Family violence across the lifespan : an introduction /
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| Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks :
Sage Publications, Inc.,
[2005]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Why are families violent?
- Discovering family violence: how social conditions become social problems
- Discovering child maltreatment: the historical context
- Discovering child physical abuse
- Discovering child sexual abuse
- Discovering child neglect and child psychological maltreatment
- Discovering adult victimization: the historical context
- Discovering battered women
- Discovering battered men?
- Discovering marital rape
- Discovering dating violence
- Discovering elder abuse
- International issues in the discovery of family violence
- New and emerging issues
- Gay and lesbian violence
- Cross-cultural factors
- Defining family violence: understanding the social construction of deviance definitions
- What is a family?
- What is violence?
- A definition of family violence
- Family violence and the law
- Introducing issues in practice, policy and prevention
- Prevention of family violence
- Family support and training programs
- School-based programs
- Community awareness campaigns
- Intervention strategies
- Mandatory reporting laws
- Family preservation, foster care, and adoption
- Criminal justice issues
- Shelters and hotlines
- Treating offenders and victims
- Coordinated community responses
- Summary
- Goals of the book
- Discussion questions
- Recommended readings
- Boxed insert 1.1: distinguishing maltreatment from abuse
- Boxed insert 1.2: common myths about family violence
- Boxed insert 1.3: personalizing family violence research
- Research methodology, assessment, and theories: investigating the problem of family violence
- Introduction
- Case history #2a: juanita's broken heart and broken body
- Studying family violence: a multidisciplinary effort
- Box #2a: conflicting goals of researchers and practitioners: need for collaboration
- Sociological research
- Social work research
- Criminological research
- Psychological and psychiatric research
- Medical, nursing, and public health research
- Legal research
- Expansion of federal government research
- Section summary
- Theoretical explanations of family violence
- Macrotheory: explaining patterns of family violence
- Cultural explanations
- Interview 2a: kersti yllo - must update
- Social-structural factors
- Deterrence: low cost of family violence
- Microtheory: explaining the behavior of violent family members
- Socialization and learning theories
- Table 1: expansion of learning theories
- Individual (intrapersonal) difference theories
- Interpersonal interaction theories
- Multidimensional theories
- Section summary
- Methodology: how researchers try to answer questions about family violence
- Box #2b: issues related to family violence research
- Methodological issues in family violence
- Sources of data
- Assessment and research design issues
- Lack of theoretical foundation
- Definitional disagreements
- Populations sampled
- Comparison groups
- Longitudinal (outcome) studies
- Diversity awareness - inclusion of minority groups
- Family violence scales and measurement issues
- Interview #2b: k. daniel o'leary
- Conflict tactics scales (cts1)
- Revised conflict tactics scales (cts2)
- Box #2c: types of questions on the cts2
- Box #2d: types of questions on the cts-pc
- Estimating rates of family violence
- Growing recognition of psychological abuse
- Need for multiple measurements
- Cultural competence in assessment
- Statistical and evaluation matters
- Researcher training
- Univariate and multivariate designs
- Case histories and qualitative studies
- Ethical issues
- Section summary
- Practice, policy, and prevention issues
- Practice issues
- Policy implications
- Summary
- Discussion questions
- Suggested readings.