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Preventing Family Violence : A Multidisciplinary Approach /

Family violence, including intimate partner violence, elder abuse and child maltreatment, is a serious social problem that has been gaining public concern both in Chinese societies and around the globe over the past few decades. It is such a serious and complicated problem that any single discipline...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Otros Autores: Chan, Edward Ko Ling
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong, China : Hong Kong University Press, 2012
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • 1. The public health approach to the prevention of family violence in Hong Kong / Ko-Ling Chan
  • Pt. 1. Prevalence and risk factors. 2. Intimate partner violence in Hong Kong / Ko-Ling Chan; 3. Child abuse and child policy: Hong Kong's situation and global experience / Patrick P.K. Ip and Chun-Bong Chow; 4. Research on elder mistreatment in Chinese society: an update / Elsie Chau-Wai Yan; 5. Research instruments for domestic violence studies in Hong Kong / Daniel Yee-Tak Fong
  • Pt. 2. Legal perspective. 6. The laws against domestic violence and their reform, 2010 / Dennis Chi-Kuen Ho; 7. Best interests of the child: justification and limitation of corporal punishment by parents before the Hong Kong courts / Anne Shann-Yue Cheung
  • Pt. 3. Health perspective. 8. Multidisciplinary collaboration: ten years of research on domestic violence in Chinese pregnant women / Wing-Cheong Leung; 9. Domestic violence from a health perspective: impact and intervention / Agnes Tiwari; 10. Treatment and screening of intimate partner violence at a hospital's emergency department / Chak-Wah Kam, Terry Chu-Leung Lau, and Fung-Ling So
  • Pt. 4. Multidisciplinary approach to prevention. 11. Child maltreatment: child policy from a child's right perspective / Chun-Gong Chow and Patrick P.K. Ip; 12. Multidisciplinary case conference for child abuse and battered spouse cases / Anna Wai-Man Choi; 13. Multidisciplinary responce in domestic violence: how we started and where we are heading / Margaret Fung-Yee Wong
  • Index.