Moving beyond intervention theories and practices, this reference offers practitioners and scholars alternative views in responding to the ever growing problem of domestic violence in our communities. It presents and supports treatment options that encompass a range of gender dynamics, including violence perpetrated by heterosexual females.

Domestic violence: a gender-inclusive conception / John Hamel -- Thinking outside the box: gender and court-mandated therapy / Donald G. Dutton -- Risk factors for physical violence between dating partners: implications for gender-inclusive prevention and treatment of family violence / Rose A. Medeiros and Murray A. Straus -- Power and control in relationship aggression / Nicola Graham-Kevan -- Intimate stalking and partner violence / Stacey L. Williams, Irene Hanson Frieze, and H. Colleen Sinclair -- Couple violence: a new look at some old fallacies / Patricia Noller and Laurance Robillard -- Partner violence typologies / Nicola Graham-Kevan -- The impact of domestic violence on children's development / Patrick T. Davies and Melissa L. Sturge-Apple -- Family lessons in attachment and aggression: the impact of interparental violence on adolescent adjustment / Marlene M. Moretti, Stephanie Penney, Ingrid Obsuth, and Candice Odgers -- The evolution of battering interventions: from the Dark Ages into the scientific age / Julia C. Babcock, Brittany E. Canady, Katherine Graham, and Leslie Schart -- Gender-inclusive family interventions in domestic violence: an overview / John Hamel -- Violence risk assessments with perpetrators of intimate partner abuse / Tonia L. Nicholls, Sarah L. Desmarais, Kevin S. Douglas, and P. Randall Kropp -- Male victims of domestic violence / David L. Fontes -- Domestic violence in ethnocultural minority groups / Kathleen Malley-Morrison, Denise A. Hines, Doe West, Jesse J. Tauriac, and Mizuho Arai -- Systems considerations in working with court-ordered domestic violence offenders / Lonnie Hazlewood -- Treatment of a psychological and physical aggression in a couple context / K. Daniel O'Leary and Shiri Cohen -- Couple violence and couple safety: a systemic and attachment-oriented approach to working with complexity and uncertainty / Arlene Vetere and Jan Cooper -- Dangerous dances: treatment of domestic violence in same-sex couples / Vallerie E. Coleman -- Treatment of family violence: a systemic perspective / Michael Thomas -- Anger, aggression, domestic violence, and substance abuse / Ronald T. Potter-Efron -- Therapy with clients accused of domestic violence in disputed child custody cases / Michael Carolla -- Family therapy and interpersonal violence: targeting at-risk adolescent mothers / Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Lisa A. Turner, and Marilyn McGowan -- Family group therapy: a domestic violence program for youth and parents / Nancy Carole Rybski -- Family violence parent groups / L. Darlene Pratt and Tom Chapman -- Healing child victims and their parents in the aftermath of family violence / Christina M. Dalpiaz -- Gender-inclusive work with victims and their children in a coed shelter / Carol Ensign and Patricia Jones -- Justice is in the design: creating a restorative justice treatment model for domestic violence / Peggy Grauwiler, Nicole Pezold, and Linda G. Mills -- Domestic violence: new visions, new solutions / Cathy Young, Philip Cook, Sheila Smith, Jack Turteltaub, and Lonnie Hazelwood.