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Resources - Children Exposed to Violence
The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics.
This book shows how partner abuse affects each relationship in a family and explains how children’s emotional recovery is linked to the healing and empowerment of their mothers. Bancroft, L. & Silverman, J. (2002). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Current Issues in Research, Intervention, Prevention, and Policy Development. This book provides an excellent compilation of research and policy issues, and explores promising practices in helping children exposed to domestic violence, and their mothers or non-offending parents. Geffner, R., Jaffe, P. & Sudermann, M. (Eds.). (2000). New York: Haworth Press.
Children in a Violent Society. This classic provides an overview of the incidence, scope, and impact of violence on children and youth in our society, as well as model programs and promising practices for early intervention with children and families. Osofsky, J (Ed.). (1997). New York: Guilford Press.
Children Who See Too Much: Lessons from the Child Witness to Violence Project. In this book, the author demonstrates how children understand, respond to, and are affected by violence, and that trauma created by family members can cause the most psychological harm to very young children. McAlister Groves, B. (2002). Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Complex Trauma in Children and Adolescents. This paper explores the immediate and long-term consequences of a child’s exposure to multiple traumatic experiences (as opposed to a single event), losses, and lack of consistent nurturance and responsive caregiving in early childhood. It posits the notion that repeated exposure to violence, chaos, and neglect in one’s caregiving environment may impact a child’s development across many domains of functioning, including emotional regulation, self-esteem, and cognition, and provides a framework for intervention. Cook, A., Blaustein, M., Spinnazola, J., & van der Kolk. B. (2003). White Paper from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Don’t Hit My Mommy! A Manual for Child-Parent Psychotherapy with Young Witnesses of Family Violence. This clinical handbook offers treatment guidelines to address the behavioral and mental health problems of infants and young children whose most intimate relationships are disrupted by the experience of violence. This approach recognizes the importance of the attachment relationship between the young child and her mother or primary caregiver, and helps clinicians find ways to strengthen and repair the relationship for safety, recovery from trauma, and healthy growth. Lieberman, A. & Van Horn, P. (2005). Washington, DC: Zero to Three Press.
Ending the Cycle of Violence: Community Responses to Children of Battered Women. This volume provides an overview of current practice, including strategies and program models, in working with children of battered women in both domestic violence shelter and community settings, and their mothers. Peled, E., Jaffe, P. & Edleson, J. (Eds.) (1995). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Ordinary Magic: Resilience Processes in Development. Based on research studies about children growing up with the threat of disadvantage and adversity, Masten overturns the popular conception that some children have the “right stuff” and shows how resilience is part of ordinary adaptive processes inherent in all of us – when opportunities exist to connect to competent and caring adults in the family and community. Masten, A. S. (2001). American Psychologist, Vol. 56, No. 3, 227-238.
Problems Associated with Children’s Witnessing of Domestic Violence. This article provides a literature review on research pertaining to the long-term impact of children’s exposure to domestic violence and moderating factors in a child’s life that increase or decrease the impact. Edleson, J. (revised 1999). Applied Research Forum, National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women.
Young Children and Trauma: Intervention and Treatment. This book reviews the impact of trauma on infants and young children, detailing the effects on neurobiology, behavior, relationships, and overall functioning, and brings together assessment and treatment approaches that are applicable in work with older children, too. Osofsky, J. (Ed.). (2004). New York: Guilford Press.
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