Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse - Current Understandings in Research, Policy and Practice

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Amanda Holt is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Lancaster University. She has published widely in the fields of parenting, youth justice and families and employs a multi-disciplinary approach to her research and analysis. Klappentext This is the first academic book to focus on adolescent-to-parent abuse and brings together international research and practice literature and combines it with original research to identify and critique current understandings in research, policy and practice. "Amanda Holt has produced a compelling and pioneering study of an issue that is often overlooked. She shows how parent abuse can be better understood and, by situating its dynamic of intimate violence within a wider social and cultural context, she shows why it must be addressed more effectively."--Peter Squires, University of Brighton Zusammenfassung This is the first academic book to focus on adolescent-to-parent abuse and brings together international research and practice literature and combines it with original research to identify and critique current understandings in research! policy and practice.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Holt, Holt Amanda
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2013
• EAN: 9781447300564
• ISBN: 978-1-4473-0056-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)