Protecting children from domestic violence : strategies for community intervention /

Protecting children from domestic violence : strategies for community intervention / edited by Peter G. Jaffe, Linda L. Baker, Alison J. Cunningham.

The impact on children of domestic violence has received increasing attention, but awareness of the problem has not always translated into public action. This forward-thinking volume brings together leading mental health, legal, educational, and social services professionals from the U.S. and Canada...

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Other Authors: Jaffe, Peter G., Baker, Linda L., Cunningham, Alison J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Guilford Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Family violence > United States.
Family violence > Canada.
Child abuse > United States > Prevention.
Child abuse > Canada > Prevention.
Family services > United States.
Family services > Canada.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Introduction to the problem
  • Purpose and overview / Peter G. Jaffe, Linda L. Baker, and Alison J. Cunningham
  • Should childhood exposure to adult domestic violence be defined as child maltreatment under the law? / Jeffrey L. Edleson
  • Young children exposed to adult domestic violence: incidence, assessment, and intervention / B.B. Robbie Rossman, Jacqueline G. Rea, Sandra A. Graham-Bermann, and Perry M. Butterfield
  • Group intervention with abusive male adolescents / Diane Davis
  • Part II: Individual- and group-level responses
  • Fostering resilient coping in children exposed to violence: cultural considerations / Sandra A. Graham-Bermann and Hilda M. Halabu
  • Safety planning for abused women and their children / Jennifer L. Hardest and Jacquelyn C. Campbell
  • Assessing abusers risks to children / Lundy Bancroft and Jay G. Silverman
  • Fatherhood and domestic violence: exploring the role of abusive men in the lives of their children / Oliver J. Williams, Jacquelyn Boggess, and Janet Carter
  • Part III: System-level responses
  • The ethnic media outreach project: Canada is a country for women / Melpa Kamateros
  • Police in the lives of children exposed to domestic violence: collaborative approaches to intervention / Miriam Berkman, Robert L. Casey, Steven J. Berkowitz, and Steven Marans
  • The role of family courts in domestic violence: the Canadian experience / Martha Shaffer and Nicholas Bala
  • The role of family courts in domestic violence: the U.S. experience / Billie Lee Dunford-Jackson
  • The fourth R: developing healthy relationships through school-based interventions / Peter G. Jaffe, David Wolfe, Claire Crooks, Ray Hughes, and Linda L. Baker
  • Part IV: Conclusions
  • Future directions in ending domestic violence in the lives of children / Linda L. Baker, Alison J. Cunningham, and Peter G. Jaffe.

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