1st Edition
The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Children
Learn 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, therapeutic curricula, and family law. Practitioners and academics review dozens of studies, representative samples, probability samples, and research findings relating to children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors, adjustment difficulties, coping strategies. The book also examines:
- the association between emotional regulation and emotionality and marital and parent-child conflict in terms of children's adjustment and physical health
- how the experience of mothers in low-income families suffering severe physical abuse relates to children's behavior problems.
- how father-to-mother aggression reduces children's affinity with their parents
- problems of service delivery for battered mothers
- Canadian legislation involving wife abuse and child custody
- the well-being of families accessing treatment
- group interventions implemented in family agency and school settings
- how to develop interagency protocols
- and much more!
- 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
Biography
Robert Geffner, Robyn Spurling Igelman, Jennifer Zellner
