Child Abuse New Directions in Prevention and Treatment across

by David A. Wolfe; Robert J. McMahon; Ray DeV Peters

• ISBN13: 9780761910954
• ISBN10: 0761910956
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-08-15
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

Experts in both child physical and sexual abuse are brought together in this volume, which focuses on both child and adult survivors. Contributors explore innovative treatment and prevention approaches, such as school and community violence prevention programmes, and preparation of children who have to testify in court.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii	(4)
The Banff Conferences on Behavioural Science	xi
PART 1: PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF CHILD PHYSICAL ABUSE	3	(154)
1. Marital Conflict, Abuse, and Adversity in the Family and Child Adjustment: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective	3	(24)
E. Mark Cummings
2. Child Physical Abuse: Review of Offender Characteristics	27	(28)
Joel S. Milner
Cynthia Dopke
3. Children and Youth Who Witness Violence: New Directions in Intervention and Prevention	55	(24)
Marlies Sudermann
Peter Jaffe
4. A Cognitive Behavioral Approach to Understanding and Treating Parents Who Physically Abuse Their Children	79	(23)
Sandra T. Azar
5. Interrupting the Cycle of Violence: Empowering Youth to Promote Healthy Relationships	102	(28)
David A. Wolfe
Christine Wekerle
Deborah Reitzel-Jaffe
Carolyn Grasley
Anna-Lee Pittman
Andrea MacEachran
6. The Prenatal Early Infancy Project: Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect in the Context of Promoting Maternal and Child Health	130	(27)
David Olds
PART 2: PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE	157	(112)
7. Trauma-Specific Therapy for Sexually Abused Children	157	(20)
Lucy Berliner
8. Treating Adults Severely Abused as Children: The Self-Trauma Model	177	(28)
John Briere
9. Psychotherapy With Sexually Abused Boys	205	(18)
William Friedrich
10. The Emergence of Sexual Abuse Treatment Models Within First Nations Communities	223	(25)
Edward A. Connors
Maurice L. B. Oates, Jr.
11. Sexually Abused Children as Witnesses: Progress and Pitfalls	248	(21)
Louise Sas
Index	269	(18)
About the Editors	287	(2)
About the Contributors	289