Jeffrey L Edleson

• MSSW and Ph.D. in Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Chair at University of California, Berkeley

This article offers reflections on the article “Bystander Training as Leadership Training: Notes on the Origins, Philosophy and Pedagogy of the Mentors in Violence Prevention Model” by Jackson Katz in this issue of Violence Against Women. The authors rely on their unique perspectives in varying roles at the University of California (UC) Berkeley, a...

This article presents a longitudinal examination of the association between children's experiences of child maltreatment (CM) and intimate partner violence (IPV), alone and in combination, with children's academic performance. Integrated, administrative data from the Minnesota Departments of Education and Human Services were used to obtain a sample...

First-time fathers begin to develop their identity during their transition to fatherhood. The new standard for father involvement during this transition hinges on the dual expectation of fathers as caregivers and financial providers, influencing first time fathers’ identity development. By analyzing data collected from six focus groups (N = 47 fath...

Engaging men in addressing violence against women (VAW) has become a strategy in the global prevention of gender-based violence. Concurrently, Western public health frameworks have been utilized to guide prevention agendas worldwide. Using qualitative methods, this study describes how global anti-violence organizations that partner with men concept...

This study presents descriptive findings from in-depth interviews with 29 representatives of organizations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North and South America that engage men and boys in preventing gender-based violence. In particular, the findings suggest that strategies are responsive to the specific cultural, economic, and contextual c...

The transition to first-time fatherhood has been shown to be a stressful time for men and social support is a factor that influences this experience. Research on first-time fathers’ experiences with formal support, such as programmatic efforts like childbirth classes and family education, is limited. This qualitative study explores first-time fathe...

Reports an error in "Best violence research of 2012: Selections from an invited panel of researchers" by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Jeffrey Edleson, Delphine Collin-Vézina, Eric S. Mankowski and Viola Vaughan-Eden (Psychology of Violence, 2013[Jul], Vol 3[3], 203-211). In the article, the name of one of the authors of the featured articles was missp...

[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 3(4) of Psychology of Violence (see record 2013-28017-001). In the article, the name of one of the authors of the featured articles was misspelled throughout the text and in Table 1. Miloski, R. should have been Milloshi, R. In addition, the middle initial of Carlos Cuevas was miss...

This research note expands on the limited body of knowledge about men's engagement in preventing violence against women. One hundred and sixty-five individuals representing organizations from around the world participated in a brief online survey about their efforts to engage men in violence prevention. This study reveals a large and diverse global...

As gender-based violence prevention programs around the world increasingly include efforts to engage men and boys as antiviolence allies, both the profound benefits and the inherent complexities of these efforts are emerging. Acknowledging and exploring tensions associated with engaging men is an important element of thoughtfully fostering men’s an...

Introduction Engaging men as partners has been promoted worldwide as an important strategy in the primary prevention of Violence Against Women (VAW). Concurrently, Western public health frameworks have been increasingly utilized to guide violence prevention agendas globally. However there has been limited discussion into how anti-violence organiza...

Background & Purpose Given the persistent prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in the lives of girls and women, there has been an increased global emphasis on the importance of conducting primary IPV prevention strategies at multiple ecological system levels (Casey & Lindhorst, 2009). Engaging men as allies in addressing IPV has been prom...

Purpose: Ending violence against women is a global priority (United Nations, 2010; WHO, 2009). Global efforts to end violence against women must address gender and gender roles and include involving men (WHO, 2007). While Flood (2010) argues that ending violence against women necessarily involves men, the role of men engaged in this work is relativ...

An eyeopening appraisal of how current Hague Child Abduction Convention agreements unintentionally harm abused women and their children.

Problem Statement and Relevance: Many women come into the United States with their children after leaving an abusive relationship in another country and become involved in a legal dispute under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. This may result in wrongfully labeling the mother as a child abductor and childr...

The Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) was established in 1994 through an appropriation of the Minnesota Legislature. Located at the University of Minnesota, MINCAVA conducts original research, develops extensive collections of translational materials, provides higher education training on family violence prevention, and dissemin...

This qualitative study examined U.S. legal cases where battered mothers living abroad fled with their children to the United States. These women subsequently faced child abduction lawsuits brought by their batterer. The cases are governed by the Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the Hague Convention) which was ratified b...

OBJECTIVE: To preliminarily evaluate telephone-delivered motivational enhancement therapy (MET) in motivating unadjudicated and nontreatment seeking intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators, who also use substances, to self-refer into treatment. METHOD: 124 adult men were recruited via a multimedia marketing campaign and were randomly assigned...

Background and Purpose: Reaching and motivating intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators to self-refer into treatment is urgent due to continued high rates of violence in intimate relationships, low treatment self-referral rates among perpetrators, and high dropout rates in the small percentage of perpetrators who are in treatment. A successful...

Designed to advance knowledge about violence against women and to serve as an inspiration to those studying or working in the field, this companion reader’s 20 original articles focus first on theoretical and methodological issues, then on types of violence against women, and finally on prevention and direct intervention. Readers will find a wide r...

Child welfare professionals are expected to promptly assess the current safety and future risks of children reported to them. Developing more accurate assessment methods has been a growing concern in child welfare. The presence of domestic violence and children's exposure to it are factors that have been included in many current risk assessment mod...

Editorial: I wanted to title the introduction to this special issue “What’s the Punch Line?” but punch is too violent and Ellen Pence would tease me no end if I did that, and she’d do it in front of a large audience, I am sure of it! But I do think of punch lines when I think of Ellen. She loves to tease people and tell humorous stories. Most peopl...

This research was designed to evaluate the applicability of social norms approaches to interventions with male perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV). Participants included 124 nonadjudicated IPV perpetrating men recruited from the general population who completed assessment of their own IPV behaviors via telephone interviews and estimated...

Surprisingly, little is known about how IPV perpetrators perceive the conse quences of their violent behavior. This article describes the development and evaluation of the Perceived Consequences of Domestic Violence Questionnaire (PCDVQ). The PCDVQ is a 27 item self report instrument designed to assess the consequences of intimate partner violence...

Background and Purpose: Domestic violence is a family crime that occurs in a social context. In order to recuperate from such a tragedy, battered women often require support from both informal networks and formal service sectors (Liang, Goodman, Tummala-Narra & Weintraub, 2005). However, many battered women may be reluctant to use formal services d...

Background and Purpose: The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction took effect in the United States in 1988; presently, 51 countries are signatories to the treaty. The Convention has two goals. First, it prohibits parents from taking their children from the children's home country. Second, the Convention establishes procedures for...

Background/Purpose: Nearly 1000 cases of international child abduction were reported to the United States State Department in the most recent year for which data are available. Over half of these cases involve mothers who may face legal action under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Anecdotally, domestic vi...

What is the best way to work with fathers who have a history of abusive behavior toward their intimate partners? This question is among the thorniest that social service and criminal justice professionals must deal with in their careers, and this book examines the host of equally difficult issues that surround it. Beginning with the voices of mothe...

Supervised visitation centers (SVCs) have developed rapidly across the United States. Increasingly, courts are restricting contact between abusive intimate partners and their children by ordering visitation or exchanges to occur at SVCs. This article describes some of the key lessons the authors learned over 18 months of planning and then another 1...

The co-occurrence of adult domestic violence and child physical abuse has been well documented. Although collaboration between domestic violence and child protection services has been the focus of new efforts for better serving women experiencing domestic violence and their children, there is limited information about the types of families experien...

Although voluntary enrollment by abusive men in domestic violence perpetrator treatment programs occurs, most men enter treatment only after they have injured a partner or family member and have been arrested, convicted and sentenced. This leaves a serious gap for those who engage in abusive behavior but who have not been served by the legal or soc...

Batterer intervention programs primarily work with individuals mandated to participate. Commonly, attrition is high and outcomes are modest. Motivational enhancement therapy (MET), most widely studied in the substance abuse field, offers a potentially effective approach to improving self-referral to treatment, program retention, treatment complianc...

This article describes the development and testing of the psychometric properties of a self-administered Child Exposure to Domestic Violence (CEDV) Scale. The 42-item CEDV was systematically developed using both pre-existing and newly developed items and subsequently subjected to a review and revision by an international panel of experts to establi...

Research examining intimate partner violence (IPV) has lacked a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding and treating behavior. The authors propose two complementary models, a treatment approach (Motivational Interviewing, MI) informed by a theory (Self-Determination Theory; SDT), as a way of integrating existing knowledge and suggesti...

The emerging interest in children's exposure to adult domestic violence has brought about calls for better methods to assess such exposure. Currently no assessment tools exist that adequately measure the diversity of children's experiences with domestic violence. In this article we identify several factors affecting children's experiences and conse...

The purpose of this study was to describe policy and practice with respect to the assessment of intimate partner violence in a sample of child welfare agencies located throughout the United States and to examine the relationship of contextual characteristics and assessment practices. Telephone interviews were conducted with key informants from chil...

This article employs a developmental risk and resilience framework to examine the impact of exposure to intimate partner violence on young children, particularly those facing economic hardship. In doing so, it reviews and weaves together two separate literatures, one on emotional and behavioral development in high-risk settings and the other on chi...

This article presents results of a study examining what happens to children when domestic violence is committed against their mothers. While many investigations have pointed to child exposure to violence in homes where women are battered, few have examined direct reports about what happens to children when adult domestic violence occurs. This study...

Policymakers are increasingly focusing on children exposed to domestic violence. The 1999 Minnesota legislature amended the definition of child neglect to include a child's exposure to family violence. What was initially seen as a simple change to bring more attention to children exposed to domestic violence resulted in great turmoil across Minneso...

Despite growing attention to the issue of children's exposure to adult domestic violence (DV) there is little systematic information available on the level of DV in the child protective caseload or on the pathways of such cases through these systems. This paper reports an examination of one state's child maltreatment reports during a 1-year period....

Domestic violence (DV) and child maltreatment co-occur in many families and this may lead to involvement with child welfare services (CWS). This study explores the role of domestic violence in CWS using data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, a large, national probability sample of families investigated for child maltreatm...

This article discusses the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and its impact on battered mothers and their children seeking safety in the United States. We discuss relevant articles of the convention, the extent to which adult domestic violence is present in cases of international parental abduction, and cases in...

For several decades, we have witnessed a surge in public policies aimed at ending child maltreatment, youth violence, and adult domestic violence. Commensurate with this increased interest has been a growing body of research on each issue's etiology, affected population, and the public policy and prevention impacts. Even a cursory review of the lit...

We are grief-stricken because we realize how transient our presence on this earth is and how swiftly a valuable life can be snuffed out for no reason at all. We are without consolation because the deaths of the Wellstones remind us that life can be unfair. We question whether there is a thing such as justice, and we despair. Yet we must find a way...

There is limited research available on children’s involvement in incidents of adult domestic violence. This study collected direct reports on real-life events and went beyond earlier research by eliciting information on a larger array of family and contextual factors that may account for variation in children’s responses. Anonymous telephone interv...

Professional attention to families experiencing both child maltreatment and woman battering has increased in recent years. This study examined data for 172 families—95 families for which police had filed child abuse incident reports and adult domestic assault incident reports, and 77 other families for which police had filed child maltreatment repo...

Examines the role of domestic violence and child maltreatment in the lives of children. The chapter highlights available measures, methods for analyzing data, advances in intervention, and strategies and minimum standards for coordinating research in domestic violence. The authors extend the results of their work into the public arena by taking int...

The problems of child maltreatment and violence against women have traditionally been viewed and treated as two distinct issues. In response to these two forms of family violence, two separate service systems with different approaches to prevention, treatment and intervention have developed. This article outlines sources of conflicts between child...

Children appear to underutilize domestic violence counseling services. The aim of this qualitative study was to learn about the factors that former adult clients of a domestic violence agency identify as barriers to their child's participation in and completion of available services. Findings are based on interviews with 105 parents of 205 children...

Social service professionals are more frequently identifying children who witness adult domestic violence as victims of that abuse. This article expands common definitions of how children witness adult domestic violence. A total of 31 research articles that met established quality criteria were included in this review. A variety of behavioral, emot...

The past three decades have witnessed a rapid expansion of programs for abused children and for battered women. Despite evidence that child maltreatment and woman battering often occur in the same families, these service sectors mostly operate independently of each other and are sometimes in conflict. There are scant data available on either the cu...

Societal responses to child maltreatment and to woman battering have developed in separate and sometimes conflicting ways. It is only in recent years that greater attention has been devoted to the possible overlap between child maltreatment and woman battering in the same families. Thirty-five studies conducted over the past 2½ decades that mention...

This study was conducted at a large Midwestern domestic violence agency. It identified (a) the agency's potential child client population, (b) the agency's actual child client population, and (c) factors that enhance the likelihood of a child's participation in and completion of the agency's children's program. The study sample included 194 childre...

This commentary identifies critical issues regarding social interventions with families where both child maltreatment and woman battering are suspected. The author addresses several common assumptions of service providers and suggests changes in current practice.

This study was conducted at a large Midwestern domestic violence agency. It identified (a) the agency's potential child client population, (b) the agency's actual child client population, and (c) factors that enhance the likelihood of a child's participation in and completion of the agency's children's program. The study sample included 194 childre...

This study examined the ability of Ajzen's (1988; 1991) Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to explain men's cessation of violent behavior. TPB suggests that a man's intention to abuse his female partner, and therefore his subsequent abusive behavior will be determined by: (1) his evaluation of possible outcomes of abusive behavior (attitudes toward b...

Few studies outside North America have examined social attitudes regarding wife assaults. This article reports the results of a national survey of 510 randomly selected Singapore adults. Similar to findings in the U.S. and Australia, this study found overwhelming public disapproval of wife beatings but an acceptance of certain situational justifica...

Traducción de: Future interventions with battered women and their families Incluye bibliografía

As this century draws to a close, governments around the world are increasing their legal intervention in cases of wife assault. Yet few studies have examined the degree of popular approval for such interventions. This article reports the findings of a random sample of 510 adults in Singapore who responded to a series of questions regarding formal...

"Ending the Cycle of Violence" begins with a discussion on living in a violent culture, and covers the varied and complex arena of intervention with children of battered women. It provides an overview of current practice including strategies and program models. The . . . contributors present a concise and accessible look into 3 major areas: shelter...

provide an overview of group processes and related outcomes in group work with children of battered women / focus on the [Children's Program] of the Domestic Abuse Project (DAP) / the Children's Program provides intake, group orientation, and closing family sessions, a 10-session program for groups of children in differing age groups, and a concurr...

The literature defining advocacy for battered women is almost nonexistent and there is no systematic research on its parameters. This article reports the results of a national survey of 379 advocacy services in the United States. Findings on organizational context, definitions of advocacy, client issues and concerns, advocate activities, and advoca...

This article reports one of the first studies of woman abuse in the Arab world. A standardized measurement package was completed by 434 engaged Arab-Palestinian men living in Israel. The study sought to explain men's differential use of conflict tactics with their fiances using variables representing three frameworks: (1) male dominance, (2) interg...

PIP This article presents data from a national survey on social work intervention in cases of wife assaults in Singapore. The survey was conducted from March to July 1992 among 510 citizens, educated and over 17 years old. Trained interviewers during a 20-minute interview used a structured questionnaire divided into six major sections. Respondents...

Interpersonal factors were examined in 60 couples who reported violence by male against female partner and in 60 couples who did not. Violent men reported lower partnership quality and less social support than did nonviolent men. Battered women reported lower partnership quality but more positive social support than did women with nonviolent partne...

During the past 2 decades, the criminal justice system has significantly changed its response to battered women and their assailants. These changes are, in part, being encouraged by newly established community intervention projects (CIPs) across the United States. This study reports the findings of victim interviews and archival data concerning inc...

As this century ends there continues to be little public attention devoted to child witnesses of woman abuse and few social programs exist to meet their needs. This article presents the findings of a qualitative evaluation of a group program for children of battered women. Interviews were conducted with 16 mothers, 5 fathers, 9 group leaders, and 3...

This article presents a conceptual framework for analyzing societal responses to women battering in Israel. The model of policy analysis consisted of three specific dimensions namely: 1) descriptive-operational; 2) analytic interpretive; and 3) chronological. Allocation provision delivery and financing of interventions with the abused Israeli women...

As this century ends there continues to be little public attention devoted to child witnesses of woman abuse and few social programs exist to meet their needs. This article presents the findings of a qualitative evaluation of a group program for children of battered women. Interviews were conducted with 16 mothers, 5 fathers, 9 group leaders, and 3...

Surveyed 31 woman-battering interventions in small cities, towns, rural areas, and Indian reservations in Minnesota. The programs have identified various unmet needs such as transitional housing, job training, and child care, but few are able to fill the gap because financial resources are scarce. The programs exhibit a high level of skill both in...

Recent advances have made a variety of instant communication technologies widely available to human service researchers. The authors describe one such technology, electronic mail networks, and illustrate both its advantages and disadvantages in improving applied research collaboration within the human services.

Social workers, psychologists, and other mental health professionals are increasingly offering services to men who batter their women partners. This article describes the results of an experiment comparing three types of brief treatment groups offered in two differing intensities to batterers. Of 283 men who were randomly assigned to one of the six...

This article examines social workers' intervention in woman abuse in the earlier part of this century. A systematic random sample of 586 case records dating from 1907 to 1945 was drawn from a larger collection of approximately 35,000 cases. The 98 cases in which evidence of woman abuse was found were further analyzed. The results indicate that, con...

As part of a larger ecological analysis of woman battering in Israel, this study examined the combined ability of selected cognitive and interpersonal measures to differentiate among couples in which women were battered and those in which they were not. The ability of these variables to predict men''s physical violence and verbal abuse and women''s...

Current trends in intervention with woman batterers often focus upon changing their cognitive styles or socialized attitudes. There is, however, little empirical evidence supporting the contribution of these factors to woman abuse. This study examines the combined ability of selected cognitive and attitudinal measures to differentiate among violent...

An experiment was conducted to compare six different group treatment programs for men who batter. The 283 men included in the study were randomly assigned to one of three forms of group treatment offered in two different intensities. Of these men, 153 completed 80 percent or more of their assigned programs. Six months after group treatment ended, 9...

This article reviews the published research on intervention with men who batter. It analyzes the literature at five levels of intervention: individual, couple, men's group, institution, and culture. Intervention at each of these levels is then examined in terms of theoretical orientations, intervention techniques, and outcomes. We conclude that the...

This article presents four years of evaluation data from a large treatment program for men who batter their female partners. Follow-up data on violence and threats of violence as reported by female partners is presented for 156 men who completed the treatment program and comparison groups totalling 67 men who received varying amounts of treatment b...