Preventing family violence : a multidisciplinary approach / edited by Ko-Ling Chan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The public health approach to the prevention of family violence in Hong Kong / Ko-Ling Chan -- Intimate partner violence in Hong Kong / Ko-Ling Chan -- Child abuse and child policy : Hong Kong's situation and global experience / Patrick P.K. Ip and Chun-Bong Chow -- Research on elder mistreatment in Chinese society : an update / Elsie Chau-Wai Yan -- Research instruments for domestic violence studies in Hong Kong / Daniel Yee-Tak Fong -- The laws against domestic violence and their reform, 2010 / Dennis Chi-Kuen Ho -- Best interests of the child : justification and limitation of corporal punishment by parents before the Hong Kong courts / Anne Shann-Yue Cheung -- Multidisciplinary collaboration : ten years of research on domestic violence in Chinese pregnant women / Wing-Cheong Leung -- Domestic violence from a health perspective : impact and intervention / Agnes Tiwari -- Treatment and screening of intimate partner violence at a hospital's emergency department / Chak-Wah Kam, Terry Chu-Leung Lau, and Fung-Ling So -- Child maltreatment : child policy from a child's right perspective / Chun-Bong Chow and Patrick P.K. Ip -- Multidisciplinary case conference for child abuse and battered spouse cases /Anna Wai-Man Choi -- Multidisciplinary response in domestic violence : how we started and where we are heading / Margaret Fung-Yee Wong.

Family violence, including intimate partner violence, elder abuse and child maltreatment, is a serious social problem that has been gaining public concern both in Chinese societies and around the globe over the past few decades. It is such a serious and complicated problem that any single discipline can only portray a small piece of the big picture. Family violence not only influences one's physical and mental health, but it also has profound effects on one's social functioning, welfare, and legal status. Fragmented approaches to the formulation of preventive strategies may only touch on the surface of individual disciplines, and therefore hamper their overall effectiveness. Integrated approaches that involve multiple disciplines appear to be more effective in tackling the problem, although they are sadly lacking to date. This book stems from the synergistic effort in the symposium. Almost all the speakers, as well as some professionals who newly joined in the undertaking, contributed to its chapters.