Families globally experience child to parent violence (CPV). Stories of CPV have been considered at an individual and collective level to ascertain themes in parents’ accounts to identify enabling and restraining factors for CPV. However, understanding the societal narratives, defined as discourses, which have a multi-directional and entangled relationship with individual recounts of CPV have yet to be investigated. This research utilizes Narrative Inquiry with participatory approaches to explicate the societal narratives within mothers’ recounts of CPV. This analysis, guided by the interactional and discursive view of violence, and response-based practice, identifies societal narratives which set the conditions for what is possible and impossible in relation to CPV. The analysis contributes to understanding the attitudes of minimization and concealment of violence within parents’ accounts of CPV. The mothers’ recounts were constrained and made possible by the ‘good’ mother narrative and narratives of adolescence and gender. This research examines the intra-actions mothers’ recounts have with the societal narratives, and the performance of their roles as (en)actors of the subject positions ‘mother’ and ‘child’. Implications for practice and research include: consideration to practitioner’s views of power and subject positions in a parent and child relationship when working with CPV; and practitioners to be critical of essentialism and gender in working with CPV. This study posits a practical demonstration for using the response-based practice approach in research; and a way of viewing stories which can be incorporated in working with families experiencing CPV.

全球家庭都经历过儿童对父母的暴力（CPV）。 CPV 的故事已在个人和集体层面上进行考虑，以确定家长叙述中的主题，从而确定 CPV 的促进和限制因素。然而，理解社会叙事（定义为话语）与个人对 CPV 的叙述有着多向且纠缠的关系，仍有待研究。本研究利用叙事探究和参与式方法来解释母亲对 CPV 的叙述中的社会叙事。这一分析以暴力的互动性和话语性观点以及基于反应的实践为指导，确定了社会叙事，这些叙事为与 CPV 相关的可能和不可能的事情设定了条件。该分析有助于理解父母对 CPV 的描述中对暴力最小化和隐瞒的态度。母亲们的叙述受到“好”母亲叙述以及青春期和性别叙述的限制并成为可能。这项研究考察了母亲的叙述与社会叙事的内部行动，以及她们作为“母亲”和“孩子”主体位置的演员的角色表现。对实践和研究的影响包括： 在与 CPV 合作时，考虑从业者对父母与子女关系中的权力和主体地位的看法；以及从业者在与 CPV 合作时对本质主义和性别持批评态度。本研究为在研究中使用基于响应的实践方法提供了实际示范；以及一种可以纳入与患有 CPV 的家庭一起工作的观看故事的方式。