Clinicians know from experience that some children who have been exposed to domestic violence are severely affected by the experience, whereas others appear relatively unscathed. Much less clear is what protects children in the latter group, and how the larger community and social environment impedes or enhances adjustment in their families. This collection of studies builds on two previous APA publications (Children Exposed to Marital Violence, edited by Holden, Geffner, and Jouriles, 1998, and Violence Against Children in the Family and the Community edited by Trickett and Schellenbach, 1998). This book is intentionally future-oriented, charting new directions for productive research and integrating the hitherto separate areas of domestic violence and child maltreatment research. Cutting edge methodology is emphasized, with the contributors discussing important research constructs, the best available measures and methods of analyzing data, the effectiveness of interventions, and implications for public policy. This book will be invaluable to researchers, policy makers, and all those who care about improving our understanding of the impact of domestic violence on children.

Table of Contents
Introduction

1. Understanding Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence
   1. Issues and Controversies in Documenting the Prevalence of Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence by Ernest N. Jouriles, Renee McDonald, William D. Norwood, and Elizabeth Ezell
   2. Longer Term Effects of Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence by B. B. Robbie Rossman
   3. Resilience in Children Exposed to Domestic Violenceby Honore M. Hughes, Sandra A. Graham-Bermann, and Gabrielle Gruber
   4. Studying the Co-Occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Domestic Violence Families by Jeffrey L. Edleson
   5. Ethically Sound Research on Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence: A Proposal by Einat Peled
2. Providing Context: The Role of Families and Social Support
   6. Overcoming Mother Blaming? Future Directions for Research on Mothering and Domestic Violence by Lorraine Radford and Marianne Hester
   7. Fatherhood and Domestic Violence: Exploring the Role of Men Who Batter in the Lives of Their Childrenby Oliver J. Williams, Jacqueline L. Boggess, and Janet Carter
   8. Domestic Violence and High-Conflict Divorce: Developing a New Generation of Research for Childrenby Peter G. Jaffe, Samantha E. Poisson, and Alison Cunningham
   9. Researching Children's Experience of Interparental Violence: Toward a Multidimensional Conceptualizationby Zvi Eisikovits and Zeev Winstok
   10. Critical Issues in Research on Social Networks and Social Supports of Children Exposed to Domestic Violence by Sandra K. Beeman
3. Preventive Intervention Intiatives and Evalutations
   11. Designing Intervention Evaluations for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Applications of Research and Theory by Sandra A. Graham-Bermann
   12. Evaluating Coordinated Community Responses for Abused Women and Their Children by Cris M. Sullivan and Nicole E. Allen
   13. Prevention of Domestic Violence: Emerging Initiatives

   Pub date 2002 332pp 8 hours CE
   

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