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Narrative Matters: Adult anxieties and prejudice against children – childism in The Twilight Zone
Author(s) -
Thomas Isaiah,
Martin Andrés
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
child and adolescent mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1475-3588
pISSN - 1475-357X
DOI - 10.1111/camh.12423
Subject(s) - prejudice (legal term) , narrative , psychosocial , psychology , twilight , child abuse , root (linguistics) , social psychology , developmental psychology , poison control , suicide prevention , medicine , psychotherapist , medical emergency , linguistics , philosophy , physics , astronomy
Understanding the root causes of child mistreatment and abuse should be a key concern of child and adolescent psychiatrists. However, the issue is often framed in such a way that we fail to ask how and why child abuse happens. One framework for the psychosocial motivations behind child abuse is the concept of childism, or prejudice against children. A series such as The Twilight Zone can offer a means of exploring unhealthy adult‐child dynamics and applying the concept of childism to better understand them.