Growing up with Domestic Violence

Assessment, Intervention & Prevention Strategies for Children & Adolescents

by Peter Jaffe, David Wolfe & Marcie Campbell (2011)
Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe Publishing.

This compact and easy-to-read text by leading experts shows practitioners and students how to recognize the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on children and youth and to provide effective clinical interventions and school-based prevention programs.

Description

• Terminology

• Definitions

• Definitions for Court and Community Intervention

• Epidemiology

• Course and Prognosis

• Infants and Young Children

• School-Age Children

• Adolescents

• Sex Differences

• Risk and Protective Factors

• Longer Term Effects

• Differential Diagnosis

• Comorbidities

• Diagnostic Procedures and Documentation

Theories and Models of the Effects of IPV on Children

• Developmental Traumatology

• Cognitive-Contextual Framework

• Social Learning Theory

• Feminist Theory

• Summary of Theoretical Perspectives

Diagnosis and Treatment Indications

• Diagnostic Considerations

• Stability and Personal Safety

• Risk Assessment

• Working with Police and Child Protection

• Working with Family Court Around Custody and Access Arrangements

• Helping Children Adjust to Disruption and Loss

• Nature and Severity of Children's Symptoms

• Summary

Interventions for Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

• Methods of Treatment

• Individual Treatment Approaches

• Group Treatments

• Interventions Involving Parents/Caregivers

• Mechanisms of Action

• Efficacy and Prognosis

• Variations and Combinations of Methods

• Universal Prevention Strategies

• Problems in Carrying Out the Treatments

Case Vignettes

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