Naslov
Are there missing variables in child abuse and parenting research in Croatia?

Autori
Delale, Eva Anđela

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Mental Health Europe 2012 Conference on Social Determinants of Mental Health. Od pojedinca do odgovornosti društva. Socijalne odrednice mentalnog zdravlja. Symposium: "Post-traumatic stress disorders and their impact on 2nd and 3rd generations"

Mjesto i datum
Split, Hrvatska, 14.06.2012. - 15.06.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Post-war trauma, child abuse, parenting research, Croatia

Sažetak
The general consensus now is that parental behavior is shaped by multiple influences, including the parents' individual characteristics and resources, the characteristics of the child and contextual sources of both stress and support. Having in mind reciprocal relationships of parents and children and that they are shaping each other, one could assume parent's war experiences are embodied into their children's life in many ways. There is a large body of research in Croatia related to different aspects of parenting recently. In the narrow sense they are related to parenting practices and different aspects of parenting from early childhood to adolescence, focusing also on the use of violence and corporal punishment against children. Huge epidemiological study aiming at mapping child abuse and neglect in the general population of 11 to16 year old children in the Balkan countries was conducted recently. In broader sense, some researches were focused on societal changes, aiming at parental attitudes toward changes within Croatian educational process and on the role of parental involvement in schools in post-conflict communities. An article in 2011 aiming to determine the risks for child physical abuse of their children resulted with conclusion that parents with mixed anxiety and depressive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to war trauma, exhibit high risk of child abuse. Authors emphasized that although international research demonstrated that psychiatric disorders were an important risk factor for child maltreatment, no research focusing on this topic has been carried out in Croatia so far. Even though Croatia and its citizens went through war experiences in 1990’s and in spite of large body of research on post-war social reconstruction process, it looks like PTSD is rarely included in research as a predictor of risk factor for parental practices or child abuse. Lack of variables related to parental PTSD or family exposure to war trauma in researches relating to parenting and mental health and development of their children in Croatia will be discussed.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija, Socijalne djelatnosti

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