Table of Contents

I. General Issues.- 1 Family Violence: A Clinical Overview.- 2 Social and Ecological Issues in Violence toward Children.- 3 The Ecology of Domestic Aggression toward Adult Victims.- 4 Legal Issues in Violence toward Children.- 5 Legal Issues in Violence toward Adults.- 6 Medical Issues with Child Victims of Family Violence.- 7 Medical Issues with Adult Victims of Family Violence.- II. Violence Toward Children.- 8 Child Physical Abuse.- 9 Child Neglect.- 10 Child Sexual Abuse.- 11 Incest.- 12 Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities.- 13 The Child Witness of Family Violence.- 14 Psychological and Emotional Abuse of Children.- III. Violence Toward Adults.- 15 Wife Battering.- 16 Psychological Maltreatment of Partners.- 17 Marital Rape.- 18 Intimate Partner Homicide.

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From reviews of the First Edition:
`[Elucidates] the complex and multidisciplinary clinical issues encountered in treating family violence through the investigation of individual case examples of the different forms of family violence.'
Adolescence
`Ammerman and Hersen address the expanse of types of family violence. ... [O]ne of the few books that can be used by a wide range of readers including lawyers, physicians, mental health professionals, and educators...[and o]f great value to team efforts to prevent, identify, and treat family violence.... The chapters taken together form a powerful picture of the pervasiveness of domestic mistreatment today...'
Contemporary Psychology