Family Problems and Family Violence: Reliable Assessment and the ICD-11

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?This remarkable volume…is both conceptually robust and highly practical?The book promises to heighten awareness among clinicians around the world about the diagnostic and therapeutic importance of family relationships in human health and disease. It also will serve as a roadmap for the critically important work that lies ahead.?

?David G. Addiss

Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership

Kalamazoo, MI

Family problems and family violence are major global concerns that have a vast impact on both psychological and physical health, and economic well-being. This text, the only book of its kind, describes recent innovations in defining and assessing family problems and family violence. It provides a framework for improving global assessment of relational processes as addressed in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).

The book includes a complete set of practical clinical and public health tools?easily implemented across a wide range of setting?for defining, screening, and assessing family violence in accordance with these new definitions. It reviews the impact of family violence on all aspects of physical and mental health and economic well-being, including global considerations of cross-cultural relationship assessment, and provides recommendations for modifications and cross-cultural validation. The book is consistently organized for ease of use and consolidates ICD codes into four scientifically based categories: intimate partner violence, partner relationship distress, child maltreatment, and parent-child relation problems. Clinicians who assess and treat family violence and students and policymakers will benefit from several new state-of-the-art screening tools and structured interviews that can be easily administered in hospitals, clinics, and other health care settings. This text will also be an important addition to graduate training programs across many disciplines regarding the assessment of family maltreatment, parent-child problems, and relationship discord.

Key Features: Contains a wealth of current validated screening and interview tools that can be used in clinical or research settings Provides a global perspective on assessing and treating family violence Provides recommendations for surveillance of family problems and family violence addressed in the ICD-11 Highlights the implications of relational problems for mental and physical health and economic well-being in a global context

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Dr. Beach is a faculty member in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Georgia and a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience investigating the role of social relationships in the development and maintenance of psychopathology, particularly depression and substance use disorders. He currently serves as Director of the William A. and Barbara R. Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, an interdisciplinary research institute. He is widely recognized as an authority on the link between marital discord and depression and the use of marital interventions in the context of depression. He is also recognized for his research on the role of genetic moderators of intervention response and other contextual variables, and the potential role of epigenetic regulation in accounting for contextual and intervention effects.

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Dr. Heyman is Professor at New York University. Dr. Heyman co-directs the Family Translational Research Group (with Dr. Amy Slep) in the Department of Cariology and Comprehensive Care. He earned a B.S. from Duke University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon. Dr. Heyman has received 40 grants/contracts from major U.S. funding agencies on a variety of family-related topics, from anger escalation in couples to the impact of family violence on children to community-level prevention of family maltreatment, substance problems, and suicidality. Dr. Heyman has published over 100 scientific articles/chapters focused on couple dysfunction, intimate partner violence and child maltreatment and their risk factors and|

Amy M. Smith Slep received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University. She is Professor of Comprehensive Care and Cariology at New York University. Along with her collaborator Richard Heyman, she co-founded and co-directs the Family Translational Research Group. Dr. Slep’s research focuses on many different aspects of conflict and violence in families: the development of dysfunctional parenting, the connections between parenting and partner conflict, the dynamics of conflict escalation and de-escalation in productive and destructive conflicts, and what facets of exposure to violence impact children’s functioning and how these impacts can be buffered. She also focuses on how to best prevent family violence. Her work on definitions of maltreatment has resulted in definitions that are now being used through the U.S. military. She has published nearly 100 scientific articles and book chapters and has received nearly 40 federal research grants. She is a licensed clinical psychologist.

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Dr. Foran is the principal investigator of a project on couple functioning and psychopathology funded by the German Research Foundation at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany and a part-time consultant for the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Her research examines intimate partner violence from a public health perspective with an emphasis on assessment, surveillance, and models of risk and protection. Dr. Foran received her doctoral in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University and is a licensed U.S. psychologist. She has numerous scholarly articles on family-related topics and psychopathology and is chair of the relational processes and ICD-11 working group.