Family Violence and the Caring Professions

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`...invaluable to people working with any victim of abuse, but also to help work with perpetrators.' - Jackie Pritchard, Community Care `...an excellent analysis and exposition of theoretical, policy and practice issues.' - John Turnbull, Nursing Times This text covers three separate but related areas of family violence and abuse. It enables comparisons and contrasts to be made between child, adult and elderly abuse. This book bridges the practice-theory gap with integration a cornerstone of the text. Good established practice and innovative methods are detailed. A multidisciplinary approach has been used to make this book required reading for all those who work with the problems of family violence.

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'...invaluable to people working with any victim of abuse, but also to help work with perpetrators.' - Jackie Pritchard , - Community Care '...an excellent analysis and exposition of theoretical, policy and practice issues.' - John Turnbull'- Nursing Times

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PAUL KINGSTON is a Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Social Studies at the University of Keele. BRIDGET PENHALE is Team Leader of a team of hospital social workers for the Social Services Department, Norfolk County Council.