Main description:

Understanding Domestic Violence not only highlights and reexamines the different challenges that we continue to face in effectively addressing issues of domestic violence but provides innovated approaches to interventions that are more in keeping with the complex nature of domestic violence. This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted examination of conditions and factors involved in domestic violence, including psychological, sociocultural, sociopolitical, and socioeconomic issues.

The authors look at domestic violence through the trauma lens and intersectionality to develop intervention strategies within that context. Statistics and clinical examples from the field highlight unique culturally-based issues related to domestic violence among Latino, African American, and Arab Muslim communities, issues with woman perpetrators, and violence in the LGBTQ community, to name a few. In the end, Understanding Domestic Violence offers opportunities for the reader to engage in further discussion of the poignant issues discussed in the book, with the invitation to become part of the solution.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Domestic Violence through the Trauma Lens: An Introduction, Rafael Art. Javier & William G. Herron

Part I Conceptual Framework
Chapter 2 Domestic Violence in All of its Contexts: An Issue for All Cultures, Races, Genders, and Classes, Rafael Art. Javier, William G. Herron, Gerald A. Pantoja, and Jennifer De Mucci
Chapter 3 Aggression, Domestic Violence and Risk Factors: An Overview, William G. Herron & Rafael Art. Javier
Chapter 4 Clinical Applications of the General Aggression Model to Domestic Violence, Wayne Warburton & Craig A. Anderson
Chapter 5 Psychoanalytic Theories of Domestic Violence, William Herron & Rafael Javier
Chapter 6 21st Century Medeas, Medusas, and Salomes: Violence Female Style, June Chisholm & Kristy Magee

Part II Challenges and Interventions: Domestic Violence in Ethnic and Cultural Contexts
Chapter 7 Family Maltreatment and Domestic Violence among Arab Middle Easterners: A Psychosocial, Cultural, Religious, and Legal Examination, Fatimah El Jamil & Naji Abi-Hashem
Chapter 8 Crucial Considerations in the Understanding and Treatment of Domestic Violence in African Couples, Carolyn West
Chapter 9 Understanding Domestic Violence within a Latino/Hispanic/Latinx Context: Environmental, Cultural, and Ecological Mapping as a Culturally Relevant Assessment Tool, Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers & Fred Millan

Part III Treatment and Intervention Issues
Chapter 10 Victimized and Disabled: Neuropsychological Issues at the Intersection of Gender and Ethnicity, Martha E. Banks
Chapter 11 The Impact of Stigma on Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Implications for Counseling, Christine Murray & Allison Crowe
Chapter 12 Essential Elements for an Effective Treatment Model of Domestic Violence in our Complex World: New Directions, Lenore Walker & Tara Jungersen

Part IV Conclusion
Chapter 13 The Complex Nature of Domestic Violence: Possible Causes and Solutions, Rafael Art. Javier, W. G. Herron, & Michelle Yakobson

Appendix I Resources for Domestic Violence Intervention
Appendix II Legal Precedents
Glossary