Mapping the Gaps Between Expert and Public Understandings of Child Maltreatment and Child Sexual Abuse in Alberta [Frameworks Institute]

In this analysis, FrameWorks provides Alberta-based strategies for creating new ways of talking and thinking about child maltreatment and child sexual abuse. In 2014, the Canadian Medical Association Journal reported that approximately one third of all Canadians were abused as children.
This striking prevalence suggests that Albertans’ opinions about maltreatment are certainly influenced by personal experience. Simultaneously, narrative frames in the mass media influence and shift public perceptions and responses to child maltreatment. Understanding what the media are saying about child maltreatment—and how they are saying it—is a critical step towards changing the direction of public discourse and action on this issue.

See the issue at 
http://www.albertafamilywellness.org/sites/default/files/file_attach/It%27s%20hard%20to%20wrap%20your%20head%20around_Alberta_maltreatment_mTG.pdf