A multidisciplinary team of experts examines violence from a
resilience perspective
Violence knows no boundaries. It attacks in schools, in families,
and even in the workforce-places that should be regarded as safe
havens. Encompassing the enormity of violence through a
comprehensive, biopsychosocial perspective, Handbook of Violence
examines community, school, family, and workplace violence,
including identification, classification, prevention, and interview
programs an...
A multidisciplinary team of experts examines violence from a
resilience perspective
Violence knows no boundaries. It attacks in schools, in families,
and even in the workforce-places that should be regarded as safe
havens. Encompassing the enormity of violence through a
comprehensive, biopsychosocial perspective, Handbook of Violence
examines community, school, family, and workplace violence,
including identification, classification, prevention, and interview
programs and case management.
Written by the leading authorities in their fields, this
groundbreaking compilation:
* Reviews how children and adolescents from violent homes are
detrimentally affected in multiple ways, including short- and
long-term consequences that seriously impair their psychological,
social, educational, and physical development
* Explores issues related to the occurrence of domestic violence in
African-American families, presenting an array of theoretical
formulations that may prove useful to practitioners who must
service both victims and perpetrators
* Examines the prevalence of female juvenile delinquency and
reviews the literature from a sociological and practice
perspective
* Focuses on the current trends and issues surrounding youth gang
violence, discussing identification, classification, and prediction
as they relate to gang violence as well as effective prevention and
intervention
* Addresses the identification, classification, and prediction of
school violence among middle-school and high-school youth
* Covers the broad range of cases that are classified as ‘workplace
violence, ‘ examining the differences in definition and analyzing
the bases for the growing prevalence of incidents
Topics include:
* Violence within families through the life span
* Adolescent dating violence
* Assessing violent behavior
* Domestic violence in Latino cultures
* Conduct disorder and substance abuse
* Youth gang violence
* School violence
* Preventing workplace violence
* Domestic violence in the workplace
* And much more
