This issue addresses a theme that never goes away: Women and Violence. A wide range of topics relating to this sensitive subject are covered in a discussion of the destructive impact of violence on women's lives.
Topics include doctors' experiences with abused women; women's experiences with lawyers and the Domestic Vio... read more

Focuses on emotional healing, behaviour control and practical change for men who get seriously angry. From an accredited social worker, practising pyschotherapist and a counsellor with over twenty years' clinical experience. Extensive media coverage.

Research and clinical expertise are brought together in this practical volume to examine whether the following violences can be predicted: battered women being killed by their partners; battered women killing their partners; children being physically and//or sexually abused; and sexual offenders and batterers re-offending. Fo... read more

Based on five years of investigative reporting and research into forensic psychology and criminology, Erased presents an original profile of a widespread and previously unrecognized type of murder: not a 'hot-blooded', spur-of-the-moment crime of passion, as domestic homicide is commonly viewed, but a cold-blooded, carefully ... read more

Seeks to provide practical ideas for practitioners who are responding to people's experiences of violence. Complex issues are considered such as: the question of forgiveness; ways of acknowledging and responding to women's outrage; the experience of men who have been subjected to child sexual abuse; and matters of culture and sexuality.

A unique approach to male anger management using mindfulness, compassion, and self-awareness exercises to help men understand and deal with angry feelings that can damage their careers and relationships. More Than Anger Management-A Way to a Better Life If anger is harming your health and hurting the people you love and ca... read more

It's been reported that around seven per cent of adults may suffer from a problem called intermittent explosive disorder (IED) during their lives. This disorder involves episodes of rage so intense that relationships, jobs, property and even lives can be lost in a single outburst. IED sufferers often report that they even los... read more

Sexual harassment, child abuse, incest, rape, murder, war--it's impossible today to hear a news report and "not" be informed of violent acts perpetrated by men. Acknowledging that there are no easy answers to the problem of male violence--particularly in a world that seems to thrive on aggression and physical force--"Men's Wo... read more

"A powerful and important book. Dangerous Relationships could be a life saver." -- Susan Forward, therapist and author. "I would highly recommend this book to anyone who may be in a violent relationship, or to a relative or close personal friend who has concerns about the safety of someone they love." -- Diane P. McGauley... read more

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Emotional abuse and neglect are at the core of all types of child maltreatment, and have the most harmful effects on the physical and psychological development and well-being of children. Yet they are considered to be the most difficult to deal with by those who have the responsibility to protect and intervene in effective wa... read more

Would you recognise a child molester standing in a supermarket queue? And if you did, would you understand what went on in his - or her - mind? Nigel Latta is a forensic psychologist. He spends his working life with the sort of people most of us would prefer to pretend didn't exist.
In this new edition of his ground-bre... read more

An important contribution to the field of child protection... the editors have aspired to offer an encyclopedic overview of knowledge about child abuse and neglect.
The APSAC Handbook will serve as a reference for both practitioners and researchers in the various disciplines involved in investigation, adjudication, prev... read more

Focusing on how child protection professionals can build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantiated child abuse or neglect, this book brings the solution-oriented model to child protection work. Providing practical strategies for building a partnership with parents, it aims to prevent abuse and fa... read more

Written by a psychologist who has worked with families and foster children for 11 years, Treating Families and Children in the Child Protective System is designed for therapists, social workers, family preservationists, court officers, attorneys, judges, and others caught up in the interplay of child protection.
Usi... read more

With the government giving priority to preventing child harm and family breakdown, a number of initiatives have been launched to tackle problems in this area.
Part of the NSPCC Protecting Children series and revised in paperback to take account of the new green paper 'Every Child Matters', Supporting Families invest... read more

It has been widely noted in the social work literature that the practice of child protection is highly gendered. When it comes to child abuse, women come under more scrutiny and men, who are more likely to present a risk of harm to children, are not engaged with.
This text takes stock of this controversial topic, e... read more

How can professionals build constructive relationships with families where the parents dispute professional allegations of serious child abuse? How can meaningful safety for children be created in these families? How can professionals work together constructively in such cases? Situations where parents refute child abuse alle... read more

Recent studies by the US Department of Health and Human Services (1996, 1999, 2000, 2002) show that children are almost twice as likely to be neglected by their families as they are to be abused, and that the effects of neglect are at least as devastating as those of abuse. And yet there is a glaring gap in the literature... read more

A professional book aimed at practitioners and practitioners in training, this volume is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive, practical approach to the assessment and treatment of physically abused children.
While there are other books that cover certain aspects of assessment and treatment, this book is com... read more

"A powerful and important book. Dangerous Relationships could be a life saver." -- Susan Forward, therapist and author. "I would highly recommend this book to anyone who may be in a violent relationship, or to a relative or close personal friend who has concerns about the safety of someone they love." -- Diane P. McGauley... read more