The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Children

by Geffner; Robert

• ISBN13: 9780789021618
• ISBN10: 0789021617
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-08-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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, thera

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	xv
Introduction-Children Exposed to Interparental Violence: A Need for Additional Research and Validated Treatment Programs	1	(10)
Robert A. Geffner
Robyn Spurling Igelman
Jennifer Zehner
ADJUSTMENT IN CHILDREN EXPOSED TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: CLINICAL RESEARCH
Domestic Violence and Children's Adjustment: A Review of Research	11	(36)
Judee E. Onyskiw
Moderators of Family Conflict and Children's Adjustment and Health	47	(28)
Stephanie M. Whitson
Mona El-Sheikh
Domestic Violence and Children's Behavior in Low-Income Families	75	(28)
Ariel Kalil
Richard Tolman
Daniel Rosen
Gabrielle Gruber
Divorcing the Parents: The Impact of Adolescents' Exposure to Father-to-Mother Aggression on Their Perceptions of Affinity with Their Parents	103	(20)
Zeev Winstok
Zvi Eisikovits
Diversity of Children's Immediate Coping Responses to Witnessing Domestic Violence	123	(26)
Nicole E. Allen
Angela M. Wolf
Deborah L. Bybee
Cris M. Sullivan
PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION FOR CHILDREN EXPOSED TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
In Search of Protective Processes for Children Exposed to Interparental Violence	149	(34)
Patricia K. Kerig
Treating Children Exposed to Domestic Violence	183	(20)
Laurel Carter
Steven J. Kay
Jacqueline L. George
Pamela King
EFFECTS OF TREATMENT: OUTCOME RESEARCH
Group Interventions for Children At-Risk from Family Abuse and Exposure to Violence: A Report of a Study	203	(24)
Janet R. Johnston
An Examination of Children Exposed to Marital Violence Accessing a Treatment Intervention	227	(26)
Karen M. MacMillan
Lisa L. Harpur
Wife Abuse, Child Custody and Access in Canada	253	(24)
Martha Shaffer
Nicholas Bala
Don't Take My Kids: Barriers to Service Delivery for Battered Mothers and Their Young Children	277	(18)
Ellen R. DeVoe
Erica L. Smith
Index	295