Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence

<p>Stop intimate partner violence before it starts<br><br>Intimate partner violence touches everyone. With more than 1 million cases reported each year this pervasive social problem has devastating effects on victims families and communities. <em>Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence</em> presents a comprehensive overview of the wide range of efforts and approaches that have been successful in preventing physical emotional and verbal abuse. <br><br>A growing frustration with the limits of therapeutic intervention and with the costs imposed on society by intimate partner violence has created a need for greater emphasis on state-of-the-art prevention programs that really work. <em>Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence</em> addresses the challenges of conducting and evaluating such programs gaps that exist in programming and research and future trends in those areas. A panel of domestic violence experts researchers and healthcare professionals examines how to change the ways individuals and the current health care system think about and respond to intimate partner violence; how to change the ways young people deal with anger in intimate relationships; and the ways society can support families to reduce the occurrence of violence in intimate relationships. <br><br><em>Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence</em> examines:</p><ul> <li>identifying risk factors<br> </li> <li>the cost-benefit of universal and targeted programs<br> </li> <li>the effectiveness of parenting stress management and substance abuse programs<br> </li> <li>community capacity theory<br> </li> <li>community development<br> </li> <li>social networks<br> </li> <li>media and public awareness campaigns<br> </li> <li>healthcare screening programs<br> </li> <li>and much more</li> </ul><p><em>Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence</em> documents the effectiveness of prevention interventions encouraging prevention specialists to use evidence-based interventions to enhance the effectiveness of their own work. This powerful book is an invaluable professional resource for social workers family life educators researchers and practitioners.</p>