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Book Synopsis
Some families are dangerous environments. Most practitioners in social work, child protection, and hospital and community medicine, as well as the police, will know from their professional experience the extent of spouse abuse, child abuse, sibling violence and maltreatment of the elderly within the family setting.

Table of Contents
What is Family Violence?

Forms of Family Violence and Levels of Prevention.

Causes of Family Violence.

Coercive Family Relationships.

Predicting Spouse Maltreatment.

Preventing Spouse Maltreatment.

Predicting and Preventing Child Maltreatment.

Treating Parents Who Abuse and Neglect Their Children.

Predicting Sibling Abuse.

Predicting and Preventing Parent Abuse.

Predicting and Preventing Elder Maltreatment.

Preventing the Cycle of Violence.

Working With Violent Families.

The Cost of Domestic Violence.

References.

Indexes.

Preventing Family Violence

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      Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Published 24 April 1997
      ISBN-13 9780471941408
      978-0471941408
      ISBN-10 0471941409
      Also in:
      Domestic abuse Psychology Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Some families are dangerous environments. Most practitioners in social work, child protection, and hospital and community medicine, as well as the police, will know from their professional experience the extent of spouse abuse, child abuse, sibling violence and maltreatment of the elderly within the family setting.

      Table of Contents
      What is Family Violence?

      Forms of Family Violence and Levels of Prevention.

      Causes of Family Violence.

      Coercive Family Relationships.

      Predicting Spouse Maltreatment.

      Preventing Spouse Maltreatment.

      Predicting and Preventing Child Maltreatment.

      Treating Parents Who Abuse and Neglect Their Children.

      Predicting Sibling Abuse.

      Predicting and Preventing Parent Abuse.

      Predicting and Preventing Elder Maltreatment.

      Preventing the Cycle of Violence.

      Working With Violent Families.

      The Cost of Domestic Violence.

      References.

      Indexes.

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