Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment

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• Mental Health Services for Children Who Witness Domestic Violence
  Author: Betsy McAlister Groves
  Description: This article discusses the effects of exposure to domestic violence, identification and assessment, and mental health interventions.
  Date Added: 04/25/2007

• A Blueprint for Responding to Children Exposed to Domestic Violence in Pediatric Health Care
  Author: Institute for Safe Families
  Description: The purpose of this document is to provide training for health care providers when working with and screening for children exposed to domestic violence. A list of recommendations is included.
  Date Added: 05/11/2007

• Adult Domestic Violence in Cases of International Parental Child Abduction
  Author: Sudha Shetty and Jeffrey L. Edleson
  Description: This article discusses the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and its impact on battered mothers and their children seeking safety in the United States.We discuss relevant articles of the convention, the extent to which adult domestic violence is present in cases of international parental abduction, and cases in which battered mothers have contested the forced return of their children to an abusive partner.We conclude with recommended steps needed in research, training, and legislation that may increase the likelihood of safe outcomes for battered mothers and their children.
  Date Added: 12/15/2004

• Adult Domestic Violence in Cases of International Parental Child Abduction
  Author: Sudha Shetty & Jeffrey Edleson
  Description: "This article discusses the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and its impact on battered mothers and their children seeking safety in the United States."
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Behind Closed Doors: The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children
  Author: UNICEF
  Description: This document is a collection of information about the extent of child exposure, the key finding of the research in this field, and recommendations for policymakers.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Bonding and Attachment in Maltreated Children: Consequences of Emotional Neglect in Childhood
  Author: Bruce D. Perry
  Description: This article is designed for parents, teachers and working professionals interested in learning about attachment and how it is affected by emotional absences in early development.
  Date Added: 04/06/2007

• Child Abuse and Domestic Violence
  Author: Family Violence Prevention Fund
  Description: Discussion of the study, "Relation Between Childhood Sexual and Physical Abuse and Risk of Revictimisation in Women: A Cross-Sectional Survey", that shows women who are physically and/or sexually abused in childhood are at risk of being victims of abuse as adults.
  Date Added: 10/23/2001

• Child Abuse and Domestic Violence: Creating Community Partnerships for Safe Families - Suggested Components of an Effective Child Welfare Response to Domestic Violence
  Author: Janet Carter and Susan Schechter
  Description: November 1997. This paper is meant to serve as a working document rather than the "last word," and it will be subject to revision as child welfare and domestic violence agencies on the vanguard of creating partnerships learn more about the link between child abuse and domestic violence, and how to best protect both children and their abused mothers. While the suggested practices and policies are by no means exhaustive, it is hoped that setting them out will save agencies from having to "reinvent the wheel," and will, at the same time, motivate them to add additional "spokes."
  Date Added: 03/09/1999

• Child Custody and Visitation Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases: Legal Trends, Research Findings, and Recommendations
  Author: Daniel G Saunders
  Description: Changes in the legal system over custody decisions involving child exposure to domestic violence are analyzed on the basis of the research literature. Recommendations for custody are made.
  Date Added: 05/02/2007

• Child Welfare: Health & Human Services
  Author: Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence
  Description: This website provides a number of documents and related resources, particlarly for child welfare workers. Training resources and interventions are provided as well.
  Date Added: 05/02/2007

• Child Witnesses to Domestic Violence - Common Questions
  Author: The Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
  Description: Frequently Asked Questions about child witnessing of domestic violence are answered along with information about how children are impacted, the long-term effects, and how to help.
  Date Added: 05/11/2007

• Children and Domestic Violence
  Author: Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System
  Description: A variety of resources are provided for professionals and for any person interested in learning more about children and domestic violence, including books and training materials.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Children and Domestic Violence
  Author: Steve Cohen
  Description: This document is based on a presentation done by Steve Cohen. It reviews the impact of exposure to domestic violence on children, the scope of the problem, and a variety of resources are also provided.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Children and Domestic Violence: A Few Facts...
  Author: Domestic Violence Intervention Center
  Description: The impact that child exposure to domestic violence can have children and their later development is discussed. PTSD is reviewed, as well as ways to help exposed children.
  Date Added: 05/11/2007

• Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
  Author: Rhode Island Kids Count
  Description: In this brief, an outline is provided that details the domestic violence problem, how it effects children by age and gender, the connection between DV and child abuse, and Rhode Islands specific efforts to combat the problem.
  Date Added: 05/04/2007

• Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: "Silent Witnesses"
  Description: This document offers statistics and also discusses the impact of child exposure to domestic violence as children progress in age.
  Date Added: 04/25/2007

• Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence: Research Findings and Implications for Intervention
  Author: Bonnie E. Carlson
  Description: Prevalence rates are discussed in addition to moderating factors for childrens' responses to domestic violence. Group and individual interventions are reviewed in the context of witnessing DV.
  Date Added: 05/11/2007

• Children Who Witness Domestic Violence: The Invisible Victims
  Author: Joy D. Osofsky
  Description: A review of the effects of exposure to both domestic violence and community violence is the focus of this work, and the author discusses what is learned by children who witness such violence. Further directions for research are also included.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Children's Domestic Violence Assessment Tool
  Description: "The purpose of this tool is to help assess safety, risk, strengths and needs. It may be used to assist in decision making and service planning during any stage of the CPS case (assessment through case planning and case management) in conjunction with required Structured Decision Making Tools. The tool is designed for use with the child(ren) in CPS cases involving domestic violence."
  Date Added: 05/11/2007

• Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence: Striving Toward an Ecological Framework for Interventions
  Author: Cliff McKinney, Karin Sieger, Allison Kanter Agliata, Kimberly Renk
  Description: The authors discuss the implications for childhood exposure to domestic violence and reviews a myriad of interventions that have been shown to counteract some of the consequences.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Children's Exposure to Violence
  Author: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
  Description: This website provides access to research articles about a variety of topics related to child exposure to domestic violence. Articles can be searched for by topic.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Children, Young People and Domestic Violence
  Author: Lesley Laing
  Description: The author explores "the ways in which children and young people experience domestic violence," as well as the impact it has on child development and the response by professionals and the child protection system is also reviewed.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Deciding Child Custody When There is Domestic Violence: A Benchbook for Pennsylvania Courts (2005)
  Author: Women's Law Project
  Description: A variety of links to documents and articles related to childhood exposure to domestic violence are provided on this website, as well as information pertaining to custody issues and the laws regarding child exposure.
  Date Added: 05/11/2007

• Domestic Violence and Child Welfare Services
  Author: North Carolina Division of Social Services & The Family and Children's Resource Program
  Description: Statistics and links to helpful resources and information related to child welfare and domestic violence are provided in this document.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Domestic Violence and Children
  Author: Gail Horner
  Description: The author discusses the consequences of domestic violence on children and empahsized the role that primary care providers play in forestalling child maltreatment and the negative impacts.
  Date Added: 05/25/2007

• Domestic Violence and Children: A Children's Health Fund Report
  Author: The Children's Health Fund
  Description: The author discusses domestic violence as a pediatric issue and as a valuable source for intervention.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Domestic Violence and Welfare Policy: Research Findings That Can Inform Policies on Marriage and Child Well-Being
  Author: Sharmila Lawrence
  Description: The author looks at domestic violence among women on welfare, the impact on children who are exposed to violence in the home, and methods to increase the stability of marriages.
  Date Added: 05/02/2007

• Domestic Violence as a Form of Child Abuse: Identification and Prevention
  Author: Marianne James
  Description: By looking at the ways child exposure to domestic violence manifests itself during the various stages of a child's life, the author documents ways to identify problems in exposed children and discusses specific intervention strategies.
  Date Added: 05/02/2007

• Domestic Violence is associated with environmental suppression of IQ in young children
  Author: Karestan C. Koenen, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalon Caspi, Alan Taylor, & Shaun Purcell
  Description: The researchers document the consequences of early childhood stress, such as exposure to domestic violence, on brain development, which subsequently can lead to a lower IQ.
  Date Added: 05/11/2007

• Domestic Violence Reading List
  Author: National Child Traumatic Stress Network
  Description: "This reading list was compiled by experts in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. It includes important recent work as well as classic books and articles on domestic violence by Network and other experts in the field."
  Date Added: 05/02/2007

• Domestic Violence Services
  Author: Child Welfare Information Gateway
  Description: Being knowledgeable about domestic violence services available to families, particularly children who have been exposed to violence in the home, has become increasingly important. This document offers an array of links, information, and resources related to such services.
  Date Added: 05/04/2007

• Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, and Youth Violence: Strategies for Prevention and Early Intervention
  Author: Janet Carter
  Description: Another Family Violence Prevention Fund publication that argues for a collaborative, community-based approach to combatting child abuse, domestic violence and youth violence.
  Date Added: 03/09/1999

• Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment Cases (Executive Summary)
  Author: Susan Schechter and Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D.
  Description: This is an executive summary of the document "Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policies and Practice." The aim of this document is to offer a more comprehensive set of responses to eliminate or decrease the enormous risks that individual battered mothers, caseworkers, and judges must take on behalf of children.
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  Date Added: 10/26/2005

• Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy & Practice
  Author: Louis W. McHardy, Meredith Hofford, Susan Schechter, & Jeffrey Edleson
  Description: This 133 page publication addresses a number of issues relevant to family violence within the home and the community and specifically focuses on interventions.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Effects of Domestic Violence on Children and Adolescents: An Overview
  Author: Joseph S. Volpe, Ph.D., B.C.E.T.S.
  Description: The article examines the prevalence and domestic violence as a cause of traumatic stress in children.
  Date Added: 07/12/2004

• Effects of Domestic Violence on Women: FAQs
  Author: Womancare
  Description: Commonly asked questions along with extensive and valuable answers are included in this document. A Safety Plan and a Children's Bill of Rights are provided as well.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Emerging Strategies in the Prevention of Domestic Violence
  Author: David A. Wolfe and Peter G. Jaffe
  Description: This article reviews the problems with interventions implemented after abuse has already occurred and focuses on the need for the development of empirically based primary interventions
  Date Added: 04/25/2007

• Family Violence: Open Directory Project
  Description: This page is a comprehensive list of links to various organizations and websites that provide information and resources about children and domestic violence.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Formacion de Vinculos y e Desarrollo de Apego en Ninos Maltratados: Condecuencias de la Negligencia Emocional en la Ninez
  Author: Bruce D. Perry
  Description: Spanish translation of article - "Bonding and Attachment in Maltreated Chidren: Consequences of Emotional Neglect in Childhood"
  Date Added: 04/06/2007

• Get the Facts - Domestic Violence and Children
  Author: Family Violence Prevention Fund
  Description: Statistics and numbers are provided to give an idea of trends in the United States related to children and exposure to domestic violence.
  Date Added: 05/02/2007

• Guidelines for Responding to the Co-occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Domestic Violence
  Author: Minnesota Department of Human Services
  Description: The purpose of these Guidelines is to provide direction to child protection staff when responding to situations in which child maltreatment and domestic violence are both occurring.
  Date Added: 04/22/2002

• Helping Children Affected by Domestic Violence
  Author: Human Services Policy Center
  Description: This is a comprehensive document about children who have been exposed to domestic violence and is supplemented with specific interventions that have shown to help palliate the impact.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Helping Traumatized Children: A Brief Overview for Caregivers
  Author: Bruce D. Perry
  Description: This article, designed largely with a child's caregiver in mind, addresses how to talk to children who have experienced trauma and what these experiences may have been like.
  Date Added: 04/06/2007

• Learning to Listen, Learning to Help: Understanding Woman Abuse and Its Effects on Children
  Author: Linda Baker & Alison Cunningham
  Description: A concise handbook for students and volunteers entering the helping professions, to prepare them to recognize and respond to families in which there is or was violence at home. Topics include background material on the dynamics of woman abuse, the concept of power and control, facts and figures, how to support women and help them find appropriate resources, how children are affected by violence, how children cope with violence at home, how to respond to child disclosure of abuse and neglect, standards of professional conduct, taking stock of your own attitudes, and suggestions for how you can make a difference to end violence.
  Date Added: 03/17/2005

• Little eyes, little ears: How violence against a mother shapes children as they grow
  Author: Alison Cunningham & Linda Baker
  Description: This comprehensive 44 page document is divided by topics that cover facts and figures, types of abuse against women and children, ways a child can be impacted by domestic violence, myths about women and abuse, copin strategies, and responding and reporting, among others.
  Date Added: 06/06/2007

• Mothers and Children: Understanding the Links Between Woman Battering and Child Abuse
  Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D.
  Description: This is a briefing paper for a strategic planning meeting on the Violence Against Women Act. "This paper focuses on an important gap in our current understandings of family violence: the link between woman battering and child abuse. It is surprising that after so many years of public attention it is only in recent years that a discussion of this link has begun to appear in the literature. At present, there is much more we need to know about the overlap between woman and child abuse."
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  Date Added: 05/20/2000

• National Center for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Domestic Violence
  Author: National Center for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
  Description: A review of relevant websites, statistics, and current literature is provided in this document.
  Date Added: 04/25/2007

• National Center for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: General Statistics
  Author: National Center for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
  Description: This document provides general statistics relating to children's witnessing of domestic violence. Estimates and prevalences are provided based on demographic variables.
  Date Added: 04/25/2007

• Prevalence of Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence: Implications for Prevention and Intervention
  Author: Joy D. Osofsky
  Description: A discussion surrounding the problems with defining domestic violence and the difficulty in determining prevlance rates as a result constitutes the bulk of this document. The implications of this problem are also looked at.
  Date Added: 05/02/2007

• Prosecutors, Kids, and Domestic Violence Cases
  Author: Debra Whitcomb
  Description: "This article describes some of the issues prosecutors should be aware of when they handle domestic violence cases involving children, especially in light of recent legislation aiming to protect children."
  Date Added: 05/02/2007

• Protecting Children from Exposure to Domestic Violence: The Use and Abuse of Child Maltreatment Statutes
  Author: Lois A. Weithorn, J.D., Ph.D.
  Description: This 145 page article is a comprehensive review and critical discussion about the laws and child protection responses that have shown to be effective.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Research and Practice in Child Interviewing: Implications for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
  Author: Kathleen Coulborn Faller
  Description: "This article argues that methods employed in interviewing children about child maltreatment can be applied to interviewing children about exposure to domestic violence. The article describes how cognitive interviewing, narrative elaboration, and event segmentation can be employed when talking to children about domestic violence. In addition, the article discusses how focused questions related to child maltreatment and child endangerment can be used to elicit information from children about domestic violence."
  Date Added: 05/04/2007

• Responding to Child Maltreatment and Domestic Violence
  Author: Child Welfare Information Gateway
  Description: This article discusses the ongoing debate between child protection workers and domestic abuse advocates. It also outlines the similarities between the two groups as they work towards similar goals.
  Date Added: 05/02/2007

• Responding to Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Research Informing Practice and Policy
  Author: Catherine Koverola and Astrid Heger
  Description: This article discusses the political and practical ramifications of disparate disciplines, theories, and movements on the response to children exposed to domestic violence.
  Date Added: 04/25/2007

• Responding to the Co-occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Adult Domestic Violence in Hennepin County
  Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D. Sandra K. Beeman, Ph.D.M, University of Minnesota
  Description: In this report, Drs. Edleson and Beeman and their research assistants detail information collected from a variety of sources during the first half of 1999. Information collection included detailed reporting by child protection screeners and investigators in the Hennepin County Department of Children and Family Services (HCDCFS), consulting with national experts in this area, reviewing published materials on prominent demonstration projects from around the United States and Canada, and holding a series of stakeholder meetings throughout Hennepin County.
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  Date Added: 10/26/2005

• Safe from the Start: Reducing Children's Exposure to Violence
  Author: California Attorney General's Office: Crime and Violence Prevention Center
  Description: This is a very comprehensive review of promising strategies and programs. It serves as a resource guide and includes evaluation tools and funding resources information.
  Date Added: 05/11/2007

• Supervised Visitation: Information for Mothers Who Have Been Abused
  Author: Family Violence Prevention Fund
  Description: "This Guide should be given directly to mothers who have experienced abuse and whose children are in supervised visitation programs. It will tell mothers basic information about how supervised visitation programs work and how she can prepare herself and her children for the experience. If she is afraid of her children’s father or was abused by him, then the information in this Guide will be particularly helpful to her."
  Date Added: 07/25/2007

• Tackling Domestic Violence: Providing Support for Children Who Have Witnessed Domestic Violence
  Author: Audrey Mullender
  Description: "This report provides good practice recommendations and suggestions for a range of practitioners and professionals who have a role in commissioning, developing, or delivering initiatives to support children who have in the past or are currently witenssing domestic violence."
  Date Added: 05/04/2007

• Teachers' Resource: Child Abuse and Domestic Violence
  Description: Guidelines, particularly for teachers, are provided to help professionals respond to children who have been exposed to domestic violence and abuse. Mini-stories are included and are followed by suggestions as to how one should respond.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• The Canadian Child Welfare Response to Cases of Exposure to Domestic Violence: Analysis of the 2003 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (Cis-2003)
  Author: Tara Black, Nico Trocme, Barbara Fallon, and Bruce MacLaurin
  Description: This document displays the results of a comparative overview of the child welfare response within Canadian boundaries to child exposure to domestic violence. Implications for policy are discussed.
  Date Added: 05/02/2007

• The Child's Loss: Death, Grief and Mourning - How Caregivers Can Help Children Exposed to Traumatic Death
  Author: Bruce D. Perry and Jana Rubenstein
  Description: This article addresses the ins and outs of talking openly with children about the grief and loss they experience as a result of exposure to a traumatic death. FAQs about how and when to talk with children are addressed as is a discussion of what these experiences may mean to the children who have been exposed to violent trauma.
  Date Added: 04/06/2007

• The Domestic Violence & Mental Health Policy Initiative
  Description: The Domestic Violence & Mental Health Policy Initiative is a current project that is being undertaken in order to "provide the infrastructure and resources to enable domestic violence and mental health agencies and training programs nationwide to be able to work more effectively with individuals who are dealing with both domestic violence and mental health issues."
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children: Resources for Children
  Author: Kent County Divorce Court
  Description: Ways to keep children safe, ways exposed children can cope, and statistics are provided in this document.
  Date Added: 05/11/2007

• The Facts on Children and Domestic Violence
  Author: Family Violence Prevention Fund
  Description: Outlined in this document is a list of statistics related to domestic violence and its impact on children and pregnancy.
  Date Added: 04/25/2007

• The Impact of Domestic Violence on Urban Preschool Children: Battered Mother's Perspectives
  Author: Ellen R. Devoe & Erica L. Smith
  Description: "This article explores urban battered mothers' perceptions of their preschool children's exposure to domestic violence. It also examines mothers' reports about their young children's functioning and traumatic stress symptoms and the connections women make between their own experiences of victimization by partners and their children's difficulties."
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• The Overlap Between Child Maltreatment and Woman Abuse
  Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D.
  Description: Reviews over 35 studies on the overlap between child maltreatment and woman battering in the same families. This paper has now been published in Violence Against Women, 1999, 5(2), pp. 134-154 and is no longer available on this site. This link, however, goes to a brief VAWnet paper on the topic.
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  Date Added: 05/06/1997

• Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children
  Author: John Briere, Ph.D.
  Description: This measurement tool was published in 1996, after several years of research. It is a self-reporting tool geared toward children ages 8 to 16. There are fifty items, with several sub-scales including anxiety, depression, anger, PTSD, dissociation, and sexual concerns. The TSCC was designed to address traumatic events in general, meaning that it does not specifically address domestic violence. Nonetheless this checklist can be to gauge the impact domestic violence may have on a child. The actual questionnaire is copyrighted, but you may access it by contacting the publisher, Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc. at P.O. Box 998, Odessa, FL 33556. Telephone number: (800) 331-TEST.
  Date Added: 07/12/2004

• Violence Against Women Document Library
  Author: Violence Against Women Online Resources
  Description: A huge variety of information and resources are categorized by topics relating to children and domestic violence, including information about advocacy, child custody and protection, and criminal justice responses.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Vision for services for children and young people affected by domestic violence
  Author: LGA, ADSS, Women's Aid, and CAFCASS
  Description: "This draft publication offers a pathway for services for children experiencing domestic violence which connects the two."
  Date Added: 05/11/2007

• Witnessing Domestic Violence: The Effect on Children
  Author: Melissa M. Stiles, M.D.
  Description: The author discusses the conequences of child exposure to domestic violence across various ages, as well as prevention and screening techniques. Community advocacy is emphasized.
  Date Added: 05/11/2007

• Witnessing Violence Fact Sheet
  Author: Joanne Davis, Ph.D. & Ernestine Briggs, Ph.D
  Description: The authors discuss the types of violence that children witness, prevlance rates, correlates, and future directions for research.
  Date Added: 05/11/2007

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