Author: Committee on the Assessment of Family Violence Interventions Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309522692 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 441
Book Description
Reports of mistreated children, domestic violence, and abuse of elderly persons continue to strain the capacity of police, courts, social services agencies, and medical centers. At the same time, myriad treatment and prevention programs are providing services to victims and offenders. Although limited research knowledge exists regarding the effectiveness of these programs, such information is often scattered, inaccessible, and difficult to obtain. Violence in Families takes the first hard look at the successes and failures of family violence interventions. It offers recommendations to guide services, programs, policy, and research on victim support and assistance, treatments and penalties for offenders, and law enforcement. Included is an analysis of more than 100 evaluation studies on the outcomes of different kinds of programs and services. Violence in Families provides the most comprehensive review on the topic to date. It explores the scope and complexity of family violence, including identification of the multiple types of victims and offenders, who require different approaches to intervention. The book outlines new strategies that offer promising approaches for service providers and researchers and for improving the evaluation of prevention and treatment services. Violence in Families discusses issues that underlie all types of family violence, such as the tension between family support and the protection of children, risk factors that contribute to violent behavior in families, and the balance between family privacy and community interventions. The core of the book is a research-based review of interventions used in three institutional sectors--social services, health, and law enforcement settings--and how to measure their effectiveness in combating maltreatment of children, domestic violence, and abuse of the elderly. Among the questions explored by the committee: Does the child protective services system work? Does the threat of arrest deter batterers? The volume discusses the strength of the evidence and highlights emerging links among interventions in different institutional settings. Thorough, readable, and well organized, Violence in Families synthesizes what is known and outlines what needs to be discovered. This volume will be of great interest to policymakers, social services providers, health care professionals, police and court officials, victim advocates, researchers, and concerned individuals.
Author: Texas. Department of Human Services. Protective Services for Families and Children Publisher: ISBN: Category : Abused children Languages : en Pages :
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism Publisher: ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 136
Author: Einat Peled Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 1452255008 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 317
Book Description
Canadian and American contributors to this book describe a wide range of programs offered to deal with the direct and indirect victims of men who batter. These include individual treatment options for children who witness the violence, parenting programs for men who batter, and prevention programs targeting high school students. For those involved in providing family services, the book is guaranteed to be both informative and thought-provoking. --John Hunsley in The Canadian Family Psychologist "There is a great deal to reflect upon in every section of the book. The chapters on assessment of children exposed to family violence, and on providing individual and group therapy for children of abused women, take up some very important issues. . . . This book is to be highly commended for its unequivocal espousal of the tenet that a child who witnesses the abuse of his or her mother is an abused child." --Chris Goddard in Child Abuse Review "This is an invaluable collection of papers that both raises awareness regarding the growing body of research that indicates the negative psychological effects domestic violence has on children even if they themselves are not the target of the violence, as well as offering practical suggestions for clinicians. It is a useful resource book for anyone working with the issue of family violence." --G. Smith in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Although there is a growing body of research on children of battered women, there has been little practical information available on intervention with these children. Ending the Cycle of Violence is the first volume to cover the varied and complex arena of intervention with children of battered women. It provides an overview of current practices including strategies and program models. The expert contributors present a concise and accessible look into four major areas: living in a violent culture, shelters and domestic violence counseling, child protection services and the criminal justice system, and prevention and education in schools and communities. Practitioners who work with battered women and their children--shelter and domestic violence program staff, battered women′s advocates, and counselors--will find this book most useful. It will also be helpful to all professionals working with children in schools, child protective services, youth programs, health and mental health agencies, institutions, group homes, and foster care settings. Ending the Cycle of Violence also provides and overview of innovations in this field that can enhance policymakers′ ability to further develop services for this at-risk population.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities Publisher: ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 128
Author: Sylvia M. Asay Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 1483310418 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 329
Book Description
Focusing on family violence worldwide, Family Violence From a Global Perspective: A Strengths-Based Approach draws on the expertise of authors from 16 countries representing 17 cultures to tell the story of domestic violence in their respective parts of the world. This one-of-a-kind edited collection by Sylvia M. Asay, John DeFrain, Marcee Metzger, and Bob Moyer incorporates a strengths-based approach, including individual, relationship, community, and societal strengths. The collection draws on multiple perspectives (academics, counselors, organizers, activists, and victims) to determine strengths and analyze how they can translate into greater safety for victims, increased accountability of perpetrators, and improved policy formation and research. Each chapter focuses on the lived experiences of victims of intimate partner violence, child abuse, or elder abuse and includes information about the abuser, the family, the community, and the culture.
Author: Robert L. Hampton Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 9780761906650 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 366
Book Description
Since the first edition, there has been an expansion of knowledge in the field of family and intimate violence. This revision offers a summary of some of the best of current scholarship conducted by family violence researchers.
Author: Kathleen M. White Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9780669208221 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Outlines a family violence treatment program within a pediatric hospital, with a particular focus on child abuse and neglect. Highlights critical conceptual and prcedural issues, and examines the limits of current clinical knowledge and related service needs. Also explores gaps between research and practice that must be addressed in the development and implementation of more effective hospital-based programs for treatment of family violence. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Committee on the Assessment of Family Violence Interventions
Author: H. Lien Bragg
Author: Texas. Department of Human Services. Protective Services for Families and Children
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism
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Author: Einat Peled
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities
Author: Sylvia M. Asay
Author: Robert L. Hampton
Author: Kathleen M. White