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Prevention and Coping in Child and Family Care of relatedinterest The Child's World Assessing Children in Need EditedbyJanHorwath 1853029572 Good Practice in Risk Assessment and Management 1 EditedbyJackiPritchardandHazelKemshall 1853023388 Divorcing Children Children's Experience of their Parents' Divorce IanButler,LesleyScanlan,MargaretRobinson,GillianDouglasandMervynMurch 1843101033 Making an Impact – Children and Domestic Violence A Reader MarianneHester,ChrisPearsonandNicolaHarwin 1853028444 Parental Substance Misuse and Child Welfare BrynnaKrollandAndyTaylor ForewordbyJaneAldgate 185302791X Imprisoned Fathers and their Children GwynethBoswellandPeterWedge 1853029726 Engaging with Fathers Practice Issues for Health and Social Care BrigidDanielandJulieTaylor 1853027944 Prevention and Coping in Child and Family Care Mothers in adversity coping with child care Michael Sheppard with Mirka Gröhn Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and New York Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproducedinanymaterial form(includingphotocopyingorstoringitinanymediumbyelectronicmeansand whetherornottransientlyorincidentallytosomeotheruseofthispublication) withoutthewrittenpermissionofthecopyrightownerexceptinaccordancewith theprovisionsoftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988orundertheterms ofalicenceissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgencyLtd,90TottenhamCourt Road,London,EnglandW1P9HE.Applicationsforthecopyrightowner’swritten permissiontoreproduceanypartofthispublicationshouldbeaddressedtothe publisher. Warning:Thedoingofanunauthorisedactinrelationtoacopyrightworkmay resultinbothacivilclaimfordamagesandcriminalprosecution. TherightofMichaelSheppardtobeidentifiedasauthorofthisworkhasbeen assertedbyhiminaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. FirstpublishedintheUnitedKingdomin2004 byJessicaKingsleyPublishersLtd 116PentonvilleRoad LondonN19JB,England and 29West35thStreet,10thfl. NewYork,NY10001-2299,USA www.jkp.com Copyright©2004MichaelSheppard ThisworkwasfundedbyagrantfromtheEconomicandSocialResearchCouncil, UnitedKingdom. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData ACIPcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData ACIPcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN1843101939 PrintedandBoundinGreatBritain byAthenaeumPress,Gateshead,TyneandWear Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7 Introduction 9 Part I: Context 1. Policy, Prevention and Practice 19 2. Dimensions of Coping 39 3. Parenting 55 4. Context, Study Methods 75 Part II: Problems and Stressors 5. Women’s Construction of Problems 97 6. Ascribing Responsibility and Blame 119 7. The Context for Coping: Associated Problems 135 Part III: Direct Coping 8. Child-controlling Strategies 151 9. Child-responsive Coping 165 10. Emotion- and Self-focused Coping Strategies 181 11. Four Case Studies 195 Part IV: Using Social Support 12. Informal Support 219 13. Seeking Help from Social Services 235 14. Client Discourses of Judgements on Social Services 251 15. Referral for Support to Outside Agencies 269 Part V: Epilogue 16. Women’s Appraisal of their Coping 287 17. Conclusions: Prevention and Coping in Child and Family Care 305 REFERENCES 327 SUBJECTINDEX 337 AUTHORINDEX 351 Acknowledgements Thisbookwasbasedonresearchcarriedoutwiththesupportofagrantfrom theEconomicandSocialResearchCouncil,forwhosesupportIamgrateful. Iamalsogratefulforthoseinsocialserviceswhoprovidedcrucialhelpin gainingaccesstothewomeninvolvedinthisstudy.TheseareTonyMarchese andFionaHadden. Thestudywouldnothavebeenwritten,ofcourse,withouttheco-operation and time of the women themselves. These were women, as the title suggests, largelyincircumstancesof considerabledisadvantage.Theyhadsuffered,and oftenweresuffering,greatstressanddistressintheirlives.Theywere,however, preparedtotalkaboutmatterswhichreferredtothatpain.Somewomenbecame distressed in the interview, and yet were determined to tell their story. One sometimeswondersatthecircumstancesofpeoplewhereittakesresearchersto providetheopportunityforsuchstoriestobetold.Iammostgratefulofallto thesewomen.Ihopethatthisbook,andanyeffectsitmayhave,willdothem justice.Allnameshavebeendeleted,includingthoseof thechildren. Finally,MirkaGröhnworkedwithconsiderableenergyandcommitment,as wellaspersonalstrength,onthisproject.Somestories,andexamplesof these areinChapter11,canbeverysad,andtestthefortitudeofthelistenerherself.I amgratefultoMirkaforallherefforts. Mirkacarriedoutalltheinterviewsonwhichthisstudyisbased.Thedesign anddirectionofthisstudywascarriedoutbymyself,MichaelSheppard,who alsowroteallthedrafts,includingthefinalone,whichappearsasthisbook.I, therefore,amresponsibleforanyerrorsordeficienciesthatmayappear. MichaelSheppard,Universityof Plymouth,July2003
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