Robert T. Ammerman (Editor), Michel Hersen (Editor)

Almost every mental health professional is faced with evaluating individuals and families involved in domestic violence, including child abuse and neglect, incest, battering, elder abuse, and psychological abuse. This valuable resource is the only book exclusively devoted to the assessment of all types of family violence and explains how to determine if family violence is occurring.

. Through the work and contributions of preeminent researchers and practitioners, the Second Edition includes:

* State-of-the-art, empirically driven approaches to the clinical evaluation of violence involving children and adults

* Specific assessment measures to assess future risk and specialized issues, such as children who have witnessed marital violence and adult incest survivors

* Case examples and a new chapter on child neglect

* Current issues in the assessment of family violence, child maltreatment, and couples violence

* Assessment of elder abuse, woman battering, and extrafamilial child sexual abuse.

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