Where do we go from here? Moving toward an integrated approach to family violence

This article discusses patterns across reviews of the risk and protective f actors for each of seven forms of family violence: partner physical, psycho logical, and sexual abuse; child physical, psychological, and sexual abuse and child neglect. We note that both child and partner literatures have lar ge research bases on risk factors for physical abuse, but relatively few ar ticles on psychological or sexual abuse (or child neglect). In addition, co -occurrence of forms of maltreatment within families is high, but little in tegrative work has been conducted. We argue that the overlap of both occurr ence and risk factors across forms of maltreatment suggests that both etiol ogical and intervention models would be improved by considering all forms o f maltreatment more explicitly in a family (rather than dyadic) context. (C ) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.