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Battling the Passions: The Birth of a Conceptual Understanding of Suspicion for Child Abuse and Neglect
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-18, 18:30 authored by Einboden, R, Rudge, T, Varcoe, CLegal obligations for reporting child abuse and neglect have positioned suspicion as a trigger for nursing responses. Suspicion dwells between emotion and thought, and is fraught with uncertainty. Given the importance of suspicion to initiating child protection, suspicion requires critical examination. Spinoza’s ideas of the imagination, and his distinctive inclusion of emotions in understanding human knowledge, provide a framework to explore the human experience of suspicion. These theoretical dimensions of suspicion are illustrated using a recent newspaper article of a missing child in Sydney, Australia. This process reveals the ontological vulnerability of the human mind to construct knowledge that is heavily influenced by our emotionality, our close social connections and our social values. Attending to these vulnerabilities generates new possibilities for understanding and using human suspicions of child abuse and neglect more effectively and creatively in nursing practice.
History
Publication title
Aporia: the nursing journalPagination
5-14ISSN
1918-1345Department/School
School of Health SciencesPublisher
University of OttawaPlace of publication
CanadaRights statement
Copyright 2011 The Author(s) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada (CC BY 2.5 CA) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/Repository Status
- Open