Making an Impact: Children and Domestic Violence - A Reader
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Overview
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. Part One describes evidence for the links between domestic violence and the concomitant abuse of children and assesses the effects on children's future wellbeing. Part Two is a comprehensive guide to relevant current criminal and civil legislation. Highlighting the successs of multi-agency approaches, Part Three 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.About the Author:
Marianne Hester is Professor of Gender, Violence and International Policy in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
About the Author:
Chris Pearson is Co-ordinator of Exeter Women's Aid
About the Author:
Nicola Harwin is the Chief Executive of the Women's Aid Federation of England
Synopsis
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. Part One describes evidence for the links between domestic violence and the concomitant abuse of children and assesses the effects on children's future wellbeing. Part Two is a comprehensive guide to relevant current criminal and civil legislation. Highlighting the successs of multi-agency approaches, Part Three 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.
About the Author:
Marianne Hester is Professor of Gender, Violence and International Policy in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
About the Author:
Chris Pearson is Co-ordinator of Exeter Women's Aid
About the Author:
Nicola Harwin is the Chief Executive of the Women's Aid Federation of England