RE: Group Therapy Programs for Abused Children

["Anna Hagemeister" <AHAGEMEI@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Domestic Abuse Project's model for work with children who have witnessed domestic abuse. 
E. Peled & D. Davis (1995). Groupwork with children of battered women: A practitioners' manual. Sage
Publications (California, London, New Delhi). (US) $35.95  paperback.
Can be purchased via either DAP (www.domesticabuseproject.org) or Sage Publications (www.sagepublications.com) 
(DAP's website doesn't show up using the Navigator browser, but does fine in Explorer)
Anna 


Annelies Hagemeister, PhD, MSW
Link Project Coordinator, MINCAVA
www.mincava.umn.edu/link
School of Social Work
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN 55108
PH: 612-625-2216
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>>> ReimanB@WCMC.com 02/05/03 02:47PM >>>
Do you have any idea where this manual can be obtained? Thanks
Beth Reiman
Westchester Institute for Human Development

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Anna Hagemeister [SMTP:AHAGEMEI@che.umn.edu] 
> Sent:	Monday, February 03, 2003 7:22 PM
> To:	Child Maltreatment Researchers
> Subject:	Re: Group Therapy Programs for Abused Children
> 
> If it has not already been noted, check into the manual developed by the
> Domestic Abuse Project, Minneapolis, MN; E. Peled & D. Davis (1995).
> Groupwork with children of battered women: A practitioners' manual. Sage
> Publications. We're still using the model to this day. The same basic
> model has been used at the agency for about 15 years, now.
> A. Hagemeister
> St. Paul, MN
> 
> >>> BRubin525@aol.com 02/02/03 16:25 PM >>>
> I am currently looking for empirically validated (or just high quality) 
> treatment manuals that would allow us to provide groups for 1.  Physically
> 
> abused and neglected children      2.  Children in Foster Care 3.
> Children 
> exposed to Domestic Violence and 4.  Children of substance abusing
> parents.  
> These are often the same children.  I am really looking for group therapy 
> treatment manuals, however, I am also interested in what people have found
> 
> are the very best treatment articles that they know.
> I am the Director of a Child Abuse Treatment Program and we would like to 
> expand our services to include group treatment-however, I am not finding
> very 
> many useful treatment models.
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Bart Rubin, Ph.D.
> Alliant International University
> Center for Family Healing of the Family Institute of Pinole
> Berkeley, California 94564
>