The Impact of Domestic Violence on Learners in Tharaka South Division, Tharaka District Kenya
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Date
2010-08
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Kampala International University, bachelors degree of education
Abstract
Exposure to domestic violence has significant negative repercussions for children's
social, emotional, and academic functioning. In the past decade, mental health
professionals have developed treatment programs and approaches aimed at mitigating
these deleterious effects. Their efforts, however, are often hampered by difficulty
identifying and gaining access to the target population because the occurrence of
domestic violence remains a family secret in many households. Clinicians and
researchers have published descriptions of group and individual therapy approaches for
children who witness domestic violence. These approaches share several goals:
promoting open discussion about children's experiences with domestic violence, helping
children to deal with the emotions and consequences that follow such exposure, reducing
the problematic symptoms children experience, strengthening children's relationships
with their non abusive caregivers, and helping children and their families to create and
maintain relationships and living situations that are free from violence and abuse. One
limitation of the literature describing these interventions is the absence of controlled
outcome studies demonstrating the effects of these programs, in the short and long terms.
Thus, development of such evaluative components is an important future direction for
this field. Some of the other challenges that confront clinicians include working with
children's families, addressing children's complex and intense emotional experiences,
and determining whether children have themselves been victims of abuse or neglect (and
then interfacing with child protective services).
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A Research Report Presented to the Institute of Open and Distance Learning in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Bachelors Degree of Education of Kampala International University
Keywords
Domestic Violence, Learners, Tharaka District Kenya