Author: Michele A. Paludi
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: handbook, victimization, sexual, psychology
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-09-30
List price: $101.95
ISBN-10: 0313302480
ISBN-13: 9780313302480

A scholarly handbook focusing on variables that assist in confronting and preventing the forms of sexual victimization, i.e. rape, child abductions, battering, sexual harassment, and incest. Resources include parent and teacher training, public education and awareness, and psychotherapeutic techniques for families and friends of victims as well as the victims themselves.

Authors:Janet Mullings, James Marquart, Deborah Hartley,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: issues, emerging, children, victimization
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2004-09-16
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0789024063
ISBN-13: 9780789024060

Authors:TK Logan, Robert Walker, Carol E. Jordan, Carl G. Leu
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Keywords: interventions, implications, factors, contributing, victimization, women
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 2005-10
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1591473160
ISBN-13: 9781591473169

A definitive book providing a critical literature review, integrating and analyzing the widespread research on violence and victimization, mental health, and substance use among adult women. Draws from divergent findings to reveal a picture of complexity and of intertwining risk and resilience factors and to answer questions such as Why do some women develop serious mental health problems after victimization, like PTSD or depression, whereas others survive seemingly unscathed? Is depression in women a risk factor for victimization and substance abuse, or an outcome? A provocative and indisp

Authors:Betty B Rossman, Mindy S Rosenberg,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: research, treatment, issues, development, conceptual, victimization, children, multiple
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 1998-04-28
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0789003619
ISBN-13: 9780789003614

Mental health professionals who work with abused and neglected children have long recognized that their clients do not necessarily experience only one form of maltreatment; however, until now there was no single source for researchers and clinicians to refer to about the effects of multiple victimization on children’s development. Multiple Victimization of Children: Conceptual, Developmental, Research, and Treatment Issues fills the gap in the literature by bringing together theorists, researchers, and clinicians to present current theoretical models and address research and clinical issues

Authors:Charles A Maher, Joseph Zins, Maurice Elias,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: intervention, haworth, school, psychology, prevention, handbook, victimization, peer, harassment, bullying
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2006-12-27
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0789022192
ISBN-13: 9780789022196

A comprehensive examination of theory, research, prevention and intervention, and professional practice issues - in one source. Teasing, shunning, and bullying can have serious detrimental effects on both victim and perpetrator. Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment: A Handbook of Prevention and Intervention comprehensively gathers emerging research, theory, and effective practice on this subject into one invaluable source. This thorough review of a wide spectrum of innovative, evidence-based practices targets the complex problems of victimization, peer harassment, and bullying in our s

Author: Dieter Zapf University of Konstanz Germany; Heinz
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: journal, organizational, psychology, european, issue, special, work, issues, victimization, mobbing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1996-09-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0863779468
ISBN-13: 9780863779466

Mobbing bullying or harassment, a severe form of social stressor at work, has become a topic of widespread public interest in several European countries. Mobbing includes minor social conflicts such as socially isolating a person, rumours, or giving somebody a bad name, but also major conflicts like giving somebody no work, or work below or above his or her qualification, threats to kick somebody out of the firm, or threats of physical violence. Although mobbing is a very old phenomenon, it has not been described and systematically investigated until the early 1980s when Heinz Leymann started