Survivors, Not Victims: Children of Murdered Parents

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Further Reading

• Burman, S., & Allen-Meares, P. (1994). Neglected Victims of Murder: Children's Witness to Parental Homicide. Social Work, 39 (1), 28-33.
  
  
• Harris-Hendriks, J.; Kaplan, T; & Black, D. (2000). When Father Kills Mother: Guiding Children Through Trauma and Grief. Oxford, UK: Routledge.
  
  
• Matthews, M.K. (2005, February 18). Deadly Consequences. Baltimore Sun, pp. 1E, 4E.
  
  
• Parker, B.; Steeves, R.; Anderson, S.; & Moran, B. (2004). Uxoricide: A Phenomenological Study of Adult Survivors. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 25, 133-145.

Resources

• Child Trauma Academy
   How Caregivers Can Help Children Exposed to Traumatic Death
  
  
• Homicide: Survivors/Covictims
  U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Victims of Crime
  
  
• National Center for Children Exposed to Violence
  877/49NCCEV
  Fax 203/785-4608
  E-mail nccev@info.med.yale.edu
  
  
• National Center for Victims of Crime
  800/FYI-CALL (394-2255)
  TTY 800/211-7996
  E-mail gethelp@ncvc.org
  
  
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network
  (a national coalition led by UCLA's National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress and the National Resource Center for Child Traumatic Stress at Duke University, and the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
  
  
• National Children's Alliance
  (the national coalition of Children's Advocacy Centers)
  516 C Street NE
  Washington DC 20002
  202/548-0090
  Fax 202/548-0099
  
  
• Parental Homicide Study
  University of Virginia, School of Nursing
  PO Box 800782
  Charlottesville VA 22908
  434/924-2744
  E-mail homicide-study@virginia.edu