Who's In Charge?: Why children abuse parents, and what you can do about it

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I guess they’re in favor of such activities. I mean, doctors who spend their time assisting patients with administrative issues. The chief hospital administration is aware of how important these things are, but they don’t know how to contain or deal with it, and it’s like saying to us “this is your job” (Interview 63). Another physician summed up: “Role definition is quite vague. The patient has to be treated. Taking care of the patient is considered everything” (Interview 210). However to succeed in this, you would have to be able to prove, on the balance of probabilities, that the tenant would – had the agents insisted – agreed to sign to start the tenancy a week early. As opposed to pulling out. Which you may not be able to do. As it is something which an agent would normally be authorised to do – the landlord is bound by it. Even though actually it was against the landlord’s express instructions. The landlord and the tenant Another social worker tried to explain this demand: “They just want us to do more work in the same amount of time and this is their way of optimizing us” (Interview 26). Participants from all professions shared the belief that the strong emphasis on effectiveness and performance management severely damages their clients.

These changes, which have drastically damaged the scope and quality of public service provision, reflect a reduction in state responsibility for funding services for its citizens ( Maron 2015). Lowered public expenditures have led to increased demand ( Lavee and Strier 2018; Maron 2015). At the same time, public services in Israel, particularly public social services, have adopted NPM values and practices ( Benish 2012). Under these changes, the work environment of public servants has changed dramatically ( Cohen, Benish, and Shamriz-Ilouz 2016). The convergence of NPM reforms and managerial ideologies with reforms in public policy has created a systemic deficiency in the daily work of SLBs ( Benish 2012), who must now cope with growing citizen demands and traditional expectations of government responsibility, which assume values similar to the NPS approach, all in the face of diminishing public resources ( Maron 2015). Within this environment, an examination of the IFRs that SLBs provide to clients can enrich our understanding of the general question of “who’s in charge” in contemporary public administration at the street level and reveal the hidden dynamics of service provision in the Israeli public sector. MethodsWho’s in Charge? is a 9 week child to parent violence (CPV) programme aimed at parents whose children are being abusive or violent toward them or who appear out of parental control. The structure of the programme consists of 8 two and a half hour sessions with a two-month follow up. Three Part Structure of the WIC? Group Programme Part 1 Aiming to portray the nature of contemporary service delivery, we have focused on the issue of “who’s in charge” in the frontline. Thus, the first study goal was to contribute to growing knowledge in public administration about current forms of service delivery, by highlighting its informal aspect. The second goal was to contribute to the SLB literature, providing evidence of the fundamental role SLBs play maneuvering between designed policy and citizens’ actual needs, in times of reduced formal resources. As the literature points out, together with SLBs’ formal role as policy implementers and as such committed to policy as design, professional ethics, values, and norms often provide SLBs with a “set of rules one would follow if allowed to act professionally as a member of a professional community” ( Tummers et al. 2012, 1044). Perceiving oneself as part of this community can facilitate the involvement of SLBs in areas that traditionally are not considered their expertise. This is part of their commitment to take responsibility for citizens’ well-being ( Lavee, Cohen, and Nouman 2018). Following the same logic, in the present study, workers provided personal resources to clients as part of their interpretation of their role as “miners” of public policy ( Maynard-Moody and Musheno 2003, 156–7) and their professional responsibility for citizens. Managerial Encouragement Cross-coding analysis revealed that teachers are the main providers of material IFRs. Workers in the welfare domain reported supplying informal material resources less often, whereas healthcare workers reported provision of this resource type the least frequently. Such variations may be attributed to different types of interactions with clients-citizens. Both teachers and welfare workers have long-term acquaintances with clients. Indeed, teachers might witness hardship among students (or their families) on a daily basis, allowing them to identify emergencies as well as long-term difficulties and deficiencies and highlighting the need for material assistance. Other workers, whose acquaintances with clients are short term or occasional, are probably not aware of such needs. Factors Influencing the Provision of IFRs My letting agent agreed a tenancy/move in date with the tenant but I need the date to be one week prior to the agreed date: my agent is telling me I cannot insist the tenancy start date is changed as it is not convenient to the new tenant.

The agent is employed by the landlord and therefore it is the landlord who should be in charge. As the agent is employed to act on the landlord’s behalf. The first part of the programme aims to change parental attitude, and in particular reduce blame, guilt and shame. A variety of exercises are used to deconstruct some of the unhelpful myths that parents have absorbed about their child’s behaviour. We aim to help parents and carers to understand that children’s bad behaviour is multi-causal, and we explore the nature of abuse, styles of parenting, entitlement and power and the social changes that make CPV more likely. The workday consists of appointments of seven to fifteen minutes when I meet with patients. I hear what the problem is, ask questions and examine them and provide them with home care or physical care in the clinic. And in addition to this very tight schedule, today I also need to give them a formal detailed letter of all the things I did. It goes without saying that you can’t do your job properly under these conditions (Interview 65). Interviewee: This is self-evident, even though it’s not in the job description. My superiors know and they think that’s the way it should be (Interview 51).

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Excerpt – Eddie Gallagher – 2015 (Working with Adolescent Violence and Abuse Towards Parents; approaches and contexts for intervention.) Part 3 In today's environment, there are many "voices" calling for significant and fundamental changes in ecclesiological structures. Some want to move away from the historic model of congregational government; others want to return to this model. In fact, in our own Convention, many lay people are calling for more involvement in church governance since they are the ones who "pay the bills." I hear from pastors and staff regularly who have heard this call come from the pews of their churches. The New Testament church is a spiritual fellowship. The Greek word for fellowship ( koinonia) is a beautiful word which describes spiritual fellowship, one in which there is a common bond. The BF&M 2000 clearly points out what that common bond is: the fellowship of the Gospel. On the other hand, the church must be organized to fulfill its work as given by our Lord Jesus Christ. How a particular local church is organized is where the discussion ensues. This organization calls for some type of self-government or polity. As already pointed out, there are various forms of church governance in twenty-first century church life. To the surprise of many and chagrin of others, the New Testament does not give specific institutional structural guidelines to the church. Whatever structure it does portray is quite simple and obviously met the needs of the local bodies at that time. There was function involved in the process of structure. There are functional roles discussed that seem to give us some idea of the structure which was present at the time. Many forms of church polity claim their essential ministry concepts are found in the New Testament. All claim to be a way to perform the ministry of Christ in the local church in an effective way. Some of the most often quoted verses in regard to these roles are found in 1 Timothy 3 where Paul admonishes the early church to remember the role and the character of overseers or elders. Attention is also given to the spiritual character of deacons or the leading servants of the church.