Keynote Presentation: Emerging Research, Policy and Practice with Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
Dr. Jeffrey Edleson

Dr. Edleson will review some of the basic research on children’s exposure to adult domestic violence, their involvement in these events and the level of known co-occurring child maltreatment and domestic violence in families. He will review recent trends in legislation and programs responding to these children and their families and draw on his work with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges’ guidelines published in Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy & Practice (commonly called the Greenbook) and the federally funded “Greenbook Initiative.”