Domestic Violence Content Topic Results
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Results displayed are grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections then by individual related materials. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
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- General Material
January 2002
Assessing Risk To Children From Batterers
Overview of potential sources of harm to children from contact with batterers, recommendations for evaluating risk, and assessment guidelines that professionals can apply in cases where a batterer admits to a history of abusiveness.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2002
In Touch with Teens
This curriculum in junior high and high schools and other youth organizations focused on healthy relationships including promoting social skills, bystander interventions, and effective communication.
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- General Material
January 2002
Factors Associated with a Man's Risk for Abusing His Partner
Publisher(s):This resource presents common risk factors at each socio-ecological level of prevention. Examples of common risk factors for perpetrating intimate partner violence include marital instability, poverty, and traditional gender norms.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2002
Domestic Violence: What Churches Can Do
Publisher(s): This one-hour program for use in Christian education offers basic information on domestic violence, as well as concrete ideas about how congregations can become involved in prevention and can offer a safe space for battered women.
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January 2002
The Net Effect: Girls and New Media - Executive Summary
Publisher(s):This report describes trends in the Internet habits of girls, their skills in navigating potentially difficult or emotional situations online, and advice on how parents and other adults can empower girls to have safe, positive online experiences.
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- Training Tools
- General Material
January 2002
Abusive Power and Control within the Domestic Violence Shelter
Publisher(s):This power and control wheel was created to illustrate how domestic violence shelters may inadvertently abuse power and control over survivors who seek services from them.
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- General Material
January 2002
The Essence of Being Real: Relational Peer Support for Men and Women who have Experienced Trauma
Publisher(s):This manual offers trauma survivors a way to explore their experiences, receive support, and work through the stigma often associated with needing help to heal.
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- General Material
January 2002
Extreme Critical Thinking Handout
This document lists questions to help guide an analysis of reforms and is based on Susan Schechter’s Women and Male Violence (1982).
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- General Material
January 2002
Batterers As Fathers: Rethinking and Reconceptualizing Policy and Practice
Publisher(s):This article describes an approach to intervention and prevention with children exposed to domestic violence that enforces the concepts of batterer accountability and change.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
November 2001
Spouse Assault Replication Program: Studies of Effects of Arrest on Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
Reviews NIJ studies on arrest policies for misdemeanor domestic assault, an attempt to replicate the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment (1984), which found that arrest was almost twice as effective as other police actions in preventing re-arrest.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
November 2001
Housing and Battered Women
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This paper offers a research on DV and homelessness and trends in federal housing policy. A model for conducting a community assessment of local housing needs includes critical thinking questions on an organization’s capacity for housing advocacy.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
November 2001
Working with Young Men Who Batter
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document reviews juvenile BIPs, identifies risk factors for teen dating violence perpetration, describes efforts to prevent re-offenses, discusses shortcomings inherent in post-crisis intervention, and outlines current challenges within the field.