Treating Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Group-Based Intervention

Assessment and intervention for young children exposed to domestic violence

Emerging Responses to Children Exposed to Domestic Violence

VAWnet is a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. “Communities across North America are significantly revising the way they think about children exposed to domestic violence. At local, county and state levels, communities are engaged in a variety of policy and programmatic actions to respond to these children and their families... We need to continue to develop multiple ...

The legal system's response to children exposed to domestic violence.

Historically, the legal system has not responded adequately, if at all, to cases involving domestic violence. In the past two decades, U.S. courts and law enforcement agencies have increasingly acknowledged the seriousness of domestic violence and have developed responses to it. Unfortunately, the legal system has been slower to recognize the impact of domestic violence on children. This articl...

Health care system responses to children exposed to domestic violence.

The health care system has only recently adopted protocols and training to enable practitioners to identify and respond to victims of domestic violence. Currently, most hospitals have domestic violence protocols in place, although training in the use of protocols is less routine. However, because the provision of health care focuses on the treatment of the individual, the well-being of the chil...

Animal cruelty by children exposed to domestic violence.

OBJECTIVE The first objective of this study was to determine if children exposed to domestic violence were significantly more likely to be cruel to animals than children not exposed to violence. The second was to determine if there were significant age and gender differences between children who were and were not cruel to animals. METHOD A community sample of 47 mothers with two children and ...