NCJ Number
168285
Editor(s)
R Geffner,
S B Sorenson,
P K Lundberg-Love
Date Published
1997
Length
383 pages
Annotation
In this collection of articles, editors have distilled important questions associated with violence and sexual abuse in the home based on the writings of leading researchers and clinicians in the fields of family violence and child maltreatment.
Abstract
The book is intended for use by clinicians who work with both perpetrators and victims of spouse and child abuse and by persons who develop community-based services for victims and offenders. Beginning articles explore current issues, interventions, and research related to family violence; therapist awareness of appropriate intervention in the treatment of domestic violence; ethical responsibilities of therapists in spouse abuse cases; biopsychosocial aspects of understanding relationship aggression; and implications of research concerning wife abuse for physician training. Subsequent articles examine battered women, female offenders in domestic violence, multifaceted approaches to spouse abuse treatment, risk factors for the occurrence of child abuse and neglect, child homicide in Los Angeles, physical abuse and childhood disability, children of battered women, and psychological maltreatment of children. Final articles focus on child sexual maltreatment, incest survivors incest offenders, sibling child sexual abuse, treatment strategies for sexually abused children, treatment strategies for dissociative identity disorders in adult sexual abuse survivors, and characteristics and treatment of incest offenders. References, tables, and figures