Preventing Family Violence

by Browne, Kevin D.; Herbert, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780471941408
• ISBN10: 0471941409
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-25
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Some families are dangerous environments. Most practitioners in social work, child protection, and hospital and community medicine, as well as the police, will know from their professional experience the extent of spouse abuse, child abuse, sibling violence and maltreatment of the elderly within the family setting. Understanding family violence is the first step towards prevention. This book deals with the nature and causes of abuse within the family, with its prediction and assessment, and with methods for intervention and prevention. Reflecting the research evidence of cycles of violence and maltreatment, the book is organized as a progressive analysis of abuse of spouses, children, siblings, parents and family elders. The authors are both well known for their academic and professional work with families, and have written this book for professionals requiring a research- and evidence-based (rather than anecdotal) guide to the problems of family violence and to the best practice in related intervention work with families and couples. This book is published in the Wiley Series in Family Psychology edited by Neil Frude, University of Wales, Cardiff.

Author Biography

Kevin D. Browne is the author of Preventing Family Violence.

Martin Herbert is Professor Emeritus at Exeter University. He was previously a lecturer and clinician at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. This was followed by the post of Director of the School of Social Work and Professor and Head of the School of Psychology and clinical training at Leicester University. He later joined the National Health Service full time and was in charge of the Mental Health Service for children in Plymouth. This post was succeeded by a move to Exeter, where he founded and directed the Doctoral Course in Clinical Psychology as Professor of Clinical and Community Psychology. He was appointed to the Consultant Clinical Psychology post in the Child and Adolescent Department at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Health Care Trust. For several years he was a Mental Health Act Commissioner. He now specialises in personal injury psycho-legal work and the evaluation of parent training courses, one of which - the Child Wise Behaviour Management Programme - he codesigned for use in Sure Start and NHS settings. He has published books and journal articles on the psychological problems of children, adolescents and adults.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of tables	xi
About the Authors	xiii
Foreword	xv
David Finkelhor
Preface	xvii
Acknowledgements	xix
Introduction What is family violence?	1	(7)
Forms of family violence and levels of prevention	8	(15)
Causes of family violence	23	(18)
Coercive family relationships	41	(19)
Predicting spouse maltreatment	60	(25)
Preventing spouse maltreatment	85	(26)
Predicting and preventing child maltreatment	111	(35)
Treating parents who abuse and neglect their children	146	(33)
Predicting sibling abuse	179	(16)
Predicting and preventing parent abuse	195	(29)
Predicting and preventing elder maltreatment	224	(22)
Preventing the cycle of violence	246	(25)
Working with violent families	271	(23)
Conclusion The cost of domestic violence	294	(12)
References	306	(60)
Author Index	366	(10)
Subject Index	376