Intimate Violence Across the Lifespan Interpersonal, Familial, and Cross-Generational Perspectives /

• Main Authors: Band-Winterstein, Tova (Author), Eisikovits, Zvi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Public health.; Geriatrics.; Social work.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.; Family.; Social Work.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Public Health.

Studies of family functioning as their members age, and of elder abuse at the hands of adult children or caregivers, are recent trends in gerontology. Yet the intersection of these two ideas—the impact of prolonged domestic abuse on elders and their families—has received scant notice. Similarly, que...