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Should Exposure to Domestic Violence Be Defined as Child Maltreatment: Issues for Policy and Practice (Pre-Conference Seminar I)
Should Exposure to Domestic Violence Be Defined as Child
Maltreatment: Issues for Policy and Practice
(Pre-Conference Seminar I)
Presenters review the effects of children's exposure to domestic violence, building on national research and the clinical findings of the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, one of the first programs in the country to work exclusively with child bystanders to violence. In addition to identifying current State laws and policies regarding child exposure to domestic violence together with the policy and practice standards of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, the session considers the perspective of battered women in regard to child protection issues, as well as the protection of battered women. A case study illustrates a framework for assessing risk to the child and ways child protection services can be involved in a manner supportive to women victims of domestic violence.
Betsy McAlister Groves, M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W.
Boston Medical Center
Child Witness to Violence Project
1 BMC Place
Maternity 5, Developmental Pediatrics
Boston, MA 02118
Isa Woldeguiorguis
Domestic Violence Unit
Massachusetts Department of Social Services
24 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA 02110
Janet Fender
Domestic Violence Unit
Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance
600 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111
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