August 3rd, 2011 (Wednesday)

1:15 - 4:30 pm

Choi Hall, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Social Service Building

28 West Pender Street, Vancouver

Family Poly-victimization: A New Paradigm of Investigation and its Implications to Intervention Seminar

Co-organized by S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and Unviersity of British Columbia of Social Work

Presenter:

Dr. Edward K.L. CHAN, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong

About the workshop:

Poly-victimization, which is defined as family members experiencing two or more different kinds of victimization in a single year, or repeated victimization of family members, is understudied.  Existing studies of family violence has been pragmatic.  Screening and risk assessment of family violence tends to be focusing exclusively on a single form of violence resulting in failing to early identify families-at-risk.  Studies on a single form of victimization have failed to obtain complete victimization profiles of children and have thus underestimated the impact of victimization that children experience.

Dr. Chan's on-going studies have examined the correlation of suicide and partner violence, the co-occurrence of partner violence and child abuse, in-law conflict and partner violence, as well as child maltreatment poly-victimization.  He further extends the scopes of the study to include partner violence, child abuse, elder abuse and in-law conflict in his current study of family poly-victimization in China.  Implications of studying family poly-victimization will be addressed in the presentation, including comprehensive risk assessment of multiple forms of family violence, and integrative familial approach of violence prevention.

About the presenter:

Dr. Edward Ko-ling CHAN obtained his doctoral degree and joined the faculty of the University of Hong Kong in 2000.  Dr. Chan is specialized in the research with family violence.  He has conducted high-impact, socially rlevant research on areas including intimate partner violence (IPV); narrative accounts by male batterers; pregnancy and violence; and child abuse, neglect and other forms of victimization.  In recent years, his work has focused on 3 major themes: (1) The development and translation of violence risk assessment tools; (2) Chinese cultural-specific risk factors for family violence; and (3) Family poly-victimization - Co-occuring forms of family violence.  Dr. Chan is the author of over 60 articles published in various peer-reviewed journals and has been awarded research grants of approximately CAD$3,000,000.  Dr. Chan is also active in research and teaching in Mainland China, with the mission to develop the profession of soical work and child protection in China.

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