Family Abuse: Consequences, Theories, and Responses

Each chapter includes Review questions, Summary, Key Terms, Bibliography. I. FAMILY ABUSE: DEFINING THE PROBLEM. 1. The Nature, Types and Prevalence of Family Abuse. II. FAMILY ABUSE: ITS NATURE, VARIETIES AND CONSEQUENCES. 2. The Nature and Varieties of Physical Abuse. 3. The Nature and Varieties of Sexual Abuse. 4. The Nature and Varieties of Psychological Abuse. III. THEORETICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF FAMILY ABUSE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. 5. Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse and Deviancy: Theoretical Interpretations. 6. Psychological Maltreatment and its Consequences: Theoretical Interpretations. 7. The Status of Theory on Family Abuse and its Consequences: Problems and Issues. IV. VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS. 8. Violence across the Life Course. 9. Victims and Perpetrators: Family Abuse by Gender, Race, Ethnicity and other Correlates. V. SPECIAL POPULATIONS, INTERVENTIONS AND TREATMENT. 10. Special Populations and Complicating Factors. 11. Treatment and Prevention of Family Abuse. 12. What Do We Know? What Is to Be Done?