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Carolina Överlien & Margareta Hydén
Childhood, 2009, Volume 16 (4): 479–96
The aim of this article is, by analysing children's discourses, to investigate their actions or absence of actions during a domestic violence episode. The empirical data are recorded group therapy sessions and individual interviews with children who have grown up experiencing their fathers’ violence against their mothers. The analysis shows that the children's stories contain two aspects of actions: one related to the actions during the ongoing episode, and one the child perceives as possible/desirable for the future. The findings are discussed in the light of Lazarus and Folkman's theory of coping.
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Teresa Ostler, Ozge Sensoy Bahar & Allison Jessee
Attachment and Human Development, May 2010, Volume 12 (3): 193–207
This study examined the mentalisation capabilities of children exposed to parental methamphetamine abuse in relation to symptom underreporting, mental health and behavioural outcomes. Twenty-six school-aged children in foster care participated in this study. Mentalisation was assessed using the My Family Stories Interview, a semi-structured interview in which children recalled family stories about a happy, sad or scary and fun time. An established scale of the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children, a self-report measure, provided information on children's symptom underreporting. The Child Behavior Checklist, completed by the children's foster caregivers, assessed children's mental health and behavioural outcomes. Children with higher mentalisation were significantly less prone to underreport symptoms. These children had fewer mental health problems and were rated by their foster caregivers as more socially competent. The findings underscore that mentalisation could be an