Ending Domestic Violen Lives Child

This forward-thinking volume brings together leading mental health, legal, educational, and social services professionals from North America to demonstrate how the problem of violence in the home can best be mitigated through community collaboration.

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 to demonstrate how the problem of violence in the home can best be mitigated through community collaboration. The book 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.<br>

Part 1: Introduction to the Problem. Jaffe, Baker, Cunningham, Purpose and Overview. Edleson, Should Childhood Exposure to Adult Domestic Violence Be Defined as Child Maltreatment under the Law? Rossman, Rea, Graham-Bermann, Butterfield, Young Children Exposed to Adult Domestic Violence: Incidence, Assessment, and Intervention. Davis, Group Intervention with Abusive Male Adolescents. Part 2: Individual- and Group-Level Responses. Graham-Bermann, Halabu, Fostering Resilient Coping in Children Exposed to Violence: Cultural Considerations. Hardesty, Campbell, Safety Planning for Abused
Women and Their Children. Bancroft, Silverman, Assessing Abusers' Risks to Children. Williams, Boggess, Carter, Fatherhood and Domestic Violence: Exploring the Role of Abusive Men in the Lives of Their Children. Part 3: System-Level Responses. Kamateros, The Ethnic Media
Outreach Project: 'Canada Is a Country for Women'. Berkman, Casey, Berkowitz, Marans, Police in the Lives of Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Collaborative Approaches
to Intervention. Shaffer, Bala, The Role of Family Courts in Domestic Violence: The Canadian Experience. Dunford-Jackson, The Role of Family Courts in Domestic Violence: The U.S. Experience. Jaffe, Wolfe, Crooks, Hughes, Baker, The Fourth R: Developing Healthy Relationships through School-Based Interventions. Part 4: Conclusions. Baker, Cunningham, Jaffe, Future Directions in Ending Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children.