Date
1-16-2025
Department
School of Behavioral Sciences
Degree
Doctor of Education in Community Care and Counseling (EdD)
Chair
Walter Thomas
Keywords
Trauma, Attachment, Childhood Abuse, Parenting, Resilience, Parenting styles/strategies
Disciplines
Counseling
Recommended Citation
Davis, Sarah, "Parenting Strategies for Adult Abuse Victims" (2025). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 6461.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/6461
Abstract
The purpose of this phenomenological proposal is to describe adults with past childhood trauma’s parenting experiences in Missouri. Growing up in an abusive household, I saw how not to parent my children once I was older. Not everyone thinks this way. Children who grow up in an abusive household do not always develop resiliency. Due to these effects, the following proposal will look at how these adults are impacted when it comes to their parenting styles. Parenting is difficult, to begin with, let alone working through your issues. Generational abuse is a common occurrence. The main research question that will be reviewed in this proposal is: How do adults with past childhood trauma describe their parenting experiences? Along with understanding how adults describe their past trauma and how they form attachment styles with their children. Overall, the proposal will review what additional parenting strategies adults need to parent their children to ensure generational abuse does not continue. There is a gap in understanding the correct way to record a person’s description of their abuse and this study will review several methods to collect the correct account of past abuse. Learning effective strategies to be a parent after childhood abuse will begin to end the cycle of abuse.