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Family Violence Project

The Center’s Family Violence and Trauma Project (FVTP), operating for over ten years, provides support to the Army Community and Family Support Center Headquarters, Department of the Army Family, Advocacy Committee; the Family Advocacy Research Subcommitttee; Family Advocacy Program Managers; Chiefs of Social Work Services; and Army Social Workers in the form of briefings, papers, staff studies and a quarterly newsletter on the scientific and medical aspects of child and spouse abuse.

FVTP completed the only two empirical research studies of Family Violence and Deployment. These studies documented the importance of predeployment family violence as a risk factor for postdeployment family violence and the possible role of the “honeymoon phase” of troops returning home.

The FVTP’s research informs the Department of the Army and Department of Defense policy and community care. FVTP writes and publishes Joining Forces Joining Families, a quarterly newsletter that brings important research to the field. FVTP continues to add to its scientific literature database of family violence articles. This database is used for scientific reference to improve the development of family violence research protocols and to further the research education of military and civilian social workers. Click on the images below to download PDF copies of some recent newsletters.