Foster Carers' TSD Standards covered:
- 1.3 Person centred approaches
- 1.4 Confidentiality and information sharing
- 2.1 Fostering role
- 2.3 Relationship with parents and others
- 2.4 Team working
- 3.4 Personal safety and security
- 3.5 Risk assessment
- 4.1 Encourage communication
- 4.2 Knowing about communication
- 4.3 Communication with parents, families and friends
- 4.4 Communication with organisations
- 5.2 Resilience
- 5.3 Transitions
- 5.6 Understanding contexts
- 5.8 Supporting disabled children and children with special emotional needs
- 6.2 Keeping children safe
- 6.3 Recognising and responding to abuse
- 6.4 Working with other agencies
Author Details
Name: Dr Adele Freeman
Job Title: Clinical Psychologist
Current place of work: The Child Psychology Service
What is Child to Parent Violence?
Child to Parent Violence (CPV), also known as Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (APVA) or Parent Abuse (PA) has been gaining increasing attention in recent years and is a difficulty that many adoptive and foster families have experienced. Abusive behaviours can include (but are not limited to) using humiliating language and threats, belittling a parent, damaging or stealing property and heightened sexualised behaviours. There can also be patterns of coercive control with parents and or siblings feeling ‘held to ransom’ by young people and having to comply with more and more unreasonable demands. Of course, families might also experience episodes of explosive physical violence leaving them feeling frightened, powerless and humiliated.