Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice, Susan Schechter and Jeffrey L. Edleson, PhD, (1999).
WHAT ABOUT ME! Seeking to Understand the Child's View of Violence in the Family, Alison Cunningham and Linda Baker (2004)
Domestic Violence and Its Role in Child Welfare by Jené Toussaint (April 2006)
Children and Domestic Violence: A Bulletin For Professionals, Child Welfare Information Gateway (2003)
Advocacy Matters: Helping Mothers and Their Children Involved with the Child Protection System, Family Violence Prevention Fund
Learning to Listen, Learning to Help: Understanding Woman Abuse and Its Effects on Children,
Linda Baker & Alison Cunningham (2005)
Breaking Free, Starting Over: Parenting in the Aftermath of Family Violence, by Christina M Dalpiaz
What is often labeled domestic violence is, in this book, referred to as family violence, because the emotional terrorism that infuses violence between adults affects not only the adult victims but also the children who witness the abuse. Dalpiaz shows how a caring and thoughtful parent can recognize the trauma family violence inflicts upon children, and how to help them recover and go on to live happy, violence-free childhoods.
Children Who See Too Much: (lessons from the child witness to violence project),Betsy McAlister, Groves (2002)
In Children Who See Too Much, Betsy Groves debunks the myth that young age is a protector against the lasting effects of witnessing violence in the home. She makes the powerful case that traumatic events carried out by family members carry the most severe psychological risks for very young children and uses the newest cognitive research to explore how very young children process violence.
Groves draws upon the Child Witness to Violence Program's award-winning training programs for parents, teachers, police officers, clergy, and pediatric health care providers to lay out ways adults can understand and protect the very young children--all around us--who see too much.
