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Evidence is mounting that animal abuse, frequently embedded in families scarred by domestic violence and child abuse and neglect, often predicts the potential for other violent acts. As early intervention is critical in the prevention and reduction of aggression, this boo encourages researchers and professionals to recognize animal abuse as significant problem and a human public-health issue that should be included as a curriculum topic in training. The book is an interdisciplinary sourcebook of original essays that examines the relations between animal maltreatment and human interpersonal violence, expands the scope of research in this growing area, and provides practical assessment and documentation strategies to help professionals confronting violence do their jobs better by attending to these connections. This book brings together, for the first time, all of the leaders in this emerging field. They examine contemporary research and programmatic issues, encourage cross-disciplinary interactions, and describe innovative programs in the field today. The book also includes vivid first-person accounts from survivors whose experiences included animal maltreatment among other forms of family violence.
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Evidence is mounting that animal abuse, frequently embeddedin families scarred by domestic violence and child abuse and neglect, oftenpredicts the potential for other violent acts. As early intervention iscritical in the prevention and reduction of aggression, this book encouragesresearchers and professionals to recognize animal abuse as a significantproblem and a human public-health issue that should be included as a curriculumtopic in training. The book is an interdisciplinary source book of originalessays that examines the relations between animal maltreatment and humaninterpersonal violence, expands the scope of research in this growing area, andprovides practical assessment and documentation strategies to helpprofessionals confronting violence do their jobs better by attending to theseconnections. As an outgrowth of the Latham Foundation’s 1995 training manual, Breaking the Cycles of Violence, thisbook is a historic step in helping professionals from these disciplines, aswell as the general public, recognize the cyclical and insidious nature offamily violence and provides training in recognizing peripheral forms of familyviolence outside a family’s immediate purview. It encourages cross-disciplinaryprevention and intervention strategies with an ultimate goal of reducing thelevels of violence which is such a great societal and cultural concern today.This book brings together, for the first time, all of theleaders in this emerging field. They examine contemporary research andprogrammatic issues, encourage cross-disciplinary interactions, and describeinnovative programs in the field today. Also included are vivid first-personaccounts from survivors whose experiences included animalmaltreatment among other forms of family violence. Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Animal Abuse provides professionalcommunities of psychologists and child welfare specialists with a deeper,higher, and more encompassing awareness and understanding of the cruciallinking of caring for animals and children in human experience. The combinationof careful research, documentation, and compelling narrative accounts areblended into a rich resource to help professionals, concerned citizens, andparents understand how the ethics of caring are not bounded by species.
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