Family Problems and Family Violence: Reliable Assessment and the ICD-11

"This remarkable volume...is both conceptually robust and highly practicalvñThe book promises to heighten awareness among clinicians around the world about the diagnostic and therapeutic importance of family relationships in human health and disease. It also will serve as a roadmap for the critically important work that lies ahead."

v=David G. Addiss

Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership

Kalamazoo, MI

Family problems and family violence are major global concerns that have a vast impact on both psychological and physical health, and economic well-being. This text, the only book of its kind, describes recent innovations in defining and assessing family problems and family violence. It provides a framework for improving global assessment of relational processes as addressed in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).

The book includes a complete set of practical clinical and public health toolsv=easily implemented across a wide range of settingv=for defining, screening, and assessing family violence in accordance with these new definitions. It reviews the impact of family violence on all aspects of physical and mental health and economic well-being, including global considerations of cross-cultural relationship assessment, and provides recommendations for modifications and cross-cultural validation. The book is consistently organized for ease of use and consolidates ICD codes into four scientifically based categories: intimate partner violence, partner relationship distress, child maltreatment, and parent-child relation problems. Clinicians who assess and treat family violence and students and policymakers will benefit from several new state-of-the-art screening tools and structured interviews that can be easily administered in hospitals, clinics, and other health care settings. This text will also be an important addition to graduate training programs across many disciplines regarding the assessment of family maltreatment, parent-child problems, and relationship discord.

Key Features:

• Contains a wealth of current validated screening and interview tools that can be used in clinical or research settings
• Provides a global perspective on assessing and treating family violence
• Provides recommendations for surveillance of family problems and family violence addressed in the ICD-11
• Highlights the implications of relational problems for mental and physical health and economic well-being in a global context

Heather Foran, PhD, is the principal investigator of a project on couple functioning and psychopathology funded by the German Research Foundation at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany and a part-time consultant for the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

Dr. Beach, PhD, is a faculty member in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Georgia and a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience investigating the role of social relationships in the development and maintenance of psychopathology, particularly depression and substance use disorders. He currently serves as Director of the William A. and Barbara R. Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, an interdisciplinary research institute.

Amy M. Smith Slep, PhD, co-founded and co-directs the Family Translational Research Group.

Dr. Heyman, PhD, is Professor at New York University. Dr. Heyman co-directs the Family Translational Research Group in the Department of Cariology and Comprehensive Care.

Marianne Wamboldt, MD is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, as well as Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children's Hospital Colorado.