Three areas: • Hierarchical organisation and establishment of rules. • Protection and secret. • Separation and fusion. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

  50. Family types I • Mono-parental families with parent-child fusional relationship. • Families with deep disagrees between the couple: • Triangulation. • Multi-violence families. Roberto Pereira. Director EVNTF

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