Investigating Polyvictimization in Child Abuse Cases

Project title

Investigating Polyvictimization in Child Abuse Cases

Project manager

Ida Haahr-Pedersen

Project description

Background:
The extant literature suggests that children and adolescents exposed to one type of abuse are likely to have experienced additional forms of victimization. Exposure to multiple and co-occurring types of victimization (also known as polyvictimization PV) is a strong predictor of adverse psychological outcomes among children and youth. Clinical samples that include a high amount and variation of (poly)victimized children present a unique population within which to further examine the concept of polyvictimization, e.g. by the identification of distinct polyvictimization profiles.

This project will:

• investigate the role of PV in explaining trauma symptomatology among children and youth who have been assessed in The Danish Children Centres;
• draw on the PV evidence-base to strengthen future interventions and interdisciplinary collaboration in cases of child abuse

The project is a part of CONTEXT: The COllaborative Network for Training and EXcellence in psychoTraumatology.

Start date and expected end date

2017-2020

Main supervisor

Frederique Vallieres, Trinity College Dublin

Co-supervisors

Maj Hansen, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, SDU

The project is carried out under

THRIVE Research Group

Collaborators

Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin and Børnehus Hovedstaden

Funding

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No.722523

Keywords

abuse among children and adolescents, polyvictimization, PV, adverse psychological outcomes, polyvictimization profiles