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Book SynopsisLearn how to help children cope with domestic violence!
The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Children examines the short- and long-term developmental issues facing children exposed to violence in their own homes. The book addresses the growing concern for children at risk of suffering psychological, behavioral, social, and educational problems, and for the effects childhood maltreatment may have on their adult lives. An interdisciplinary panel of researchers, academicians, attorneys, clinicians, and practitioners discuss treatment programs, theoretical perspectives, research and methodological issues, assessment and intervention, and forensic issues, including child custody.
The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Children addresses the emotional and behavioral disturbances children can suffer after being exposed to violence between their parents. It examines methodological and theoretical challenges, pilot programs for treatment, intervention models, ther
Table of Contents
- About the Contributors
- Introduction-Children Exposed to Interparental Violence: A Need for Additional Research and Validated Treatment Programs
- ADJUSTMENT IN CHILDREN EXPOSED TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: CLINICAL RESEARCH
- Domestic Violence and Children’s Adjustment: A Review of Research
- Moderators of Family Conflict and Children’s Adjustment and Health
- Domestic Violence and Children’s Behavior in Low-Income Families
- Divorcing the Parents: The Impact of Adolescents’ Exposure to Father-to-Mother Aggression on Their Perceptions of Affinity with Their Parents
- Diversity of Children’s Immediate Coping Responses to Witnessing Domestic Violence
- PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION FOR CHILDREN EXPOSED TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
- In Search of Protective Processes for Children Exposed to Interparental Violence
- Treating Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
- EFFECTS OF TREATMENT: OUTCOME RESEARCH
- Group Interventions for Children At-Risk from Family Abuse and Exposure to Violence: A Report of a Study
- An Examination of Children Exposed to Marital Violence Accessing a Treatment Intervention
- LEGAL ISSUES AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
- Wife Abuse, Child Custody and Access in Canada
- Don’t Take My Kids: Barriers to Service Delivery for Battered Mothers and Their Young Children
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
