Battered Women and Their Families: Intervention Strategies and Treatment Programs, Third Edition

Albert R. Roberts (DSW, PhD, BCETS, DACFE), is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Livingston College Campus, Rutgers--the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick and Piscataway, NJ. Dr. Roberts conducts seminars and teaches courses on research methods, crisis intervention and brief treatment, program evaluation, family violence intervention, adolescence, victimology, social policy, and juvenile justice. He previously taught at the Indiana University School of Social Work in Indianapolis. He received his doctorate in social work at the University of Maryland School of Social Work in 1978. Dr. Roberts is a Fellow of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, a lifetime member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and an active member of the National Association of Social Workers and the council on Social Work Education. Dr. Roberts is the founding editor of the Springer Series on Family Violence, which includes his edited classic text Battered Women and Their Families (Third Edition, 2007) and the Springer Series on Social Work. He edited the The Social Workers' Desk Reference, which has become a standard reference in the field since it was published in 2002, as well as the Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research, Third Edition. He is the current editor of the Journal Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention.