Psychological Abuse in Violent Domestic Relations

This volume, edited by nationally known experts, K. Daniel O'Leary, Ph.D. (Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Psychological Association) and Roland D. Maiuro, Ph.D. (Gold Achievement Award, American Psychiatric Association), provides a compilation of writings on psychological and emotional abuse in violent domestic relations. Based, in part, on scholarly contributions to the peer review journal Violence and Victims, the book details the different forms and patterns of psychological abuse that often precede and accompany domestic violence. Standardized inventories and questionnaires for reliably measuring abuse are included and reports of recent studies on the impact of abuse upon mental health and social well being are provided. Interpersonal dynamics within specific high-risk populations such as low-income women and African American women also receive attention. An authoritative reference book for counselors, health care providers, family law attorneys, researchers, advanced students, and sophisticated readers concerned with what many consider to be the most toxic and lasting type of trauma in domestic violence - psychological maltreatment and abuse.