The Truth Is Longer Than a Lie: Children's

The Truth is Longer Than a Lie provides important insights into children's experiences of abuse and their perception of professional intervention. Mudaly and Goddard promote the emerging child-centred approach to research, which provides children with an opportunity to talk about abuse and its effects on their lives, their views on the reasons for abuse, their opinions of abusers and non-offending parents and the dynamics of disclosing abuse. A section on children's perceptions of the professionals who intervened ? to protect them, to prosecute the abuser, or to provide therapeutic counselling ? sets the context for a discussion of how professionals can respond appropriately to individuals? needs. The authors also examine societal factors that increase children's vulnerability, and propose measures for preventing abuse.

Acknowledgements

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The Power of Children's Voices

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Introduction

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The need for this book, and its aims

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Values, beliefs and orientation

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Ethical issues

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Definitions and terminology

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The organization of the book

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The Silencing of Children

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Introduction: the invisible child

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Even the screams are silenced: the modern `discovery' of child abuse

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Child deaths

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`It's always --- always going to be in my head': a case of repeated abuse

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The use of language to minimize the harm to children

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Other forces that silence children

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Conclusion

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Child-centred Practice: The Foundation of Effective Research with Children who have been Abused

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Introduction

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A child-centred approach: core components

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Interviewing children who have been abused for research using a child-centred approach

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Conclusion

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The Ethics of Listening to Children in Research

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Introduction

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A theoretical overview of ethics in research with children who have been abused

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Ethical issues in research involving children who have been abused

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Limitations to addressing ethical dilemmas in child abuse research with children who have been abused

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A Chance to be Heard: Involving Children who have been Abused in Research

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Introduction

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The rationale for choosing a qualitative methodology

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Hearing participants' voices in research

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The research design

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Data collection and analysing procedures

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Problems and pitfalls encountered in this research

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Children's Voices: Their Views on Abuse and the Impact of Abuse

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Introduction

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Why children are abused

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Stories of abuse

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The effects of abuse: abuse hurts

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Conclusion

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Children's Voices: Their Views about Making Disclosures, about Abusers and Non-offending Parents

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Introduction: to tell or not to tell

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Children speak: children's views of the abuser

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Children speak: children's views of the non-offending parent(s)

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Children's Voices: Their Experience of Professional Interventions

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Introduction

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General comments on professional interventions

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Views about police involvement

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A view of child protection services

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Views on counselling services

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Children as Hostages to Abuse

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Introduction

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Summary of common links between hostage-taking and child abuse theories

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Children as hostages: two young people's accounts of abuse

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Commentary

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Limitations of the application of hostage theory to child abuse

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Conclusion

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Children's Vulnerability to Abuse: A Double-edged Issue

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Introduction

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Developmental vulnerability

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Structural vulnerability

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Conclusion

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The Complexity of Listening Professionally to Children

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Introduction: are we listening to children?

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What does listening mean?

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A case study: Amanda's story

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Children's participation: the foundation of listening to them

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The Way Forward

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Introduction

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The changing concept of childhood

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Taking the myth out of adulthood

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Legitimizing childhood

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Making children visible and audible

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Creating a child-centred world

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References

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About the Authors

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Subject Index

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Author Index

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The Truth Is Longer Than a Lie: Children's Experiences of Abuse And Professional Interventions

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