2042.0 Increasing Family Violence Prevention Efforts through Targeted Strategies for Children and Families

Sunday, November 4, 2007: 4:30 PM
Poster
This session will explore the unique issues present for children exposed to family violence. It will also describe the unique effects of family violence on the developmental experiences of children and challenge the attendees to assess the effectiveness of current and developed strategies that expressly mediate the effects of family violence on children in the context of safety for all.
Session Objectives: 1. Identify and learn about risk factors present when children live in an environment where family violence occurs. 2. Describe the unique challenges faced by children whose home environments experience family violence. 3. Assess the effectiveness of interventions developed to mediate the effects of family violence for children.

Board 1
Perinatal violence and perversion and a role for public health
Michael Durfee, MD
Board 2
Home environment and outcomes of young maltreated children
Lara R. Robinson, Phd MPH, Neil Boris, MD, Sherryl Scott Heller, PhD, Charles H. Zeanah, MD, Cinda Clark, MSW and Shantice D. Hawkins, MPH
  
Board 3
Improving quality assurance when implementing and evaluating an evidence-based intervention in a community setting: Safe Start Promising Approaches Initiative
Joie D. Acosta, PhD, Yvette Lamb, PhD, Lisa Jaycox, PhD and Dana Schultz, PhD
     
Board 4
Emotional distress and perception of risk for violent behaviors by adults caring for family members with Huntington Disease in their homes
Janet K. Williams, PhD, RN, FAAN, J. Jackson Barnette, PhD, Toni Tripp-Reimer, RN, PhD, FAAN, Jane S. Paulsen, PhD, Elizabeth Penziner, MA, MPH and Meghan L. McGonigal-Kenney
Board 5
Dissemination of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Out of the university and into the community
Alissa Porter, MS, CHES, Susan Timmer, PhD, Anthony Urquiza, PhD and Lindsay Klisanac
Board 6
Teen dating violence: Investigating individual, family and peer influences
Manuel Angeles, MS and Audrey Hokoda, PhD
Board 7
Preventing firearm violence among victims of intimate partner violence: An evaluation of a new North Carolina law
Kathryn E. Moracco, PhD, MPH, Kathryn Anderson Clark, PhD, Christina Espersen, BS and J. Michael Bowling, PhD
  
Board 8
Communicating empirically-based information about risks and protection strategies to survivors of intimate partner violence
Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH, Patricia Mahoney, MA, Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN and Susan Ghanbarpour, MA

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: APHA-Family Violence Prevention Forum
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

See more of: APHA-Family Violence Prevention Forum
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