Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children

SPECIAL PRESENTATION FOR SOCIAL WORK MONTH

Presenter: Jeffrey L. Edleson, MSSW, PhD

Moderator: Joan Berman, LCSW

Description: 

Prof. Edleson will review some of the basic research on children’s exposure to adult domestic violence, their involvement in these events and the level of known co-occurring child maltreatment and domestic violence in families. He will review trends in legislation and programs responding to these children and their families and draw on his four decades of extensive national and international work on changing policies and practices in response to children exposed to violence and their families. The impact of the pandemic and how it has affected children exposed to family violence will also be discussed.

Please note:  This workshop will not be recorded due to the confidential nature of the content.

Objectives

Participants will:

1. Identify how children experience adult domestic violence.
2. Point to research findings on the impact of such violence on children.
3. Recall how child welfare and domestic violence agencies can collaborate more successfully.
4. Identify at least three interventions with and/or issues in providing service to children and their parents.
5. Identify at least three ways that the pandemic has affected children exposed to domestic violence.

JEFFREY L EDLESON is the Harry and Riva Specht Chair in Publicly Supported Social Services in the School of Social Welfare and served as Dean from 2012 through August 2019. He was a professor of social work at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work for 29 years before joining Berkeley in 2012 and the founding director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse.

A leading expert in domestic violence, Dr. Edleson's current research examines the impact of adult violence on children and how social systems respond to these children. His work also focuses on international parental abduction in cases of domestic violence and the evaluation of interventions and policies on family violence. His body of publications comprises more than 130 articles and 12 books.

Dr. Edleson served as the President of the California Association of Deans and Directors (CADD) of Social Work Programs from 2017 to 2019. His other appointments included the National Institute of Justice Scientific Review Panel on Family Violence and Violence Against Women as well as the National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

This is a District Meeting coordinated by the Mid-Peninsula