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October 2001
In Focus: Understanding the Effects of Maltreatment on Early Brain Development National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
Publisher(s):This document is a readable, easily understood review of how the brain develops, the effects of maltreatment on brain development, and implications for policy and practice.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
August 2001
Controversies and Recent Studies of Batterer Intervention Program Effectiveness
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document examines the effectiveness of batterer intervention programs in holding batterers accountable, increasing victim safety, and changing behavior and attitudes. The authors address the inherent complications in evaluating these outcomes.
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- General Material
April 2001
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Programs: Improving the Community Response to Sexual Assault Victims
Publisher(s):This Bulletin provides an anecdotal look at how U.S. SANE programs are impacting sexual assault victims, service practice, and communities.
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- General Material
March 2001
Survivors of intimate violence seek help online: Implications of responding to increasing requests
Publisher(s):This paper focuses on the nature of help-seeking emails and recommends that a strategic plan be developed to address safety, confidentiality and liability concerns of online advocacy. It explores some of the implications around responding to requests from survivors online.
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- General Material
March 2001
Ordinary Magic: Resilience Processes in Development
Publisher(s):This article concludes that resilience is made of ordinary rather than extraordinary processes, offering a more positive outlook on human development and adaptation, as well as direction for policy and practice aimed at enhancing the development of children at risk for problems and psychopathology.
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- General Material
March 2001
The CALCASA Strategic Forum Report: A Vision to End Sexual Assault
Publisher(s):This report represents the culmination of CALCASA's year-long strategic visioning process, which seeks to foster better understanding of the impact of sexual violence and encourage further collaboration to end sexual assault in California.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
February 2001
Towards an Understanding of Women's Use of Non-Lethal Violence in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
The paper examines the complex issue of women's use of non-lethal violence against their male partners including a review of existing research, an examination of the motivations and context, and a critical analysis to inform policy and practice.
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- Training Tools
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January 2001
Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse
Seeking Safety is an empirically studied, integrative treatment approach developed to help people attain safety from trauma/PTSD and substance abuse. This website provides implementation tools, sample topics, research summaries, articles, and assessment tools related to the program.
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- General Material
January 2001
Payment for Forensic Exams
Publisher(s):This report examines states' recent payment strategies for sexual assault forensic exams and the strategies' strengths and shortcomings.
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- General Material
January 2001
Male Victims of Domestic Violence: A Substantive and Methodological Research Review
Publisher(s):This paper explores claims of gender symmetry in intimate partners' use of violence by reviewing the empirical foundations of the research and critiquing existing sources of data on domestic violence.
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January 2001
Making Change Happen: Advocacy and Citizen Participation
Publisher(s):This work comes from dialogue of 49 people on the changing political context for social change work. Four key themes are covered: engagement in advocacy; issue-based struggle or struggle-based issue; who's who in advocacy; and how to assess success.
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- General Material
January 2001
CSWF Position Paper on Internet Text-Based Therapy
Publisher(s):Presents the beliefs of the Clinical Social Work Federation who is opposed to the practice of Internet-based treatment, arguing that services cannot be delivered online because of the inherent nature of the service.