Discover research from across the United States and around the world on children exposed to domestic violence! If you are a member of a helping, medical, or legal profession, Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Current Issues in Research, Intervention, Prevention, and Policy Development will help you explore research, assessments, interventions, and policy and prevention for children, victims of battering, batterers, and their families. This important book focuses on various aspects of spousal/partner abuse and child maltreatment.
Key Features
- Exploring the importance of partnerships between the domestic violence front-line workers and researchers at universities
- Addressing the thorny issues of parenting in abused women
- Assessing all areas of children's adjustment as well as their various relationships that may be problematic
- Investigating the results of a quarter-century research on men who batter by focusing on the crucial link between exposure to violence in childhood and adult marital behaviour
- Understanding the role of physiological and environmental factors as central to domestic violence
- Exploring the challenges faced by shelter staff in providing services to children who accompany their mother to find refuge
- Examining new ideas for primary prevention programs in schools
- Understanding policy and legislative implications of the growing body of literature on the impact of exposure to violence on children
Additional Information
Comprehensive and thorough, Children Exposed to Domestic Violence focuses on three major sections: theoretical and research issues, intervention and prevention strategies, and policy development from an international perspective. Children Exposed to Domestic Violence exemplifies the serious challenges faced by social workers, educators, policymakers, psychologists, and others in helping professions working with children who have been affected.
