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Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children


$119.00
NA04

8 hours CE
Sandra A. Graham-Bermann and Jeffrey L. Edelson (Eds)

This book contains an excellent collection of studies on the effects on children who are exposed to domestic violence. Concepts of resilience, visitation problems with fathers who batter, parental alienation, and prevention interventions are among the many topics discussed.

Learning Objectives

1. describe the effects of domestic violence on children
2. identify the factors that increase the risk for domestic violence
3. identify interventions that provide social support to children who are victims of domestic violence
4. identify appropriate, effective treatments
5. describe the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder in children exposed to domestic violence

1. Understanding Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence
   1. Issues and Controversies in Documenting the Prevalence of Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence by Ernest N. Jouriles, Renee McDonald, William D. Norwood, and Elizabeth Ezell
   2. Longer Term Effects of Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence by B. B. Robbie Rossman
   3. Resilience in Children Exposed to Domestic Violenceby Honore M. Hughes, Sandra A. Graham-Bermann, and Gabrielle Gruber
   4. Studying the Co-Occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Domestic Violence Families by Jeffrey L. Edleson
   5. Ethically Sound Research on Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence: A Proposal by Einat Peled
2. Providing Context: The Role of Families and Social Support
   6. Overcoming Mother Blaming? Future Directions for Research on Mothering and Domestic Violence by Lorraine Radford and Marianne Hester
   7. Fatherhood and Domestic Violence: Exploring the Role of Men Who Batter in the Lives of Their Childrenby Oliver J. Williams, Jacqueline L. Boggess, and Janet Carter
   8. Domestic Violence and High-Conflict Divorce: Developing a New Generation of Research for Childrenby Peter G. Jaffe, Samantha E. Poisson, and Alison Cunningham
   9. Researching Children's Experience of Interparental Violence: Toward a Multidimensional Conceptualizationby Zvi Eisikovits and Zeev Winstok
   10. Critical Issues in Research on Social Networks and Social Supports of Children Exposed to Domestic Violence by Sandra K. Beeman
3. Preventive Intervention Intiatives and Evalutations
   11. Designing Intervention Evaluations for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Applications of Research and Theory by Sandra A. Graham-Bermann
   12. Evaluating Coordinated Community Responses for Abused Women and Their Children by Cris M. Sullivan and Nicole E. Allen
   13. Prevention of Domestic Violence: Emerging Initiatives

   Pub date 2002 332pp 8 hours CE
   

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