Preventing Family Violence

Some families are dangerous environments. Most practitioners in social work, child protection, and hospital and community medicine, as well as the police, will know from their professional experience the extent of spouse abuse, child abuse, sibling violence and maltreatment of the elderly within the family setting. Understanding family violence is the first step towards prevention. This book deals with the nature and causes of abuse within the family, with its prediction and assessment, and with methods for intervention and prevention. Reflecting the research evidence of cycles of violence and maltreatment, the book is organized as a progressive analysis of abuse of spouses, children, siblings, parents and family elders. The authors are both well known for their academic and professional work with families, and have written this book for professionals requiring a research- and evidence-based (rather than anecdotal) guide to the problems of family violence and to the best practice in related intervention work with families and couples. This book is published in the Wiley Series in Family Psychology edited by Neil Frude, University of Wales, Cardiff.

Kevin D. Browne is the author of Preventing Family Violence.

Martin Herbert is Professor Emeritus at Exeter University. He was previously a lecturer and clinician at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. This was followed by the post of Director of the School of Social Work and Professor and Head of the School of Psychology and clinical training at Leicester University. He later joined the National Health Service full time and was in charge of the Mental Health Service for children in Plymouth. This post was succeeded by a move to Exeter, where he founded and directed the Doctoral Course in Clinical Psychology as Professor of Clinical and Community Psychology. He was appointed to the Consultant Clinical Psychology post in the Child and Adolescent Department at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Health Care Trust. For several years he was a Mental Health Act Commissioner. He now specialises in personal injury psycho-legal work and the evaluation of parent training courses, one of which - the Child Wise Behaviour Management Programme - he codesigned for use in Sure Start and NHS settings. He has published books and journal articles on the psychological problems of children, adolescents and adults.

List of figures

ix

List of tables

xi

About the Authors

xiii

Foreword

xv

David Finkelhor

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgements

xix

Introduction What is family violence?

1

(7)

Forms of family violence and levels of prevention

8

(15)

Causes of family violence

23

(18)

Coercive family relationships

41

(19)

Predicting spouse maltreatment

60

(25)

Preventing spouse maltreatment

85

(26)

Predicting and preventing child maltreatment

111

(35)

Treating parents who abuse and neglect their children

146

(33)

Predicting sibling abuse

179

(16)

Predicting and preventing parent abuse

195

(29)

Predicting and preventing elder maltreatment

224

(22)

Preventing the cycle of violence

246

(25)

Working with violent families

271

(23)

Conclusion The cost of domestic violence

294

(12)

References

306

(60)

Author Index

366

(10)

Subject Index

376

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Preventing Family Violence

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