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Family Violence and Trauma: eResources

Key eJournals

Issues Trauma, Violence, & Abuse (TVA), peer-reviewed and published five times a year, is a review journal devoted to organizing, synthesizing, and expanding knowledge on all forms of trauma, abuse, and violence. Dedicated to professionals and advanced students, TVA is intended to compile knowledge that clearly affects practice, policy, and research. TVA publishes only reviews of research and law review articles.
Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma: Vol 27, No 5
From 2009, Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma has incorporated the topics, themes, and past content from the Journal of Psychological Trauma and Journal of Emotional Abuse.

The journal has crucial information on vital issues surrounding aggression, maltreatment, and trauma. You'll learn how to prevent these behaviors, how to help victims, and how to intervene in abusive situations using the latest research in these areas.

Publication CoverThe interdisciplinary Journal of Emotional Abuse provides a forum for interaction among practitioners, policymakers, and researchers in mental health, social services, law, child development, social and industrial systems, education, child protection, religion, medicine, nursing, and business. Since emotional abuse is only now emerging as a field of concern, part of the function of this journal will be to facilitate a growing understanding in the field.
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The Journal of Family Violence (JOFV) is a peer-reviewed publication committed to the dissemination of rigorous research on preventing, ending, and ameliorating all forms of family violence.

JOFV welcomes scholarly articles related to the broad categories of child abuse and maltreatment, dating violence, domestic and partner violence, and elder abuse.

IssuesJournal of Interpersonal Violence (JIV), published 24 times a year, is devoted to the study and treatment of victims and perpetrators of interpersonal violence, addressing the causes, effects, treatment, and prevention of all types of violence. It provides a forum of discussion for the concerns and activities of professionals and researchers working in domestic violence, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual assault, physical child abuse, and other violent crime.
IssuesJournal of Family Issues (JFI), published 18 times per year, provides up-to-date research, theory, and analyses on marriage and family life.
View Table of Contents for Child Abuse Review volume 29 issue 4Child Abuse Review provides a forum for all professionals working in the field of child protection, giving them access to the latest research findings, practice developments, training initiatives and policy issues.
Journal of Marriage and FamilyThe Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF), published by the National Council on Family Relations, is the leading research journal in the family field and has been so for over sixty years. JMF features original research and theory, research interpretation and reviews, and critical discussion concerning all aspects of marriage, other forms of close relationships, and families. The Journal also publishes book reviews.
Partner Abuse, a peer-reviewed quarterly, recognizes that physical and emotional abuse among dating, cohabitating and married partners is a major public health and social problem in North America and around the world. Its purpose is to advance knowledge, practice and policies through a commitment to rigorous, objective research and evidence-based solutions.

Key Databases

Web Resources

The Domestic Violence Resource Network (DVRN) is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to inform and strengthen domestic violence intervention and prevention efforts at the individual, community and societal levels.

WHO: Violence - A Global Public Health problem

WHO: Violence and Injury Prevention

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide

 International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect - Founded by Henry Kempe in 1977, ISPCAN works toward the prevention and treatment of child abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

World Health Organization (WHO) - Child Maltreatment

Crimes Against Children Research Center

Prevent Child Abuse America