Using the Grand Challenge to Build Healthy Relationships to End Violence as a foundation, this special issue of Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services elevates promising research led or informed by social work that centers healthy relationships as a key element in reducing or preventing violence in ways that are fair, respectful, and culturally responsive. Three of the network co-leads for the Grand Challenge to Build Healthy Relationships to End Violence were editors of this special issue– Megan Holmes, PhD, MSW, Case Reserve Western University; Richard Barth, PhD, MSW, University of Maryland, past Chair of the GCSW Executive Committee; and Samuel Aymer, PhD, MSW, City University of New York.
Read the Introduction to the Special Issue.
Articles expected to be included (links will be added as the articles are released):
- Restorative Justice in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence in the United States: A Metasynthesis by Sarah Balser, Ashley Withrow, Liat R. Johnson, and Caroline Duke Chaikin
- “We’re Not Miracle Workers”: An Examination of the Relationship Between Community Violence Intervention Workers and Their Participants by Kathryn Bocanegra and Nathan Aguilar
- The Role of Parent-Adolescent Communication Among Youth Exposed to Neighborhood Violence in Rural Mexico by Andrea S. Mora, Lorraine M. Gutiérrez, and Rosario Ceballo
- Strengthening Relationships: Children’s Participation in a Family Group Approach to Family Violence by Joan Pennell, Kristen Basque, Ruth Najenson, Paul Nixon, and Sharon Inglis
- Theories of Relational Health in Interpersonal Violence Research: A Scoping Review by Emily K. Miller, Braveheart Gillani, and Kari A. O’Donnell
- Closure for Survivors of Abusive Relationships by Colleen Friend and Julie Robbins
- A Qualitative Exploration of Sibling Relationship Quality Among Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence”
- Tri-Thrive Model: A new conceptual model of healthy relationships and initial results from a feasibility pilot study with college students
- Building Multiple Pathway to Healing, Safety, and Accountability to Address Intimate Partner Violence
- The Power of Language to Transform Efforts to Address Intimate Partner Violence: Tensions in the Field and Pathways Forward by Laurie M. Graham, Marcela Sarmiento Mellinger, Richard P. Barth, Tina Jiwatram-Negrón, Bernadine Y. Waller, Jill T. Messing, Chantel R. Bennett, and April Cavaletto
- Using simulation to train social work students and new practitioners in trauma and intimate partner violence (IPV)