Family Violence
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2018) | Viewed by 48444
Special Issue Editors
Interests: interpersonal dynamics and relationships, including parent-child relationships, intimate relationships, and friendships; secrecy, disclosure, privacy invasion, trust, self-control, family violence, divorce, and child abuse
Interests: child development and gene environment interaction, self-control, family conflict, domestic violence, high-conflict divorce
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Millions of people worldwide experience family violence in all its forms (interpersonal violence, child maltreatment, elder abuse, sexual violence). About 275 million children experience child abuse and witness interparental violence every year. One in 3 women in relationships throughout the world experiences interpersonal violence during their lifetime. Beyond the immediate mental and physical harm, exposure to family violence is one of the most important risk factors for physical disease, psychopathology, professional and academic failure, delinquency, substance use, suicide and other adverse outcomes across the life course. Also, exposure to family violence during childhood and adolescence predicts people’s use of violence themselves. Given the high prevalence of family violence and striking figures on associated risks for health and wellbeing, family violence poses a large economic burden and challenge to society and health care.
Despite significant advances, mechanisms explaining associations between family violence and psychosocial problems remain largely unknown, which hinders explaining and predicting family violence and, importantly, hampers the development of effective interventions. Therefore, this special issue is intended to highlight new directions in the study of family violence that set an agenda for research. In this special issue, we are interested in original research, case studies, and review articles examining the mechanisms, interpersonal dynamics, and influence of larger social contexts (neighbourhood violence, war) that give rise to family conflict and violence. We also welcome work that moves family violence to the realm of public health. Topics may include but are not limited to: interparental violence, child maltreatment, parent-child conflict, sibling interactions, intimate partner conflict, high-conflict divorce, and elder abuse. We welcome research from various perspectives and disciplines and will give priority to innovative contributions to any aspect of family violence. The goal of this Special Issue is to form a repository of current and diverse work investigating a diversity of mechanisms and processes giving rise to family violence.
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Prof. Dr. Catrin FinkenauerMs. Yayouk E. Willems
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Family violence
- Relational escalations
- Intimate partner conflict
- Parent-child conflict
- Relationship
- Mechanisms
- Intervention
- Mental health
- Interpersonal dynamics