Discusses the Shelter Parenting Program at the Battered Women Shelter in New Castle County, Delaware. This shelter-based program attempts to break the intergenerational cycle of family violence by combining an instructional group format on parenting skills with a series of individual and/or family sessions that apply these skills. Two case…

Now in a completely revised and updated third edition, this widely adopted casebook and text presents effective, creative approaches to helping children who have experienced such stressful situations as parental death or divorce, abuse and neglect, violence in the school or community, and natural disasters. While the book retains the focus on…