Working with Violent Families A Guide for Clinical and Legal Practitioners [Paperback]

This is a comprehensive review of the literature on the four major forms of family violence: child abuse, child sexual abuse, conjugal violence and violence towards the elderly. Written from both clinical and legal perspectives, the book is designed to show practitioners and students what to do when individual or family victimization has occurred. It also provides suggestions for improving on the detection of violence and reducing its occurrence.This is a comprehensive review of the literature on the four major forms of family violence: child abuse, child sexual abuse, conjugal violence and violence towards the elderly. Written from both clinical and legal perspectives, the book is designed to show practitioners and students what to do when individual or family victimization has occurred. It also provides suggestions for improving on the detection of violence and reducing its occurrence.PART ONE: THE VIOLENT FAMILY - AN INTRODUCTION
Unkept Promises of Family Violence Research and Practice
Getting To Know You
Fundamentals About the Family
PART TWO: CAPTURING THE CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTS
Critical Issues in the Violent Family's Social Environment
The Psychological Environment of the Violent Family
PART THREE: VIOLENT FAMILY PERSONALITIES AND PROCESSES
The Family Violence Victim
Common Points of Practitioner Study and Intervention
The Perpetrator in the Violent Family
`Special People' in the Violent Family
The Family Violence Process
PART FOUR: CAPTURING THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PRACTITIONERS' ENVIRONMENT I: LEGAL WORK AND THE VIOLENT FAMILY
The Legal Environment of Physical Child Maltreatment
The Legal Environment of the Child Sexual Abuse Situation
The Legal Environment of Conjugal Violence
Mistreatment of the Elderly
Disproportion in Knowledge and Response
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