ENDING THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

Community Responses to Children of Battered Women

Edited by: Einat Peled (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Peter G. Jaffe (Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System), and Jeffrey L. Edleson (University of Minnesota).

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART ONE:   Living in a Violent Culture

1. Introduction
Einat Peled, Peter G. Jaffe and Jeffrey Edleson

2. Learning to be Violent
Myriam Miedzian

PART TWO:   Shelters and Domestic Violence Programs

3. Assessment Following Violence-Witnessing Trauma
William Arroyo and Spencer Eth

4. Individual Psychotherapy for the Traumatized Children of Abused Women
Louise Silvern, Jane Karyl and Toby Y. Landis

5. Process and Outcome in Small Groups for Children of Battered Women
Einat Peled and Jeffrey L. Edleson

6. Empowering Battered Women as Mothers
Joan Bilinkoff

7. Parenting Groups for Men who Batter
David J. Mathews

8. Advocacy for Children of Battered Women
Honore M. Hughes and Michelle Marshall

PART THREE:   Child Protection and the Criminal Justice System

9. How Abused Women Can Use the Law to Help Protect their Children
Joan Zorza

10. Child Protection Services for Children of Battered Women: Practice and Controversy
Carole Echlin and Larry Marshall

11. Doing More Harm than Good? Some Cautions on Visitation Centres Martha McMahon and Ellen Pence

PART FOUR:   Prevention and Education in Schools and Communities

12. Teach Your Children Well: Elementary Schools and Violence Prevention
Denise Gamache and Sarah Snapp

13. Violence Prevention Programs in Secondary (High) Schools
Marlies Sudermann, Peter G. Jaffe, and Elaine Hastings

14. Strategies to Address Violence in the Lives of High-Risk Youth
David A. Wolfe, Christine Wekerle, Deborah Reitzel and Robert Gough

15. Aboriginal Canadian Children who Witness and Live with Violence
Claudette Dumont-Smith

16. Conclusion
Einat Peled, Peter G. Jaffe, and Jeffrey Edleson