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My adorable paper!

 

I was delighted this morning to receive a warm and convivial email from Ms. Veronica, the managing editor of EC paediatrics, an ‘internationally profound journal’ that is delighted to publish my ‘wonderful and adorable’ paper in their archive. Having seen my ‘immense track research in neonatal care and child health’ their warm wishes ‘nourishes our precious relationship that started all the way through LinkedIn!’

In spite of the dizzying heights of superlative obsequiousness reached by her email, I fear the reality that I haven’t published any research on neonatal care means I am going to have to disappoint dear Ms Veronica.

Am I just a callous ivory-tower academic with no ounce of warm-hearted feelings to such a precious relationship?

 

Dear Dr. Peter Sidebotham,

Pleased to convey our warm wishes from EC Paediatrics, that nourishes our precious relationship that started all the way through LinkedIn!

We at ECPE, an Internationally profound journal carries out thorough Double blinded peer review; Gives prompt acknowledgement after acceptance of article for peer review; Performs Rapid publication after the article is peer reviewed; Accepts and Publishes papers with excellence, novelty and originality; Issues Publication Certificate to author; Provides high visibility of your published work through Google Scholar.

Having seen your immense track research in neonatal care and child health, we are aspiring to publish your wonderful article in the archive of EC Paediatrics.

Therefore, it is our delight to have your adorable paper by September 20, 2017.
With pleasure, we are always ready to clarify your queries!

Hope to work with you soon!
With Kind Regards,
Ms. Veronica
Managing Editor

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Learning To Listen: To Young People, Parents, Perpetrators

I don’t matildawant to talk about it… It’s too horrible. But in the end I became so frightened of her I used to start shaking when she came into the room.
So said Matilda’s teacher, Miss Honey, in Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book (Dahl and Blake, 1989, p. 198). In a simple children’s story, Dahl poignantly captures just how difficult young people (and adults) find it to talk about the abuse they experience:
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn’t face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young (p. 195).
The reality of that is captured in the first paper in the latest issue of Child Abuse Review. In a review of research on disclosure of child sexual abuse, Rosaleen McElvaney (2015) highlights both quantitative data on the prevalence of non-disclosure and delays in disclosure, and qualitative data exploring the complexity and individuality of issues around disclosure. McElvaney concludes that ‘significant numbers of children do not disclose experiences of sexual abuse until adulthood and adult survey results suggest that significant proportions of adults have never disclosed such abuse’ (p. 161)

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