Treating Children of Domestic Violence

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Chen, X. Y., Lo, C. K. M., Chan, K. L., Leung, W. C., & Ip, P. (2022). Association between Childhood Exposure to Family Violence and Telomere Length: A Meta-Analysis. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(19), 12151. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912151

Einiö, E., Metsä-Simola, N., Aaltonen, M., Hiltunen, E., & Martikainen, P. (2023). Partner violence surrounding divorce: A record-linkage study of wives and their husbands. Journal of marriage and the family, 85(1), 33-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12881

Grzejszczak, J., Gabryelska, A., Gmitrowicz, A., Kotlicka-Antczak, M., & Strzelecki, D. (2022). Are Children Harmed by Being Locked up at Home? The Impact of Isolation during the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Phenomenon of Domestic Violence. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(21), 13958. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192113958

Huecker, M. R., King, K. C., Jordan, G. A., & Smock, W. (2023). Domestic Violence. In StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing.

Hulley, J., Bailey, L., Kirkman, G., Gibbs, G. R., Gomersall, T., Latif, A., & Jones, A. (2023). Intimate Partner Violence and Barriers to Help-Seeking Among Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Immigrant Women: A Qualitative Metasynthesis of Global Research. Trauma, violence & abuse, 24(2), 1001-1015. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380211050590

Lee, P. Y., & Lee, B. O. (2022). Lived Experiences of Domestic Violence in Women and Their Children: A Phenomenological Study. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 10(8), 1556. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10081556

McTavish, J. R., Chandra, P. S., Stewart, D. E., Herrman, H., & MacMillan, H. L. (2022). Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence in Mental Health Settings. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(23), 15672. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315672

Paré, D., & Headley, D. B. (2023). The amygdala mediates the facilitating influence of emotions on memory through multiple interacting mechanisms. Neurobiology of stress, 24, 100529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2023.100529

Rapp, H., Wang Xu, J., & Enright, R. D. (2022). A meta-analysis of forgiveness education interventions' effects on forgiveness and anger in children and adolescents. Child development, 93(5), 1249-1269. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13771

Sangeet, O., & Singh, S. (2022). Experiences of single-parent children in the current Indian context. Journal of family medicine and primary care, 11(7), 3790-3794. https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2455_21

Zumbach, J., Brubacher, S. P., Davis, F., de Ruiter, C., Ireland, J. L., McNamara, K., October, M., Saini, M., Volbert, R., & Laajasalo, T. (2022). International perspective on guidelines and policies for child custody and child maltreatment risk evaluations: A preliminary comparative analysis across selected countries in Europe and North America. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 900058. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.900058

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article References:
Ackerman, M. J., Bow, J. N., & Mathy, N. (2021). Child custody evaluation practices: Where we were, where we are, and where we are going. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 52(4), 406–417.

Bow, J. N., & Gottlieb, M. C. (2021). On developing a child custody practice. Practice Innovations, 6(4), 263–274.

Callaghan, J. E. M., Fellin, L. C., Alexander, J. H., Mavrou, S., & Papathanasiou, M. (2017). Children and domestic violence: Emotional competencies in embodied and relational contexts. Psychology of Violence, 7(3), 333–342.

Childs, C., & Walsh, D. (2018). Paradoxical invitations: Challenges in soliciting more information from child witnesses. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 51(4), 363–378.

Daniel, E., Rodrigues, M., & Jenkins, J. M. (2019). The development of internalizing problems in early childhood: The importance of sibling clustering. Journal of Family Psychology, 33(4), 381–390.

Davies, P. T., Coe, J. L., Hentges, R. F., Sturge-Apple, M. L., & Ripple, M. T. (2018). Interparental hostility and children’s externalizing symptoms: Attention to anger as a mediator. Developmental Psychology, 54(7), 1290–1303.

Dickinson, J. J., Lytle, N. E., & Poole, D. A. (2021). Tele-forensic interviewing can be a reasonable alternative to face-to-face interviewing of child witnesses. Law and Human Behavior, 45(2), 97–111.

Dubois-Comtois, K., St-Onge, J., St-Laurent, D., & Cyr, C. (2021). Paternal distress and child behavior problems in low-SES families: Quality of father–child interactions as mediators. Journal of Family Psychology, 35(6), 725–734.

Fridman-Teutsch, A., & Attar-Schwartz, S. (2019). Commitment to school and learning among youth in residential care: The role of mother and father support and parents’ divorce. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 89(2), 201–211.

Gold, A. I., Meyerowitz, B. E., & Thames, A. D. (2021). The influence of posttraumatic stress on memory complaints in neuropsychological settings. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 13(2), 240–248.

Goldfarb, E. V., Tompary, A., Davachi, L., & Phelps, E. A. (2019). Acute stress throughout the memory cycle: Diverging effects on associative and item memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(1), 13–29.

Halberstadt, A. G., Cooke, A. N., Garner, P. W., Hughes, S. A., Oertwig, D., & Neupert, S. D. (2020). Racialized emotion recognition accuracy and anger bias of children’s faces. Emotion.

Harman, J. J., Kruk, E., & Hines, D. A. (2018). Parental alienating behaviors: An unacknowledged form of family violence. Psychological Bulletin, 144(12), 1275–1299.

Henry, D. B., Tolan, P. H., & Gorman-Smith, D. (2005). Cluster Analysis in Family Psychology Research. Journal of Family Psychology, 19(1), 121–132.

Jones, C., Foley, S., & Golombok, S. (2021). Parenting and child adjustment in families with primary caregiver fathers. Journal of Family Psychology.

Jouriles, E. N., Vu, N. L., McDonald, R., & Rosenfield, D. (2014). Children’s appraisals of conflict, beliefs about aggression, and externalizing problems in families characterized by severe intimate partner violence. Journal of Family Psychology, 28(6), 915–924.

Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., Sullivan, C. M., & Greeson, M. (2010). The impact of family and community violence on children’s depression trajectories: Examining the interactions of violence exposure, family social support, and gender. Journal of Family Psychology, 24(2), 197–207.

Kilpatrick, K. L., & Williams, L. M. (1997). Post-traumatic stress disorder in child witnesses to domestic violence. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 67(4), 639–644.

Kobayashi, J. E., Bernard, N. K., Nuttall, A. K., Levendosky, A. A., Bogat, G. A., & Lonstein, J. S. (2021). Intimate partner violence and positive parenting across early childhood: Comparing self-reported and observed parenting behavior. Journal of Family Psychology, 35(6), 745–755.

Levendosky, A. A., Bogat, G. A., & Huth-Bocks, A. C. (2011). The influence of domestic violence on the development of the attachment relationship between mother and young child. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 28(4), 512–527.

Maheux-Caron, V., Trémolière, B., Lepage, J.-F., & Blanchette, I. (2021). Transcranial direct current stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex can reduce the detrimental effect of stress on working memory. Psychology & Neuroscience, 14(1), 73–81.

Marshall, A. D., Roettger, M. E., Mattern, A. C., Feinberg, M. E., & Jones, D. E. (2018). Trauma exposure and aggression toward partners and children: Contextual influences of fear and anger. Journal of Family Psychology, 32(6), 710–721.

Mansolf, M., Blackwell, C. K., Cummings, P., Choi, S., & Cella, D. (2021). Linking the Child Behavior Checklist to the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Psychological Assessment.

McAuliff, B. D., Nicholson, E., Amarilio, D., & Ravanshenas, D. (2013). Supporting children in U.S. legal proceedings: Descriptive and attitudinal data from a national survey of victim/witness assistants. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 19(1), 98–113.

O'Hara, K. L., Sandler, I. N., Wolchik, S. A., Tein, J.-Y., & Rhodes, C. A. (2019). Parenting time, parenting quality, interparental conflict, and mental health problems of children in high-conflict divorce. Journal of Family Psychology, 33(6), 690–703.

Owen, A. E., Thompson, M. P., & Kaslow, N. J. (2006). The mediating role of parenting stress in the relation between intimate partner violence and child adjustment. Journal of Family Psychology, 20(3), 505–513.

Piotrowski, C. C. (2011). Patterns of adjustment among siblings exposed to intimate partner violence. Journal of Family Psychology, 25(1), 19–28.

Pu, D. F., & Rodriguez, C. M. (2022). Child and parent factors predictive of mothers’ and fathers’ perceived family functioning. Journal of Family Psychology.

Renner, L. M., & Boel-Studt, S. (2017). Physical family violence and externalizing and internalizing behaviors among children and adolescents. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 87(4), 474–486.

Robertson, E. L., Walker, T. M., & Frick, P. J. (2020). Intimate partner violence perpetration and psychopathy: A comprehensive review. European Psychologist, 25(2), 134–145.

Schmidt, C. W., & Brigham, J. C. (1996). Jurors' perceptions of child victim-witnesses in a simulated sexual abuse trial. Law and Human Behavior, 20(6), 581–606.

Shorey, R. C., Fite, P. J., Torres, E. D., Stuart, G. L., & Temple, J. R. (2019). Bidirectional associations between acceptability of violence and intimate partner violence from adolescence to young adulthood. Psychology of Violence, 9(1), 108–116.

Sijtsema, J. J., Stolz, E. A., & Bogaerts, S. (2020). Unique risk factors of the co-occurrence between child maltreatment and intimate partner violence perpetration. European Psychologist, 25(2), 122–133.

Steinbach, A., & Augustijn, L. (2022). Children’s well-being in sole and joint physical custody families. Journal of Family Psychology, 36(2), 301–311.

Veira, Y., Finger, B., Schuetze, P., Colder, C. R., Godleski, S., & Eiden, R. D. (2014). Child behavior problems: Role of cocaine use, parenting, and child exposure to violence. Psychology of Violence, 4(3), 266–280.

Westbrook, T. R., & Harden, B. J. (2010). Pathways among exposure to violence, maternal depression, family structure, and child outcomes through parenting: A multigroup analysis. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 80(3), 386–400.

Winsor, A. A., Flowe, H. D., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., Killeen, I. M., Hett, D., Jores, T., Ingham, M., Lee, B. P., Stevens, L. M., & Colloff, M. F. (2021). Child witness expressions of certainty are informative. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(11), 2387–2407.

Zvara, B. J., Sheppard, K. W., & Cox, M. (2018). Bidirectional effects between parenting sensitivity and child behavior: A cross-lagged analysis across middle childhood and adolescence. Journal of Family Psychology, 32(4), 484–495.

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Davies, Jill PhD and Eleanor Lyon, Safety Planning With Battered Women, SAGE Publications: London, 1998.

Dubenetzky, Salome. Differential Diagnosis of Anxiety Disorders. Annals of Psychotherapy & Integrative Health. Summer2013, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p40-46. 7p. 2 Color Photographs, 3 Illustrations.

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Finkelhor, David, Heather Turner, Richard Ormrod, and Sherry L. Hamby, Violence, Abuse, and Crime Exposure in a National Sample of Children and Youth, Pediatrics: 2009-11.

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