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Helping children who have experienced family violence: A discussion of the issues raised by the PARKAS program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Lesley Hewitt
Lesley Hewitt*
Affiliation:
Department of Social Work, Monash University, Melbourne
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This paper looks at some of the difficulties that practitioners face when developing intervention programs for children who have experienced abuse or family violence. It argues that different intervention strategies have developed in Australia, the USA and Britain for children who have been physically abused and for children who have been sexually abused or who have experienced family violence, and that these strategies reflect the different ways in which these problems were identified rather than being based on rigorous evaluative methodologies that identify what is actually effective in intervening in children's lives.

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