Impact of Domestic Abuse on Children and Social Work Interventions

Systematic literature
review

TOPIC: “The impact on children affected by domestic abuse and the effectiveness of Social
Work interventions, Age 0-10’’.
INTRODUCTION
Overview of Research
Child abuse is a physical maltreatment of child. It is sexual, psychological and physical
neglect of children mainly through parent. The child abuse may consist any act through partner
that result in actual harm to child and also occur in home, communities, schools and
organisation. In context to this, child abuse is an incident of threatening and controlling
behaviour, abuse and violence among anyone. High rate of the fatal child abuse are among 0-10
years. Children which are exposed to the abuse in home are mainly denied their right to be stable
and safe home environment. Many children are suffering silently. They are exposed to violence
in home and also trusts adults to turn for the comfort and help. Domestic abuse develop negative
impact on mindset of children and they are not able to do anything.
Background of Research
The child abuse is appalling crime against most vulnerable in society. Neglect and abuse
through guardians or parents was associated with young people and children emotional well
being consisting thoughts regarding suicidal ideation and self harm. Domestic abuse is related to
the poor emotional well-being. On the basis of survey, there are around 271, 805 children of 0-10
years which experiencing the emotional abuse from their guardian or parent. To prevent the
children from any abuse or violence, there are some legislations developed by government of
United Kingdom for an instance Children Act 1989, The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Act (CAPTA) and others.
Rationale of Research
The rationale behind conducting an investigation is to know about the issues regarding
the domestic violence on children through and its negative impact on their mindset and lifestyle.
The child abuse is a major issue which children face mainly age group of 0-10 and it affect their
life and not able to talk with any one in comfortable manner. From conducting this research,
issues from rising domestic abuse on 0-10 years children and interventions or ways to overcome
from them. On the other hand, present investigation helps in given the understanding about
children domestic violence. This specific knowledge area is useful to the learner in the

advancement of expertise and the skill base that leads to the growth of the future project as well
as to its success.
Chapter structure of dissertation
It represents the overall structure of dissertation to conducting in systematic manner.
Under this, there are different steps given below:
Chapter 1: Introduction
It is a first part of dissertation that represents overview about the whole dissertation by
develop aim and objectives related to particular subject area. It is the beginning step through
which a researcher will be able to identify the current problems and focus on finding the best
solutions.
Chapter 2: Literature review
This chapter states about the critical analysis on the specific area. It provides answers to
the arisen research questions. This has data inclusion for the different sources like books, articles
web sources, journals and others. It serves as strong foundation for this dissertation to achieve
set goals and targets with a given time period.
Chapter 3: Research Methodology
It provides way to conducting an investigation by using different tools and techniques.
This consists different tools and collection techniques and data analysis to develop valid
conclusion. This helps in providing both the reliability and validity of the information gathered.
In this, researcher is responsible for selecting best suitable techniques and method in order to
undertake study successfully.
Chapter 4: Data analysis and interpretation
This is one of the important chapter as it help in systematically analysing collected data
that support in attaining positive and reliable outcomes at the end of the study. It can improve the
possibilities of drawing valid judgement within the research. In this, researcher also develop
various themes to interpret collected data by using secondary sources. As it also provide depth
analysis about the research topic.
Chapter 5: Conclusion and Recommendation
This chapter play a crucial role in undertaking research activities as it provide summary
of the study. The main focus of this phase of investigation is to evaluate entire activities that
support in measuring the overall effectiveness of the research. On the other side,

recommendation is also provide by researcher after analysing whole section of study. If any kind
of improvement is required within the project than researcher is apply the same to improve
further area in the study.

LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic abuse affect the victims and the children who get abused. As it also affect
people who is regardless to the gender, class, race and so on. Thus, it is crucial to understand the
challenges and complexities of domestic abuse and at the same time also evaluate the
effectiveness of social work intervention as it is provide wide range of social problems and
populations.
Children domestic abuse
On the basis of Pippa Sargent (2016), Domestic abuse is public health related issue that
impact children and families to tackle historically focused on the support of victim as well as
reducing crime rather than the prevention. Children domestic abuse is any kind of controlling,
violent, bullying, threatening among children. It can seriously harm to children of age group 0-
10. It can happen inside and outside the home, over the phone, social networking sites which use
by children. Now a days, majority of children are affected by domestic violence that put negative
impact over their physical, mental, emotional and social state. Along with this, children who live
in home where there is domestic violence grow up in environment that is totally unpredictable as
it filled with anxiety, tension and also can be dominated by fear. It directly lead to significant
emotional and psychological trauma. Children who are domestic abused can directly affect their
development growth in term of emotional, mental and social as well. Furthermore, some children
lose their ability to feel empathy for other people. In this regards, there some type of domestic
abuse such as emotional, sexual, psychological, physical and so on. As it also includes:
 hitting, pitching or cutting
 Not allow some one leave the home
 Threatening to another family members.
According to Cathryn Hunter (2014), Child abuse and neglect abuse to behaviour through
patents and some other adults that outside conduct norms and also entails sustainable causing
risk to child. Such kind of behaviour many be unintentional and intentional that consists
omission acts. there are some sign of children domestic abuse because it can be difficult to tell to
other if domestic abuse is happing and those who carrying out the same act very weird and
different while other people are around with them. As children might also feel frightened and