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McConnell, Nicola; Schrader-McMillan, Anita; Telford, Paula; Barlow, Jane; Rayns, Gwynne – Child Care in Practice, 2020
Couple-based interventions that address domestic abuse are an emerging area of practice within the UK. These interventions require a detailed assessment process that can clarify risk and needs and screen out couples for whom such intervention is unsuitable. Steps to Safety is a new intervention, grounded in attachment and trauma theory, for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Violence, Intervention, Family Counseling
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Das, Chaitali – Child Care in Practice, 2012
Divorce or separation is one route towards addressing high conflict in marriages and may be a key route out of situations of significant domestic violence for women and children. However, divorce has been associated with feminisation of poverty and other negative outcomes which can be further exacerbated for victimised women. While there has been…
Descriptors: Divorce, Family Violence, Mothers, Foreign Countries
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Brown, Geraldine; Brady, Geraldine; Letherby, Gayle – Child Care in Practice, 2011
In 2009 the National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children published "Partner Exploitation and Violence in Teenage Intimate Relationships". This publication reports on the first major study in the United Kingdom to systematically document the incidence rates and dynamics of intimate partner violence in the lives of young…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Mothers, Pregnancy, Intimacy