Making an Impact - Children and Domestic Violence

Making an Impact - Children and Domestic Violence

A Reader

2nd edition

Marianne Hester, Chris Pearson and Nicola Harwin
With Hilary Abrahams

Paperback: £22.99 / $34.95 add to cart

2006, 246mm x 173mm / 10in x 7in, 288pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-157-4, BIC 2: JFFE3 JKSB1

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Praise for the first edition:

'…a valuable addition to the increasing literature on a persistent problem affecting everyone in the family. The authors have put together a resource for all those working with children and families… It offers much for those concerned to enhance inter-agency working and to find creative ways to safeguard women at risk and minimize the emotional damage caused to children witnessing domestic violence.'

Journal of Family Health Care

This fully updated Reader provides a comprehensive review of recent research and legislation relating to domestic violence and its consequences for children, and identifies the implications for practice.

It is divided into three parts. Part One describes evidence for the links between domestic violence and the concomitant abuse of children and assesses the effects on children's future well-being. Part Two is a comprehensive and accessible guide to relevant current criminal and civil legislation. Highlighting the success of multi-agency approaches, the final part details practical issues for interventions with children and their carers, male perpetrators, and, new to this edition, women.

Endorsed by children's charities including the NSPCC and Barnardo's, Making an Impact enables professionals working with children to develop informed, sophisticated and collaborative child care and protection responses for children who are experiencing domestic violence.

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