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The present study aimed to understand how GPs and nurses experience the response to child abuse in primary healthcare.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study employed qualitative methods. Twenty-six in-depth individual and group interviews were conducted with 30 GPs and nurses. The interviews were audio recorded with consent, transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The participants were mostly metropolitan-based female GPs. Participants were sampled from two settings: private general practice and community health; and Doctors in Secondary Schools, a program that places GPs and nurses in high schools. Thematic analysis generated four themes:\n                      <jats:italic>blowing trust out of the water; riding the reaction wave; opening a hornet\u2019s nest;<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>battling emotions.<\/jats:italic>\n                      Participants felt that, in considering child abuse, they were betraying the trust of the therapeutic relationship and thus, had to manage their patients\u2019 reactions to preserve the therapeutic relationship. They used strategies that created shifts in perception in both themselves and their patients to help maintain the therapeutic relationship. Participants often felt that they had to compromise their professional code of ethics to fulfil their mandatory reporting obligations. Thus, they experienced internal emotional battles when responding which led to some experiencing burnout or vicarious trauma and others resilience. This complex interplay of relationship and emotional management was placed in the context of emotional labour theory. We contend that our participants undertook emotional labour across three levels: internal, organisational and systemic.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We conclude that the emotional labour exerted in the response to child abuse can be diminished by: developing strategies for therapeutic relationship management; undertaking an internal, organisational and systemic values assessment; and facilitating communication between health professionals and the child protection system.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12875-022-01661-7","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,17]],"date-time":"2022-03-17T15:04:58Z","timestamp":1647529498000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Tensions in the therapeutic relationship: emotional labour in the response to child abuse and neglect in primary healthcare"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Jacqueline","family":"Kuruppu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cathy","family":"Humphreys","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gemma","family":"McKibbin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kelsey","family":"Hegarty","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"1661_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1596\/33573","volume-title":"Global status report on preventing violence against children","author":"World Health Organization","year":"2020","unstructured":"World Health Organization. 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