Arnon Bentovim is a Director of Child and Family Training, and a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was formerly a Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and the Tavistock Clinic. He was also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, University College London.

The author describes the characteristics of these systems and a diagnostic procedure to help the workers plan the treatment. In order to help such a family, he proposes that interventions need to be made at the different levels of this system, and the book outlines various treatment approaches, such as group work for victims and perpetrators, marital and family therapy, and individual work, particularly to clarify the issue of personal responsibility. The book is illustrated by case studies and transcripts from therapy sessions to clarify the specific techniques Bentovim uses to treat such families.

• Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , The family as a violent institution: a sociological perspective , Family violence: explanatory models to describe violent and abusive families , Developing a social-interactional–systemic account of family violence , Family victimization processes and social-interaction explanations for family violence , A systematic account of the different trauma-organized systems in various forms of family violence , Trauma-organized systems: breaking the denial process by externalizing , A focal model to encompass the descriptions of the trauma-determined family system , Treating the trauma-organized system , The treatment process in trauma-organized systems

Arnon Bentovim is a Director of Child and Family Training, and a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was formerly a Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and the Tavistock Clinic. He was also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, University College London.

The author describes the characteristics of these systems and a diagnostic procedure to help the workers plan the treatment. In order to help such a family, he proposes that interventions need to be made at the different levels of this system, and the book outlines various treatment approaches, such as group work for victims and perpetrators, marital and family therapy, and individual work, particularly to clarify the issue of personal responsibility. The book is illustrated by case studies and transcripts from therapy sessions to clarify the specific techniques Bentovim uses to treat such families.

• Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , The family as a violent institution: a sociological perspective , Family violence: explanatory models to describe violent and abusive families , Developing a social-interactional–systemic account of family violence , Family victimization processes and social-interaction explanations for family violence , A systematic account of the different trauma-organized systems in various forms of family violence , Trauma-organized systems: breaking the denial process by externalizing , A focal model to encompass the descriptions of the trauma-determined family system , Treating the trauma-organized system , The treatment process in trauma-organized systems

Arnon Bentovim is a Director of Child and Family Training, and a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was formerly a Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and the Tavistock Clinic. He was also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, University College London.

The author describes the characteristics of these systems and a diagnostic procedure to help the workers plan the treatment. In order to help such a family, he proposes that interventions need to be made at the different levels of this system, and the book outlines various treatment approaches, such as group work for victims and perpetrators, marital and family therapy, and individual work, particularly to clarify the issue of personal responsibility. The book is illustrated by case studies and transcripts from therapy sessions to clarify the specific techniques Bentovim uses to treat such families.

• Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , The family as a violent institution: a sociological perspective , Family violence: explanatory models to describe violent and abusive families , Developing a social-interactional–systemic account of family violence , Family victimization processes and social-interaction explanations for family violence , A systematic account of the different trauma-organized systems in various forms of family violence , Trauma-organized systems: breaking the denial process by externalizing , A focal model to encompass the descriptions of the trauma-determined family system , Treating the trauma-organized system , The treatment process in trauma-organized systems