| Summary: | The aim of this study was to highlight teachers awareness of children who are exposed to violence and to create an understanding of the teachers role in finding children living with domestic violence. We chose a qualitative method because our intention was to get the interviewees unique experience about children living with domestic violence and their prerequisites to find those children. Semi-structured interviews provided access to an understanding of how individuals perceived themselves and their experiences and provided a wide range of material. The studys result was based on nine semi-structured interviews with teachers in grades 0-3. An interview guide containing prepared questions created space for the interviewees to respond freely and to openly express their thoughts and experiences. Our result showed that teachers described violence as physical violence, in the form of strokes, shuffles, bruises and hair that have been pulled off and psychological violence, in the form of mines, verbal abuse and exploitation, and sexual violence in the form of sexual assault. The result also showed that the interviewees found it hard to determine whether the pupil felt bad or had difficulties in concentration that depended on circumstances such as sick or divorced parents, violence or any kind of diagnosis. The interviewees lacked a template or tool to help detect a child who was maltreated at home. There was also a lack of education in violence among the interviewees.
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