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This book is a practical guide to the CARE programme, a home visiting programme that aims to assess infants? growth, development and psycho-social transitions in their first year of life and that together with the Index of Need checklist aims to engage parents in risk assessment.

Research evidence increasingly suggests that young children in residential care without parents are at risk of harm in terms of attachment disorder, developmental delay and normal brain development. This damage caused by early privation of parenting has been shown to have long-term consequences. Kevin Browne and colleagues* report on a survey of 33 European countries that was conducted to identify the number and characteristics of children aged less than three years placed in residential care without their parents for more than three months during the year ending 31 December 2003. Ministries of Health in Europe were asked for official data. For the 31 countries who responded it was estimated that 23,099 children (11.2 per 10,000) aged less than three years were living in institutions. There was great variation between countries for the proportion of young children in institutions and family foster care. Although residential care was shown to cost on average three times as much as foster care, 33 per cent of countries had more young children in institutions than fostered. Those countries with lower GDP and health expenditure had larger proportions of young children in institutions associated mainly with abandonment, disability and medical problems. Only four per cent of children were biological orphans with deceased parents. It is recommended that no child less than three years should be placed in residential care without a parent. Even when high-quality institutions are used as an emergency measure, research has suggested that a child should be moved into family foster care as soon as possible.

Researchers of 'amuk' behavior in Southeast Asia have normally adopted either a psychiatric or ethno-behavioral position, both of which impose an outside theoretical model. An ethnopsychological view of (ng)amuk in Java reveals it to be a poetic idiom of distress, reflecting cultural anxieties about mental illness, aggression, loss of control and vulnerability of the self. Ngamuk as mental/social suffering in Java occurs in a political context that promotes strong repression of emotion and dissent. A model of ngamuk as an exegesis of mental/social distress, reflecting everyday experiences of anxiety, vulnerability, danger and transgression, is proposed.

This book is a practical guide to the CARE programme, a home visiting programme that aims to assess infants? growth, development and psycho-social transitions in their first year of life and that together with the Index of Need checklist aims to engage parents in risk assessment. It provides evidence-based research for the programme, and gives clinical examples of how to use the assessment tools (including the Index of Need) and how to work with parents. The authors take a ?partnership with parents? approach throughout, while bearing in mind the practical workload issues that practitioners fac

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There are no known studies of victim opinions of police responses to domestic violence and abuse (DVA) calls in Greece. This study investigates differences in female and male victim experiences after making a call to the Greek police about DVA. A sample consisting of 104 victims of DVA was recruited from five agencies offering counselling and support. Of this sample, 72% consented to participate and complete a structured questionnaire (N = 75). The study compared 58 female and 17 male victims of similar demographic characteristics. Results showed there was a significant bias towards female victims for the information, help, and advice given, satisfaction with the police interview and arrest but not for children and witnesses, satisfaction with the police report and outcome of the incident. Partial evidence is provided to support the notion that male victims in Greece are discriminated against, as they do not fulfil gender stereotypes expected by police officers.

AbstractThe aim of the research was to understand the perceptions and beliefs of police officers who work and support victims of intimate partner domestic violence and abuse (DVA) and evaluate the way it is recorded. A sample was collected from eight police departments in Greece. The head of each police department was approached by the researcher and asked to distribute a structured questionnaire to front-line police officers who work with DVA victims. In total 358 police officers completed the questionnaire. Overall, nearly twice as many police officers referred to female victims (n = 170) compared to male victims (n = 83) of DVA. The police officers indicated that female victims usually suffered from severe physical violence/GBH (43%) and psychological abuse (27%), whereas male victims were most likely to disclose minor physical injuries and verbal abuse (49%) and less psychological violence (10%). An arrest was the most common response for both female and male victims (51% and 60%, respectively). Police participants indicated that offenders against males were more likely to be charged (28%) but less likely to be convicted (4%), whereas the opposite was reported for offenders of female victims (14% and 13%, respectively). If the offender was known to the police, the opinion was they were less likely to be prosecuted. Police respondents reported no significant differences for female and male victims as to causal factors and reasons for NOT reporting DVA. These were discrimination (31%), few DVA services (23%), intimidation (15%), shame and stigma of media reports (14%), lack of community support (6%), and personal reasons (9%).

In this commentary, Kevin Browne and Shihning Chou focus on the issues raised by the critical responses to their article in Adoption & Fostering (Chou and Browne, 2008).1