Assessing Risk To Children From Batterers

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:05:05 +0000

Assessing Risk To Children From Batterers Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/14/2014 - 10:05

General Material

Published Date

January, 2002

Author(s)

This document provides an overview of potential sources of physical and psychological injury to children from contact with batterers, details recommendations for evaluating the risk to children and provides assessment guidelines that professionals can apply in cases where a batterer admits to a history of abusiveness by asserts that he has changed. Information is also provided regarding the necessary context for children's recovery from exposure to battering behavior. Authors' Summary: "Children exposed to battering behavior can benefit tremendously when professional have knowledge of the range of risks that batterers present to children, and when a systematic risk assessment tool is applied by child protective services and family courts. It is our hope that the model we are proposing here can serve as a launching point for the development of increasingly refined and sophisticated approaches to protecting children exposed to men who batter and to fostering their healing."

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Screening & Assessment

Child Welfare

Domestic Violence

Offenders / Perpetrators

Parenting

Young People

The Batterer as Parent

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:00:08 +0000

The Batterer as Parent Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 08/13/2014 - 14:00

General Material

Publisher(s)

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ)

Author(s)

Lundy Bancroft

"Research on children's exposure to domestic violence has tended to focus primarily on two aspects of their experience: the trauma of witnessing physical assaults against their mother, and the tension produced by living with a high level of conflict between their parents. However, these are just two elements of a much deeper problem pervading these children's daily life, which is that they are living with a batterer. The parenting of men who batterer exposes children to multiple potential sources of emotional and physical injury, most of which have not been recognized widely."

Characteristics of batterers described include:

Control
Entitlement
Possessiveness

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The Batterer as Parent

Material Categories

Domestic Violence

Parenting

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Assessing Risk To Children From Batterers

The Batterer as Parent