The Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse Sector Podcast

003 Supportive or Stigmatising?

The Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse Sector Podcast

Show Notes

In this bitesize episode of the Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse Sector Podcast I talk about how a person's experience of trauma in childhood is included in reviews.

Hear me talk about: 👉🏻 the impact the words we write can have in reviews

👉🏻 my caution around use of the term ACE's

👉🏻 why expanding our knowledge from research can lead to over simplification or stigma

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Resources mentioned in this episode: Causal and common risk pathways linking childhood maltreatment to later intimate partner violence victimisation, Pezolli, 2024 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ Engagement + proportionality + strengths = SILP

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