Latest Research

Family Law and Family Violence

• Austin, W. (2001, October). Partner violence and risk assessment in child custody evaluations.
  Family Court Review, 39 (4), 483-496.
• Davies, P., Winter, M., & Cicchetti, D. (2006). The implications of emotional security theory for understanding and treating childhood psychopathology.
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• Dutton, D., Corvo, K., & Hamel, J. (in press). The gender paradigm in domestic violenceresearch and practice, part II: The information website of the American Bar Association. Aggression and Violent Behavior.
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• Dutton, D. (2005). Domestic abuse assessment in child custody disputes: Beware the domestic violence research paradigm.
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• Gould, J., Martindale, D., & Eidman, M. (2007).  Assessing allegations of domestic violence.  Journal of Child Custody, 4(1/2).
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• Hamel, J. (2005). Domestic violence and child custody.
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• Johnston, J. (2001). Rethinking parental alienation and redesigning parent-child access services for children who resist or refuse visitation.
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• Johnston, J., Walters, M., & Olesen, N. (2005).  Is it alienating parenting, role eversal, or child abuse?  A study of children’s rejection of a parent in child custody disputes. Journal of Emotional Abuse, 4 (4), 191-218.
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• Moretti, M., Odgers, C., & Obsuth, I. (2006). Exposure to maternal versus paternal partner violence, PTSD and aggression in adolescent girls and boys.
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• Sedlak, A., & Broadhurst, D. (1996). Executive summary of the third national incidence study of child abuse and neglect. U.S. Dpt. of Health & Human Services. Available at:
  www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/statsinfo/nis3.cfm
• Slep, A., & O'Leary, S.G. (2005). Parent and partner violence in families with young children: rates, patterns, and connections.
  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73 (3), 435-444.
• U.S. Dpt. of Health & Human Services (2005). Child Maltreatment 2003.
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