Course Adoption Books on Violence
- Abused Women and Survivor Therapy
This state-of-the art treatment manual contends that traditional psychotherapies for trauma victims have been insufficient in treating abused women. The author describes critical modifications to traditional practice that will allow practitioners to work more effectively with female victims of abuse.
- Comprehending Suicide
This volume gathers in one book 13 of the most thought-provoking works of the century that offer invaluable insights on suicide and on responses to it.
- Ethnopolitical Warfare
This APA book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of why ethnic conflicts escalate or deescalate and offers psychological analyses of group identity and conflict.
- Justice and the Prosecution of Old Crimes
This APA book looks at the psychological impact that the prosecution of old crimes has on both society and the victims.
- Living in Prison
Living in Prison offers a comprehensive inmates' view of prison life, set against a backdrop of objective information to understand how individual prisoners relate to and cope with their environment.
- Making Good
This book offers a narrative analysis of the lives of repeat offenders who turned their lives around, a literature review on personal reform and a guide to the use of narratives in offender counseling.
- Mandated Reporting of Suspected Child Abuse
The second edition of this APA book contains an extensive set of guidelines and recommendations on how to respond to mandated reporting laws in a variety of settings.
- The Social Psychology of Emotional and Behavioral Problems
This APA book documents the rich interplay between social and clinical psychology in theory and research.
- Treating Adult and Juvenile Offenders With Special Needs
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to mental health services exploring the history, rights, standards and treatment of offenders with special needs in correction environments.
- Violence Against Children in the Family and the Community
This book brings together the latest findings from research on violence, with the aim of integrating findings and pointing out gaps that future research needs to address.
- Violent Men
This revised edition explores the personal motives, attitudes, assumptions, and perceptions of men who are recurrently violent.
- Violent Offenders
In this new edition, the authors update their review, focusing on the actuarial instruments they developed and described earlier and on the measures they have continued to develop.
