Peter Sturmey 
Violence in Families [PDF ebook] 
Integrating Research into Practice

This book examines the nature, prevention, and treatment of violence within families. It reviews the definition of contemporary families, emphasizing various structures, including nuclear families, reconstituted families, gay and lesbian families, and recent immigrant families. In addition, the volume describes the nature of and risk factors for family violence from the perspectives of both victims (e.g., infants, children, seniors) and perpetrators (e.g., adolescent family members, women). It identifies the implications and explores strategies for prevention, treatment, and services. In addition, the volume directly addresses practice and evidence-based interventions for individual perpetrators, family interventions, interventions for victims and systemwide interventions (e.g., those involving the courts, police, and national policy). Chapters review the best available quality evidence from randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, research syntheses, and evidence-based recommendations from expert panels and government agencies. Case studies illustrate the application of evidence-based practice to violence within the family to demonstrate the effectiveness of the intervention. 

Topics featured in this book include:

• Definition and conceptualization of family.


• Definition and measurement of as well as risk factors for family violence.


• Family violence in various traditional and nontraditional families.


• Prevention strategies as well as Individual and family treatments for perpetrators and victims of family violence.


• Social policy and legal interventions for family violence.

Violence in Families is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental psychology,  family studies, forensic psychology, criminology/criminal justice, public health, psychotherapy/counseling, psychiatry, social work, educational policy and politics, health psychology, nursing, and behavioral therapy/rehabilitation.

Table des matières

Part I.  Fundamental Issues.- Chapter 1. What is a Family? Issues in Defining Family.- Chapter 2. Definitions and Measurement of Family Violence and Aggression: Spotlight on Intimate Partner Violence.- Chapter 3. Gender Issues in Intimate Partner and Family Violence Research.- Chapter 4. Gay and Lesbian Families and Violence.- Chapter 5. Adolescent Perpetrators of Violence and Aggression towards Parents.- Chapter 6. Older Family Members: Victims and Perpetrators of Elder Abuse and Violence.- 
Part II. Prevention and Intervention  Chapter 7. Theories of Family Violence: Implications for Prevention and Treatment.- Chapter 8. Individual Prevention and Intervention for Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence and Those Who Have Caused Harm.- Chapter 9. Interventions to Prevent Violence in the Family.- Chapter 10. Police and Court Interventions for Family Violence: Evidence-Based Practices.- Chapter 11. Police and Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment: Searching for Evidence-Based Effective Responses.- Chapter 12. Police and court interventions for family violence.- Chapter 13. What About The Child? Bringing Children To The Fore In Australia’s National Domestic And Family Violence Agenda.- Chapter 14.  Family Violence in United States Military Families.- Chapter 15. Mindfulness and Family Aggression and Violence.- Chapter 16. Family Violence Professional Training Needs, Assessment and Intervention in Healthcare settings.- Chapter 17. Evolutionary psychology and family violence.- Chapter 18. Domestic Violence and Power Abuse Within The Family: The Restorative Justice Approach.- Chapter 19. National Policies on Family Violence and Older People: How is elder abuse represented in policy?

A propos de l’auteur

Peter Sturmey is professor of psychology and The Graduate Center and the Department of Psychology, City University of New York. He specializes in applied behavior analysis in neurodevelopmental disorders, behavioral approaches to clinical psychology, and violence and aggression. His research has focused on staff and parent training. He has published over 30 authored and edited volumes, over 200 journal articles, over 80 book chapters and is the series editor for Springer’s
Advances in Prevention and Treatment of Violence and Aggression.