Long Term Effects of Domestic Violence on Children and Adolescents

Social work: Literature review Dissertation

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Research aim and objectives.......................................................................................................1
Literature review.........................................................................................................................1
Research methodology................................................................................................................5
Ethical issues or considerations..................................................................................................6
Resources....................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

Topic: To investigate the long term effects of domestic violence with regards to the children
and adolescents.
Research aim and objectives
Aim: To identify the long term effects of domestic violence on children and adolescents.
Objectives:
 To determine the issues faced by children from domestic violence.
 To examine the impact of domestic violence on children well-being.
 To identify the ways and methods to protect children from domestic violence.
Literature review
Theme 1: Domestic violence in UK
In view of Callaghan and et.al., (2018), it has been reviewed that domestic violence refers
to the threatening behaviour, abuse or a violence between family members and the intimate
partners. Such kind of abuses might take several forms that involves sexual violence, physical
violence, abusive behaviour, threats, economic restrictions and controlling behaviour. Domestic
violence is been used for describing any of the incident or the pattern of the incidents of
threatening and the controlling behaviour the persons over the 16 years of age.
Domestic violence is indicated as the common global phenomenon where men as well as
the women experiences severe mental and physical violence. The prevalence of the domestic
violence among the children is seen as higher that in general population. Chronic mental and the
physical health problems are counted as common of the domestic violence along with many of
the domestic violence survivors who are reporting it as the psychological abuse instead of the
physical violence that contains the major long lasting effects on the wellbeing of the children. In
comparison with the non-abused children, those people who have experienced a domestic
violence contains a higher level of incidence in relation to chronic pain, gastrointestinal disorders
and heart disease.
Jouriles and McDonald (2015), highlighted that in recognition of an importance of the
education in the past 10-15 years, training of domestic violence has been incorporated into
curricula of the major schools of medical and programmes of post graduate in UK. It has been
widely seen that the children who are living with the domestic violence are facing a greater risk
relating to experiencing neglect, sexual and physical abuse. For instance- In UK, NSPCC study
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