Beschreibung:
Dr. Amanda Holt is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Lancaster University. She has published widely in the fields of parenting, youth justice and families and employs a multi-disciplinary approach to her research and analysis.
This is the first academic book to focus on adolescent-to-parent abuse and brings together international research and practice literature and combines it with original research to identify and critique current understandings in research, policy and practice.
Introduction; Abuse in families: commonalities, connections and contexts; Experiencing parent abuse; Explaining parent abuse; Parent abuse and power; Frontline services responses to parent abuse in England and Wales; Working with parent abuse: developments in group and family interventions; Discussion and conclusions.