Responding to Family Violence: A Comprehensive, Research-Based Guide for Therapists

Responding to Family Violence provides mental health professionals with sound, research-based guidelines for conducting clinical work with clients impacted by various forms of family violence. It presents academic, scholarly, and statistical terms in an accessible and user-friendly way, with useful take-away points for practitioners such as clarifying contradictory findings, summarizing major research-based implications and guidelines for clinical practice related to each topic, and adressing the unique clinical challenges faced by mental health professionals. The book covers four key topics: intimate partner violence, childhood abuse, abuse of vulnerable populations, and family violence issues. Students in graduate-level mental health training programs will also find the presentation of information and exercises highly useful.