MFT-6113: Assessing and Treating Family Violence

Vetere, A. (2017). Working systemically with families with intimate partner violence. In Dixon, L., Perkins, D. F., Hamilton-Giachritsis, C., & Craig, L. A. (Eds.). The Wiley handbook of what works in child maltreatment: An evidence-based approach to assessment and intervention in child protection (pp. 405-414).
This chapter introduces a systemic approach to assessing and treating families who have a history of IPV.

George, J., & Stith, S. M. (2014). An updated feminist view of intimate partner violence. Family Process, 53(2), 179–193.
This resource provides a refreshed application of feminist theory that addresses several limitations that have been identified in past feminist conceptualizations of IPV.

Kelly, J. B., & Johnson, M. P. (2008). Differentiation among types of intimate partner violence: Research update and implications for interventions. Family Court Review, 46(3), 476–499.
Reviews types of IPV and implications for making these distinctions.

Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs. (2017). Understanding the power and control wheel.
Video reviews the power and control wheel, a common tool used to
educate on the types of tactics used to maintain power and control in an intimate relationship.

Swan, S. C., Schramm, A. T., Rivera, E. A., Warren, P., White, C. N., & Satcher, L. (2018). A feminist analysis of women’s aggression in intimate relationships. InAPA handbook of the psychology of women: Perspectives on women’s private and public lives, Vol. 2 (pp. 253–269). American Psychological Association.
This chapter provides a theoretical framework for understanding women’s aggression in intimate relationships, particularly through a feminist perspective.

Johnson, M. P. (2011). Gender and types of intimate partner violence: A response to an anti-feminist literature review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 16(4), 289–296.
Reviews a feminist conceptualization to IPV and refutes a recent author’s criticisms of this approach.

Dutton, D. G., Hamel J., & Aaronson, J. (2010). The gender paradigm in family court processes: Re-balancing the scales of justice from biased social science. Journal of Child Custody, 7(1), 1–31.
This article presents an argument against Johnson’s work on intimate partner violence typologies and gender.