LEADER 04577nam 22006735 450 001 9910993872103321 005 20250520223832.0 010 $a9783031800528 010 $a3031800524 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-80052-8 035 $a(CKB)38337761200041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-80052-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32077023 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32077023 035 $a(EXLCZ)9938337761200041 100 $a20250411d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCommunity Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s /$fby Ruth Beecher 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 294 p.) 225 1 $aGenders and Sexualities in History,$x2730-9487 311 08$a9783031800511 311 08$a3031800516 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Silenced Voices, Invisible Bodies: Survivor / Practitioner Encounters -- Chapter 3. ?Bring it out from the shadows.? Encouraging Health Visitors and Family Doctors to Respond -- Chapter 4. ?Colonising the Field?: Feminism vs Psychiatry -- Chapter 5. ?Turn to the colour plates.? Training Before and After Cleveland -- Chapter 6. ?Seeing it everywhere? or Oblivious to It. Clinical Child Psychology and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family -- Chapter 7. Conclusion. 330 $a?It's a work of brilliant and empathetic scholarship that is sensitive and brave in equal measure, that will shape the field for years to come.? ?Tracey Loughran, Professor of History, University of Essex, UK ?Beecher sensitively explores children?s disclosures of abuse and the lack of culture change within community health that has made responding so inadequate.? ?Lucy Delap, Professor in Modern British and Gender History, University of Cambridge, UK ?Relevant, accessible, and significant, this book delivers an unmistakable message: we can, and must, do better. As a survivor of child sexual abuse within the family, this book offers hope for a better way forward.? ?Sophie Olson, survivor activist and author, UK This open access book is an innovative history of community health practitioners? responses to the seemingly intractable problem of men (and on rare occasions, women) sexually abusing children within the private family home. It is situated within a social history of the development of British community-based health professions in the last decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on archival research and newly gathered in-depth oral history interviews, the monograph argues that expectations placed upon community-based doctors, nurses and mental health staff since the 1980s in relation to predicting and preventing the sexual abuse of children by men they know are incongruous. Beneath a surface acquiescence to the need to protect children from such abuse or to intervene early lie cultural, social and structural barriers that prevent its fulfilment. The book is a first in specifically interrogating the recent history of the role of community health practitioners within the modern 'child protection workforce', and contributes to growing scholarship on the history of emotions in the medical professions. Ruth Beecher is Senior Research Fellow in Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. 410 0$aGenders and Sexualities in History,$x2730-9487 606 $aFamily policy 606 $aSocial history 606 $aMedicine$xHistory 606 $aOral history 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 606 $aChildren, Youth and Family Policy 606 $aSocial History 606 $aHistory of Medicine 606 $aOral History 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 615 0$aFamily policy. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory. 615 0$aOral history. 615 14$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 615 24$aChildren, Youth and Family Policy. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aHistory of Medicine. 615 24$aOral History. 676 $a941 700 $aBeecher$b Ruth$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01817347 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910993872103321 996 $aCommunity Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s$94375082 997 $aUNINA