Hearing Young People Talk About Witnessing Domestic Violence by Susan Collis

Author:Susan Collis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

HOPEFULNESS, AFFLICTION AND PAIN

The grimness of the young people’s lives is indisputable. Peltomaki (2008) speaks of this kind of suffering as something much worse, as affliction. The definition which is used to describe ‘affliction’ is pain which scars all dimensions of a person’s life. Affliction is an extreme condition which leaves its victims powerless and with no escape. It is stated that ‘Affliction permeates the soul and affects one’s future direction, one’s destiny and one’s hope’ (ibid., p.223). It is extraordinary that hope can be silenced but hopefulness does, however, remain in the voices of the young people. It is what Peltomaki (2008) describes as a ‘clinging’ hope. There is a feeling that there may be someone who might understand the pain or at least see the suffering, and possibly work to bring an end to it:

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.