Intrafamilial Child Torture (ICT) - a new and emerging category of child maltreatment-  is torture inflicted on children by their parents or other caregivers.

The Center for Child Policy developed the first interdisciplinary definition and developed the first comprehensive case study of a child torture survivor from clinical data. This case study is the first to document longitudinal outcomes of a child survivor, from childhood to adolescence, early adulthood, and middle adulthood. 

  • What Is ICT? How Does it Differ from Other Forms of Child Maltreatment?
  • Early Definitions of ICT and Writings on Torture That Have Informed Our Definition
  • Descriptions of More General Forms of Child Maltreatment
  • Contributing Factors to Child Maltreatment
  • The Dynamics of Perpetrators in ICT
  • Child Safety in Situations of ICT
  • Reunification and Family Preservation, Kinship care, Therapy
  • Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Responding to Child Torture

Download the policy report (PDF) here.

Download the case study (PDF) here.

 

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