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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=760492919-19102001>Lisa,
thanks much for posting the compilation of resources you found on this
topic. I wanted to mention to you my thoughts about this topic as it
relates to methodology. I am teaching a doctoral course on qualitative
methods this semester and we recently read a chapter from a book (Ely, et al.,
1991) titled _Doing Qualitative Research: Circles Within Circles_, the
chapter was called "Feelings." I wonder if qualitative researchers, by the
very nature of the method, may not have enhanced risk of secondary traumatic
stress from doing this type of research. Just a thought. Hope you
are well. Deb Nelson-Gardell</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
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[mailto:owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>lisa fontes<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 19, 2001 6:04 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
Child Maltreatment Researchers<BR><B>Subject:</B> effects on
researchers<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>Thanks to you all for the help finding
references on this topic, and sending your own stories. I wanted to share the
ones I got from <BR>you off-list and the ones I found on my own. Some are not
exactly in our field but are fascinating <BR>and helpful nonetheless.
Basically, this work can be hazardous if we're not careful. A kind of
<BR>secondary PTSD can emerge even from looking at case records. Some
writers suggest procedures <BR>to protect research teams. I am amazed by the
relative silence on this topic by researchers who <BR>have conducted in-depth
interviews. Perhaps they face fears of their scientific objecivity being
<BR>questioned if they report difficulty with the material.
<P><B>If I've missed anything, please send additional sources. I'm sure there
are more feminist articles that I haven't located. And thanks for your
help!</B>
<P>Alexander, J. G., de Chesnay, M., Marshall, E., Campbell, A. R., Johnson,
S., & Wright, R. Research note: Parallel reactions in rape victims and
rape researchers. <U>Violence and Victims, 4, </U>57-61. <BR>Brackenridge, C.
(1999). Managing myself: Investigator survival in sensitive research.
<U>International review for the Sociology of Sport, 34, </U>399-410.
<BR>Buchanan, D., Khoshnood, K., Stopka, T., Shaw, S., Santelices, C., Singer,
M. (Accepted for January 2002). Ethical dilemmas created by the
criminalization of status behaviors: Case examples from ethnographic field
research with injection drug users.<U> Health Education and Behavior</U>
(formerly Health Education Quarterly). <BR>Ellsberg, M., Heise, L., Peņa, R.,
Agurto, S., & Winkvist, A. (2001). Researching domestic violence against
women: Methodological and ethical considerations. <U>Studies in Family
Planning, 32</U>, 1-16.
<P>Kinard, E. M. (1996). Conducting research on child maltreatment: Effects on
researchers. <U>Violence and Victims, 11,</U> 65-69. <BR>Urquiza, A. J.,
Wyatt, G. E., Goodlin-Jones, B. L. (1997). Clinical interviewing with trauma
victims: Managing interviewer risk. <U>Journal of Interpersonal Violence,
12</U>, 759-772. <BR> <BR> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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From: "Debra Whitcomb" <debra.whitcomb@ndaa-apri.org>
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: marital violence as child maltreatment
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An important fact, often overlooked in this debate, is the extent to which
children in violent homes are exposed to other risk factors as well. Large
percentages of families experiencing domestic violence also experience
alcohol or other drug abuse, other criminal activity, mental illness, and
other serious problems that place children at risk. In the communities I
have studied, children are rarely removed SOLELY because they were exposed
to domestic violence--something else is going on as well. Most child
protection agencies simply don't have the resources even to respond to every
case where children witness marital violence, nor do they have enough
alternative placements for these children.
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Debra Whitcomb
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American Prosecutors Research Institute
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Subject: Re: marital violence as child maltreatment
In a message dated 2/1/01 11:26:39 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jav9@cornell.edu
writes:
> Might anyone be able to point me to (1) information on how many states
> currently consider marital violence a form of child psychological
> maltreatment or (2) a discussion of this debate? I'm reviewing the
> literature for a paper on the lasting effects of marital violence on
children.
> Thank you.
>
A crucial issue in how law enforcement and CPS agencies respond to such
cases
is the problem of taking children away from battered women because they
"allowed" the children to witness the beating and therefore are guilty of
neglect. This has become a particularly serious problem in New York City,
where some advocates fear that their efforts to raise awareness of this
issue
are backfiring. Below are the first few paragraphs of a very good Village
Voice story on the topic. The full story can be found at
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9923/houppert.shtml
Richard Wexler
Executive Director
National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
53 Skyhill Road (Suite 202)
Alexandria VA 22314
Phone/fax: (703) 212-2006
www.nccpr.org
Victimizing The Victims
by Karen Houppert
Consuelo Fontaine is a victim of domestic violence. She tells a familiar
tale: her husband left all the child care and housework to her, they argued
a
lot, he belittled her, he insisted on sex when she had health problems, he
isolated her from friends, he controlled the purse strings but wouldn't let
her get a job.
Her estranged husband, shuber fontaine, declined to comment on these
charges.
Consuelo, fearful that verbal abuse was escalating into physical abuse,
decided to leave. On July 21, 1998, she gathered up her four children and
fled to a Staten Island domestic violence shelter.
Her nightmare should have been over; it was only beginning.
For the next 10 months, Consuelo would find herself in and out of family
court, trapped in an increasingly tangled web of accusations and
obfuscations. On September 17, 1998, two months after she left Shuber, the
city's Administration for Children's Services (ACS) charged her with neglect
for allowing her children to witness domestic violence. "Respondents
constantly argue in the presence of the children, with the children
intervening and the child . . . states that she wished her parents would not
argue as much," the city's neglect petition states. "As a result of the
foregoing, subject children are neglected."
No matter that Consuelo had already extricated herself from a bad situation.
The city continues to press the case, insisting that exposing her kids to
domestic violence renders Consuelo an unfit mother. ACS wants the children
taken away.
Consuelo's case is bizarre, but not unusual. The legal term for her crime is
"failure to protect," and across the city mothers like Consuelo are being
punished for their husbands' abuse. ...