Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s

Ruth Beecher

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
11 April 2025

Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Child abuse; Sexual abuse & harassment; Personal & public health

Series: Genders and Sexualities in History

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.

By: Ruth Beecher
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9783031800511
ISBN 10: 3031800516
Series: Genders and Sexualities in History
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 11 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction.- 2. Silenced Voices, Invisible Bodies. Survivor / practitioner encounters.- 3. ‘Bring it out from the shadows.’ Encouraging health visitors and family doctors to respond.- 4. ‘Colonising the field’: feminism vs psychiatry.- 5. ‘Turn to the colour plates.’ Training before and after Cleveland.- 6. ‘Seeing it everywhere’ or oblivious to it. Clinical child psychology and child sexual abuse in the family.- 7. Conclusion.

Ruth Beecher is Senior Research Fellow in Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.