Ep. 23 - Speaking Of: Jeff Edleson

Jeff L. Edleson
Jeffrey L. Edleson is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. He was appointed to the Harry & Riva Specht Chair in Publicly Supported Social Services in 2016 and served as Dean from August 1, 2012, to September 1, 2019. He spent 29 years on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Social Work and was Founding Director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse (MINCAVA).

Edleson is ranked as one of the world’s five top scholars studying domestic violence with a focus on children exposed to domestic violence. He has published over 130 articles and 12 books on domestic violence, groupwork, and program evaluation.

He has conducted intervention research and provided technical assistance to programs across North America as well as in numerous countries including Australia, Argentina, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Korea and Singapore. He was a member of the U.S. National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women and of the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention workshop planning committee. He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Panel on Research on Violence Against Women and served as a consultant to the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prof. Edleson is an Associate Editor of the journal Violence Against Women and has served on numerous editorial boards. He is Co-Editor of the Oxford University Press book series on Interpersonal Violence and the Sage book series on Violence Against Women.

He is the co-author with the late Susan Schechter of Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice (1999, co-authored with Susan Schechter, NCJFCJ), better known as the “Greenbook”.

His own books include:

• Working with Children and Adolescents in Groups (1987, with Sheldon D. Rose , Jossey-Bass);

• Intervention for Men who Batter: An Ecological Approach (1992, with Richard M. Tolman, Sage);

• Ending the Cycle of Violence: Community Responses to Children of Battered Women (1995, co-editors  Einat Peled and Peter G. Jaffe, Sage);

• Future Interventions with Battered Women and Their Families (1996, co-editor Zvi Eisikovits, Sage);

• Evaluating Domestic Violence Programs (1997, Domestic Abuse Project);
  Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children: The Future of Research, Intervention, and Social Policy (2001, co-editor Sandra Graham-Bermann, APA Books);

• Parenting by Men Who Batter Women: New Directions in Assessment and Intervention (2007, co-edited with Oliver J. Williams, Oxford University Press);

• The Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence (2008, co-editor Claire Renzetti,  Sage Reference);

• Companion Reader on Violence Against Women (2011, co-editors Claire Renzetti and Raquel Bergen, Sage)

• Battered Women, Their Children, and International Law: The Unintended Consequences of the Hague Child Abduction Convention (2012, with Taryn Lindhorst, Northeastern University Press); and

• The Sourcebook on Violence Against Women (2018, 3rd Edition, co-editors Claire Renzetti and Raquel Kennedy Bergen, Sage)

Prof. Edleson is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and received his Masters and Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has practiced in elementary and secondary schools and in several domestic violence agencies.

School of Social Welfare                                    
University of California                                              
120 Haviland Hall #7400                                           
Berkeley, CA 94720-7400

Phone: (510) 643-6664
Email: jedleson@berkeley.edu
Homepage: https://www.jedleson.com/

Referenced during the interview:
Group Treatment for Men Who Batter (1985)
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