Violence in families : assessing prevention and treatment programs / Rosemary Chalk and Patricia A. King, editors ; Committee on the Assessment of Family Violence Interventions, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine.

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TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 392 pages)Content type:

text

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0585019924
9780585019925
9780309054966
0309054966
0309175461
9780309175463
0309522692
9780309522694

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Violence in families.DDC classification:

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HV6626.2 .V56 1998eb

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1998 D-449
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Contents:

Introduction -- Family violence and family violence interventions -- Improving evaluation -- Social service interventions -- Legal interventions -- Health care interventions -- Comprehensive and collaborative interventions -- Cross-cutting issues -- Conclusions and recommendations.

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Summary: Violence in Families takes the first hard look at the successes and failures of family violence interventions. It offers recommendations to guide services, programs, policy, and research on victim support and assistance, treatments and penalties for offenders, and law enforcement. Included is an analysis of 114 evaluation studies on the outcomes of different kinds of programs and services.Summary: Violence in Families provides the most comprehensive review on the topic to date. It explores the scope and complexity of family violence, including identification of the multiple types of victims and offenders, who require different approaches to intervention. The book outlines new strategies for collaborations between researchers and practitioners that can improve the design and evaluation of prevention and treatment services for family violence.Summary: Violence in Families discusses issues that underlie all types of family violence, such as the tension between family support and the protection of children, risk factors that contribute to violent behavior in families, and the balance between punitive sanctions and individual support.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-357) and index.

Violence in Families takes the first hard look at the successes and failures of family violence interventions. It offers recommendations to guide services, programs, policy, and research on victim support and assistance, treatments and penalties for offenders, and law enforcement. Included is an analysis of 114 evaluation studies on the outcomes of different kinds of programs and services.

Violence in Families provides the most comprehensive review on the topic to date. It explores the scope and complexity of family violence, including identification of the multiple types of victims and offenders, who require different approaches to intervention. The book outlines new strategies for collaborations between researchers and practitioners that can improve the design and evaluation of prevention and treatment services for family violence.

Violence in Families discusses issues that underlie all types of family violence, such as the tension between family support and the protection of children, risk factors that contribute to violent behavior in families, and the balance between punitive sanctions and individual support.

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