Children Exposed to Domestic Violence

A Teacher's Handbook to Increase Understanding and Improve Community Responses

by Linda L. Baker, P.G. Jaffe, L.M. Ashbourne & J. Carter (2002). This 26-page resource helps educators understand how violence affects children at different ages, what teachers may see in the classroom, teaching strategies, handling parent-attended events, and supporting students who disclose. Development of this resource was funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. ~ $25.00.

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Table of Contents

• The importance of this topic

• Definitions

• Power and Control Wheel

• Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey

• Impacts on children and adolescents

• Potential impacts at different ages

• Signs a student is having difficulty

• What teachers may see

• Responding when students display troubling behavior

• Teaching Strategies

• School and community partnerships

• When a parent is a victim of domestic violence

• Ways to support a student who makes a disclosure

• Guidelines to assist teachers' decision making and formal responses to disclosures

• Reporting to child protection services

• Safety planning

• Community responses

• School-based violence prevention

• Where to go for help

• Resources

• References

Companion CD-ROM

This interactive CD-ROM is a companion to the handbook to use as a learning tool for individual study or training workshops. ~ $5.00

Ordering Information

The handbook is available from the Centre for $25.00 plus shipping and handling and the CD is available for $5.00. Check out the order form for more information.

The Packard Handbooks

There are three other resources in the Packard Handbook series: for police, youth justice workers, and early childhood educators.