Main description:

Handbook of Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan is an official publication of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV). It is a comprehensive state-of-the-science reference work for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. It is written from a trauma-informed perspective, and utilizes adverse childhood experiences research as its basic developmental framework along with the traumatic effects all forms of interpersonal violence tend to produce. With public health and social justice in mind, this human-rights based handbook also focuses on the overlap and continuum of the various types of interpersonal violence. It integrates all forms of interpersonal violence while dealing with key issues of intersectionality and systems responses.
This six-volume handbook is published in collaboration with the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan, which aims to:

Acknowledge and understand the impact interpersonal violence has on individuals and society

Recognize the mental, physical, legal, social, and economic burden of interpersonal violence

Respect an individual's basic right to live without violence; value human dignity

Promote consensus-based practices while maintaining cultural sensitivity

Consider and address the unique needs of vulnerable populations

Contents:

Introduction.- Fundamentals of Understanding Interpersonal Violence.- Human Rights Framework.- Adverse Childhood Experience.- Trauma-informed Issues.- Systems Responses to Interpersonal Violence.- and Abuse.- National Plan.- Integration of the Types of Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan.- Introduction.- Vulnerable Populations, Multicultural Issues, Immigration.- Historical Trauma.- Intergenerational Transmission of Abuse and Trauma.- Polyvictimization and Intersectionality.- Risk Assessment, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse.- Connections to Other Types of Maltreatment.- Child Maltreatment: Victimization and Perpetration.- Introduction.- Physical Abuse.- Abusive Head Trauma.- Neglect and Failure to Thrive.- Corporal Punishment.- Sexual Abuse in Childhood.- Missing and Exploited Children.- Emotional Abuse.- Sibling Abuse in Early Childhood.- Exposure to Violence in the Family during Childhood.- Neuropsychological Effects.- Policies & Laws.- Child Protective Services, Child Welfare, and Foster Care.- System Responses to Child Maltreatment.- Abuse in Institutional Settings.- Child Abuse Offenders.- Youth/Adolescent Maltreatment: Victimization and Perpetration.- Introduction.- Bullying.- Technology Facilitated.- Teen Dating Violence and Stalking.- Sexual Abuse in Adolescence (familial, stranger, etc.).- Compliant Victims (legal issues associated with consent/statutory rape).- Missing and Exploited Youth.- Emotional Abuse During Adolescence.- Corporal Punishment in Youth & Adolescence.- Youth & Adolescent Sibling Abuse.- Exposure to Family Violence During Adolescence.- Forced Marriage, Female Genital Mutilation, and Cultural Violence.- Date/Acquaintance Sexual Assault.- Youth with Sexual Behavioral Problems.- Abuse in Institutional Settings.- Outcomes.- Substance Abuse/Addictions.- System Responses to Maltreatment of Adolescents.- Community Violence and Abuse.- Introduction.- Gangs.- Organized Crime.- School Violence.- Mass Violence.- Homicide and Home Invasions.- Sex and Labor Trafficking.- Long-term Missing Youth.- Hate Crimes.- System Response to Community Violence.- Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Abuse.- Introduction.- Overview of Types of Abuse.- Theories of IPV Causation.- Intersectionality.- System Responses.- IPV Offenders.- Dynamics of Victimization.- IPV Victim Interventions.- Adult Sexual Harassment and Assault.- Introduction.- Identification and Continuum.- Betrayal Trauma.- Institutional Betrayal Trauma.- Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault.- Technology Facilitated.- Pornography.- Sexual Harassment in the Workplace.- Sex Offenders.- Institutional Settings.- Outcomes/Long-term Effects.- System Responses to Sexual Assault.- Older Adult/Elder Abuse.- Introduction.- IPV of Older Adults.- Sexual Assault of Older Adults.- Parent Abuse.- Financial Abuse.- Abandonment & Neglect.- Older Adult/elder Abuse in Institutional and Care Settings.- Mandated Reporting.- Polyvictimization in Later Life.- Outcomes and Long-term Effects.- Perpetrators of Older Adults.- System Responses to Older Adults.- International Perspectives.- Adult Survivors of Abuse.-Introduction.- Betrayal trauma.- Institutional betrayal trauma.- Legal issues and statute of limitations.- Outcomes.- Repressed/Recovered Memories.- Neuropsychological/Neurobiological Effects.- Head Traumas.- Treatment of Adult Survivors.- System Responses of Adult Survivors of Abuse.- Next Steps: Summary and Interconnections.- Introduction.- National Plan.- Future Directions in Research.- Future Directions in Interventions.- Future Directions in Policies.- Future Directions in Advocacy.- Future Directions in Prevention.