Understanding Child-to-Parent Aggression from the Parent's Perspective
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Case Studies on Child-to-Parent Aggression: Listening to the Voice of the Parents
IRAS ID
214533
Contact name
Hue San Kuay
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Durham
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 8 months, 30 days
Research summary
Child-to-parent aggression is not an uncommon scenario in the society but has been hidden due to its unpleasant nature. This study aims to explore the experiences of parents as the victims of child-to-parent aggression and to examine whether this could be due to callousness of the perpetrators. Ten parents of adolescents (10-18 years old) who are referred to the Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) who fits our study criteria will be recruited. The inclusion criteria will be forensic cases, only parents of young people who reported child-to-parent aggression, and parents who give consent to be interviewed. The exclusion criteria will be rejected referrals and parents of children aged below 10 or above 18. Parents with severe medical illness and parents who are unable to provide consent will also be excluded. Parents will be recruited through a hospital within the North East of England. For the first recruitment method, the team manager will screen newly-referred patients with the record of aggression towards parents based on the referral letters. Patients with this record will be added to the researcher’s caseload. In order to identify the participants who fits the inclusion criteria, the team manager and the researcher will access the patient’s care documents. The researcher will pass the recruitment pack to the clinician who is in charge of assessing the patients who meet the criteria. The second recruitment method is by self-selection, where parents will contact the researcher to register their interest after reading the recruitment poster in the hospital’s waiting room. The parents’ eligibility will be checked the same way as the first recruitment method. The researcher will interview the parents for 45 minutes using interview questions. A clinician will then interview the parents using the Clinical Assessment of Prosocial Emotions (CAPE) for 15 minutes. The interview with parents will be a one-off interview.
REC name
North East - Newcastle & North Tyneside 2 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/NE/0355
Date of REC Opinion
18 Jan 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion