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    Talking to my mum: strengthening relationships between mothers and children in the aftermath of family violence
    HUMPHREYS, CATHY (Association of Childrens Welfare Agencies, 2007)
    The evidence that children are at risk of harm when they live with family violence is remarkably consistent. No study suggests that there are not heightened risks and vulnerabilities to their safety and well-being (Hester et al, 2007). This article draws attention to the harm created through damaging the relationship between children and their mothers. It argues that family violence represents not only an attack on the adult victim (usually woman), or a child victim, but an attack on the relationship between the child and their mother. The article arises from an action research project which worked with women, children and refuge workers to develop activities which could address this destructive aspect of family violence through strengthening the relationship between mothers and their children.
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    Co-ordination Action on Human Rights Violations: The justice system as an arena for the protection of human rights forwomen and children experiencing violence and abuse. Final report
    HUMPHREYS, CATHY ; CARTER, RACHEL ( 2005-12)
    The Co-ordination Action on Human Rights Violations (CAHRV) addresses human rights violationsin the context of interpersonal relationships. CAHRV is a broad-based, collaboration betweenresearch institutions, policy networks, and individual researchers, funded through the EuropeanCommission's 6th Framework Programme. Major goals of the action are to integrate parallelresearch discourses on violence; unify the theoretical and empirical basis for policy; stimulate new,interdisciplinary and transnational research; and support practitioners, policy-makers, andscientists by facilitating the dissemination of knowledge and expertise. CAHRV focuses on allforms of interpersonal violence, centres them conceptually and strategically within a human rightsdiscourse, and aims to integrate relevant strands of research.Within this project, sub-network 3 ‘intervening with gender-based human rights violations’ aimed todevelop a systematic overview of research on the successes and failures of legal and policysystems to address interpersonal violence, to explore the role of civic participation in addressinggendered violence and compile information on the intersections between criminal, civil and familylaw in response to gender-based violence.Work-package 11, within sub-network 3 aimed to create a research synopsis on the justice systemas an arena for the protection of human rights of women and children. The focus was on the lawprovided for protection from interpersonal violence with a specific focus on its intersections withcriminal and family law.
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    Women’s mental health, family violence and the interface with children’s services
    Humphreys, Prof. Catherine ( 2007)
    This record is the Power Point Presentation slides of "Women’s mental health, family violence and the interface with children’s services".