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Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Animal Abuse: Linking the Circles of Compassion for Prevention and Intervention

Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Animal Abuse: Linking the Circles of Compassion for Prevention and Intervention (1999).
Author: Frank R. Ascione, Phil Arkow
ISBN: 1557531420

As early intervention is critical in the prevention and reduction of aggression, this book encourages researchers and professionals to recognize animal abuse as a significant problem and a human public-health issue that should be included as a curriculum topic in training. The book is an interdisciplinary sourcebook of original essays that examine the relations between animal maltreatment and human interpersonal violence, expand the scope of research in this growing area, and provide practical assessment and documentation strategies to help professionals confronting violence do their jobs better by attending to these connections.


Child Custody and Domestic Violence : A Call for Safety and Accountability

Child Custody and Domestic Violence : A Call for Safety and Accountability (2002).
Authors: Peter Jaffe, Nancy Lemon, Samantha Poisson
ISBN: 0761918264

Focuses on the complexity of the challenges facing judges, lawyers, legislators, and mental health professionals in developing safe and effective strategies for resolving custody disputes. Jaffe, Lemon, and Poisson integrate the most recent clinical and legal issues in the field in considering the prevalence of divorce and domestic violence as well as the relevance of domestic violence in custody disputes. The authors outline the essential differences between custody disputes with and without allegations and findings of domestic violence, and the different analysis and distinct interventions by judges, policymakers, and mental health professionals necessary in domestic violence cases.


Children of Battered Women (Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry)

Children of Battered Women (Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 21) (1990).
Author: Peter G. Jaffe, David A. Wolfe, Susan Kaye Wilson
ISBN: 0803933843

Discusses the links between violence and spouse abuse on child development and clinical dysfunction, children's views of violence and strategies for intervention and prevention. Methods of assessing children and families, obstacles to identifying child victims, and the roles of various institutions and services such as courts, schools and shelters are detailed. The authors review several intervention strategies including one that they have developed. They discuss cases, conceptual models of abuse and dysfunction, and empirical research to portray the scope of the problem and explore promising avenues of resolution.


Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Current Issues in Research, Intervention, Prevention, and Policy Development

Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Current Issues in Research, Intervention, Prevention, and Policy Development (2000).
Author: Robert, Ph.D. Geffner, Peter G., Ph.D. Jaffe, Marlies, Ph.D. Sundermann
ISBN: 0789008203

Presents an international perspective on the legal and mental health issues related to the impact of violence on children. Members of the medical sciences, mental health, legal, educational and other helping professions will gain information on research, intervention, prevention and policy development for children, victims of battering, batterers and their families.


Children and Interparental Violence: The Impact of Exposure

Children and Interparental Violence: The Impact of Exposure (1999).
Author: B. B. Robbie Rossman, Honore M. Hughes, Mindy Susan Rosenberg ISBN: 0876309589

Prevention and intervention models (including great detail on risk and protective factors), techniques, and programs are discussed, as well as research evaluating their usefulness. Keeping in mind the goal of integrating practice and policy with current violence and developmental research and theory, numerous case examples take the reader from the lab and classroom into the session room and courtroom.


Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children: The Future of Research, Intervention, and Social Policy

Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children: The Future of Research, Intervention, and Social Policy (2001).
Author: Sandra A. Graham-Bermann, Jeffrey L. Edleson
ISBN: 1557987793

A collection of studies building on two previous APA volumes: Children Exposed to Marital Violence, c1998, and Violence Against Children in the Family and the Community, c1998. Oriented toward future research in this area, particularly with regard to cutting edge methodology. For researchers, policymakers, psychologists and psychiatrists.


Groupwork with Children of Battered Women : A Practitioner's Manual

Groupwork with Children of Battered Women : A Practitioner's Manual (1994).
Authors: Einat Peled, Diane Davis
ISBN: 0803955154

The programme, aimed at children aged from four to 12 years, provides a framework for healing and education. Peled and Davis guide readers through an initial child assessment, with sample intake forms provided in an appendix. They then describe both group sessions for the children that take place over a 10-week period and concurrently run parenting skills groups. The authors go on to detail a family session which marks the conclusion of the programme.


Making an Impact: Children and Domestic Violence

Making an Impact: Children and Domestic Violence (2000).
Author: Marianne Hester, Chris Pearson, Nicola Harwin
ISBN: 1853028444

Looks at the links between domestic violence and the abuse of children and assesses its effects on their future well-being. Also discusses practical issues for interventions with children, their carers, and domestic violence perpetrators. For professionals. Expanded-outline format.


Protecting Children from Domestic Violence : Strategies for Community Intervention

Protecting Children from Domestic Violence : Strategies for Community Intervention (2004).
Authors: Peter G. Jaffe, Linda L. Baker, Alison J. Cunningham (Editors)
ISBN: 157230992X

Provides an understanding of the effects of childhood exposure to domestic violence; considers the most promising assessment approaches; and examines specific interventions with victims and offenders, ranging from individual and group approaches to broader efforts involving schools, police, courts, and the media. Also addressed are the complexity of working with families from diverse cultural backgrounds and the often-ignored subject of how to enhance the roles of fathers in their children's lives.



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