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Seeing the Forest in Family Violence Research: Moving to a Family-Centered Approach
Victims of family violence are sorted into fragmented systems that fail to address the family as an integrated unit. Each system provides specialized care to each type of victim (child, older adult, adult, animal) and centers on the expertise of the medical and service providers involved. Similarly, researchers commonly study abuse from the frame of the victim, rather than looking at a broader frame—the family. We propose the following 5 steps to create a research paradigm to holistically address the response, recognition, and prevention of family violence.
Source: Academic Pediatrics