"I need your eyes to see myself" : on the inclusion of dialogues and an otherness of the other into psychology and clinical work : explored through studies of contexts where children live with violence in close relationships
Violence in close relationships with children raises intriguing questions for our
society. The sense making may go on in a fragile balance between possible false
accusations and possible neglect of needed concerns. This study explores contexts where such concerns are at stake. From the vantage point of outlining main
contributors towards a dialogical understanding of human meaning making, the
study explores how this evolves when issues of child sexual abuse, violence, and
maltreatment are at stake. The study examines three naturalistic settings: (1) A
Norwegian university hospital’s specialty mental health service for children and
adolescents, including all cases (N = 20) referred in two years for treatment after
sexual abuse. Data were recollected in hindsight as part of therapy of how nonabusing caregivers became aware of children’s first signs. (2) A larger Norwegian
public family protection service mandated to prioritize families with children
and violence and its work in all such cases in one year (N = 106). Data comprised
answers to semi-structured questionnaires and participatory research among all
professionals. (3) A regional multi-agency, cross-professional consultation team
for cases with children and violence. Data comprised analyses of the consultation
process across cases over time. Together the studies illuminate a fine-tuned dialogical meaning making process in operation during all settings. Meaning making emerges as dialogically embedded and embodied. What particularly stands
out as constitutive for the meaning making processes are contingencies constituted by tensions of space and time, of having a different voice, of trust, risk, and
vulnerability, and of ethics intertwined inside each encounter. The knowledge
connects to the contributions from the dialogical scholars. Comprehensively, a
dialogical understanding makes it possible to realize how intricate it may be to
differentiate when child sexual abuse, violence, and maltreatment occur and it
calls for an open stance and responsive attunement for needed meaning making
and alternatives to emerge.
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On the inclusion of dialogues and an otherness of the other into psychology and clinical workPublisher
Jyväskylän yliopistoISBN
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- Artikkeli I: Flåm, A.M., & Haugstvedt, E. (2013). Test balloons. Small signs of big events: A qualitative study on circumstances facilitating adults’ aware-ness of children’s first signs of sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 37, 633– 642. DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2013.06.007
- Artikkeli II: Flåm, A.M., & Handegård, B.H. (2015). Where is the child in family therapy service after family violence? A study from the Norwegian Family Protection Service. Contemporary Family Therapy, 37, 72-87. DOI: 10.1007/s10591-014-9323-5
- Artikkeli III:Flåm, A.M. (2009). ”I need your eyes to see myself”: Multi-agency team consultation as reflecting turn taking. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 28, 72-88. DOI: 10.1521/jsyt.2009.28.4.72
Keywords
child sexual abuse child violence dialogical meaning making dialogical understanding embodied knowledge participatory research lastensuojelu kliininen psykologia lastenpsykiatria lähisuhdeväkivalta perheväkivalta kaltoinkohtelu lapset seksuaalinen hyväksikäyttö insesti dialogisuus merkitykset moniammatillisuus
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