Effects of domestic violence on children and intergenerational cycle

Research proposal
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Table of Content.
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
Background of the research.........................................................................................................4
RESEARCH AIM............................................................................................................................5
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES............................................................................................................5
RESEARCH QUESTIONS.............................................................................................................5
Alternative Hypothesis................................................................................................................5
Null Hypothesis...........................................................................................................................5
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................5
Notion of domestic violence that has produced on children within their developmental stage
and later parental capacity as an adolescent................................................................................5
Challenges or difficulties faced by children in terms of domestic violence during their
development and later parental capacity as an adolescent...........................................................6
Strategies or ways to minimize the effects of domestic violence during the child’s
developmental stages and later parental capacity as an adolescent.............................................7
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK....................................................................................................7
Attachment Theory......................................................................................................................7
Social Learning Theory...............................................................................................................7
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY....................................................................................................8
Research philosophy....................................................................................................................8
Research approach.......................................................................................................................8
Research strategy.........................................................................................................................8
Choice of methods.......................................................................................................................8
Sampling......................................................................................................................................9
Ethical consideration...................................................................................................................9
Temporal plan..............................................................................................................................9
DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS..........................................................................................10
Research Instrument..................................................................................................................10
DISCUSSION................................................................................................................................11
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CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS..........................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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TITLE
“Effects of domestic violence that has produced on children and the intergenerational cycle of
domestic violence”
INTRODUCTION
An exposure of the child or the adolescent towards any of the incident of threatening or
violent behaviour is generally referred to as a form of child maltreatment. It is generally linked
with enhanced risk of social, psychological, emotional as well as the behavioural issues. A
domestic violence can be referred to as a systematic pattern of specific abusive behaviours within
a relationship which were used to maintain or enhance the control and power on the other person.
It is quite common among the women as they are violently attacked every minute within
Australia (Family, domestic and sexual violence in Australia, 2018). Apart from that the impact
of abuse generally ripples via a family mainly influencing not only on the victim, but it can
impact the children and their developmental stages as well. In the research, there is a discussion
about the effects of domestic violence which has greatly produced on child and their
developmental stage as well. There is a discussion about the difficulties faced by the children
(such as impacting psychological stage, physical and emotional well-being) due to domestic
violence during early and later parental capacity as an adolescent. Furthermore, some strategies
would be made so that its impact can be minimized to promote a healthy living among children
within early and later parental capacity as an adolescent. In addition, there is involved the child
protection authorities which deals with the domestic violence cases among children. The purpose
of this study is to summarize the current investigation, highlight essential challenges within the
research as well as to provide recommendations for further study.
Background of the research
As per the consequences regarding domestic violence on the victim, the influence over the
children is far reaching as there are several psychological effects for the children who generally
witness for such abuse. Children are mainly experiencing numerous delays within their cognitive
and emotional development, an extreme aggressiveness or withdrawal, having anxiety issues and
the specific behavioural problems (Weeks and Gilmore, 2020). The main issues which were
linked with domestic violence such as aggressive behaviour, lack of self-esteem, sleep
disturbance and many more.
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