The battering problem -- Power parenting: the batterer's style with children -- Shock waves: the batterer's impact on the home -- The batterer as incest perpetrator -- Impending recovery: the batterer as parent postseparation -- The mismeasure of batterers as parents: a critique of prevailing theories of assessment -- Supporting recovery: assessing risk to children from batterers and structuring visitation -- Is it real? Assessing and fostering change in batterers as parents -- Improving community responses to the parenting of batterers
Summary
Moving beyond the narrow clinical perspective, this text offers a view that takes into account the complex ways in which a batterer's abusive and controlling behaviors are woven into the fabric of daily life
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-308) and index
