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Child Welfare & Domestic Violence: Casework Practice With Children & Families
Resources and information about direct practice with children and families experiencing domestic violence and child abuse or neglect.
Assessment and Intervention With Parents to Stabilize Children Who Have Witnessed Violence
Ziegler & Weidner
Journal of Family Violence, 21(2), 2006
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Describes how to assess parents' ability to enhance the child's sense of security and empathic connection, and involve the parents in treatment and recovery for the child and family.
Domestic Violence and Child Welfare Practice
Social Work Program, Wisconsin University at Green Bay (2000)
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Describes an interdisciplinary training curriculum for professionals that addresses practice issues such as how domestic violence affects children, the importance of collaboration in cases involving children, and the need for specialized case management skills for intake, assessment, and safety planning.
Family Team Conferences in Domestic Violence Cases: Guidelines for Practice (PDF - 396 KB)
Child Welfare Policy and Practice Group & Family Violence Prevention Fund (2003, 2nd ed.)
Lays out steps to decide whether a family with a history of co-occurring domestic violence and child maltreatment is a good candidate for a family team conference and to prepare and conduct a conference that will result in the best possible child welfare decisions and safety for all.
Guidelines for Conducting Family Team Conferences: When There Is a History of Domestic Violence
Carrillo & Carter (2001)
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Explains practices that address the needs of all family members involved in the group conference, offers help in assessing the family for domestic violence and for determining whether a conference would be safe, and describes a safety plan and preparations for the conference to ensure the safety of all parties.
Guidelines for Public Child Welfare Agencies Serving Children and Families Experiencing Domestic Violence
National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators, American Public Human Services Association (2001)
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Includes recommendations and lists of model protocols and practice guidelines, training curricula, and national organizations and resource centers that can help agencies improve response to families affected by spouse abuse and child maltreatment.
Handbook of Domestic Violence Intervention Strategies: Policies, Programs, and Legal Remedies
Roberts (Ed.) (2002)
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Guidance and resources for assisting battered women, information on the assessment and treatment of children exposed to domestic violence, and a model for crisis intervention with battered women and their children.
National Resource Center for Child Protective Services
Develops and integrates policies and practices that improve the prevention, reporting, assessment, and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
Silent Realities: Supporting Young Children and Their Families Who Experience Violence
Walthall (2003)
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Describes the effects of trauma on young children and suggests strategies for helping victims and witnesses of community and domestic violence to heal.
Strategies for Handling Cases Where Children Witness Domestic Violence
Turkel & Shaw
American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI) Update, 16(2), 2003
Discusses elements that should be included in service and safety plans, such as counseling for battered women and their children, long-term shelter to independence programs, job training, parenting classes, life skills and long-term transition services, and court-mandated batterer intervention programs.
Strategies to Improve Supervised Visitation Services in Domestic Violence Cases
Maxwell & Oehme (2001)
Describes the evolution of services, notes legal trends in these cases, describes practice concerns, and presents strategies to improve the safety of participants when supervised visitation is court-ordered due to domestic violence.
Substance Abuse and Domestic Violence in the Child Welfare Context: Where Do You Start?
American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice, 21(7), 2002
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Provides an overview of substance abuse issues for parents affected by domestic violence and outlines recommendations for treating battered women and their abusers to achieve goals for family preservation.
Theoretical Framework for Thinking About Batterers and Child Protection
Non-Violence Alliance (2006)
Poses a series of questions to reconsider and reconceptualize the current thinking and practices in child welfare when working with batterers who are both a caretaker of the children and the person exposing them to violence and abuse.
When a Parent Is a Batterer: Understanding and Working With Abusive Fathers
Goodmark
ABA Child Law Practice, 22(8), 2003
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Provides an overview for lawyers, judges, and child welfare professionals of the parental role of men who batter and their impact on the dynamics and relationships within families, and profiles programs that work with violent men to improve their parenting skills.
Young Children Exposed to Adult Domestic Violence: Incidence, Assessment, and Intervention
Rossman, Rea, Graham-Bermann, & Butterfield (2004)
In Protecting Children From Domestic Violence: Strategies for Community Intervention
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Reviews strategies for children ages 0 to 3 years and 4 to 6 years who are exposed to domestic violence, many of whom also experience symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and behavior problems that interfere in their development; includes promising treatment models.
Young Children Living With Domestic Violence: The Role of Early Childhood Programs (PDF - 866 KB)
Cohen & Knitzer (2004)
Provides practical information and resources for staff working directly with children and families, and highlights the role that program administrators and the early childhood community can play in supporting staff and strengthening community and State partnerships and policies on behalf of children affected by domestic violence.
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