Daniel (Dan) G. Saunders
Professor of Social Work
Daniel (Dan) G. Saunders
Degrees
- BA, Psychology, 1969, St. John's University, Collegeville, MN;
- MSW, Social Work, 1973, University of Wisconsin, Madison;
- PhD, Counseling and Guidance, 1979, University of Wisconsin, Madison
BioSketch
Daniel Saunders is professor of social work and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Research Program on Violence Across the Lifespan. He established one of our nation's first intervention programs for men who batter and helped to establish crisis and advocacy programs for battered women in the 1970s. His research, teaching, and service center on the problem of dating and domestic violence. His specific studies focus on offender and supervised visitation program evaluations, the traumatic effects of victimization, and the responses of professionals and the public to dating and domestic violence. His research has been funded by the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Department of Defense. He consults regularly for local, state, and national agencies, including the Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board, the Department of Defense, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the National Institute of Justice, and the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Child Custody and Visitation Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases  Publications on Domestic Violence Inventory of Beliefs About Wife Beating (short version) Inventory of Beliefs About Wife Beating (long version) Studies that Used the Inventory of Beliefs About WifeBeating Interdisciplinary Research Program on Violence Across the Lifespan  Violence Against Women - Synthesis of Research on Offender Interventions Profile of Psychological Abuse of Women Inventory of Beliefs About Wife Beating - scoring Measures for Assessment and Evaluation in Supervised Visitation and Exchange Programs Report to Congress - Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Programs http://www.ssw.umich.edu/about/profiles/saunddan/WhenBatteredWomenLoseCustody.pdf
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University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 S. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
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Selected Publications
| Saunders, D. G. (in press). Programs for men who batter. In E. Buzawa & E. Stark (Eds). Interpersonal violence. Praeger/Greenwood. |
| Saunders, D. G. (2008). Personality characteristics of batterers. In C. Renzetti & J. Edleson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of interpersonal violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. |
| Saunders, D. G. (2008). Anger management. In C. Renzetti & J. Edleson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of interpersonal violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. |
| Black, B. M., Tolman, R. M., Callahan, M., Saunders, D. G., & Weisz, A. (2008). When will adolescents tell someone about dating violence victimization? Violence Against Women, 14, 741-758. |
| Saunders, D. G. (2008). Group interventions for men who batter: A summary of program descriptions and research. Violence & Victims, 23, 156-172. |
| Anderson, D. K., & Saunders, D. G. (2007). The postseparation psychological recovery of domestic abuse survivors. In K. Kendall-Tackett & S. M. Giacomoni (Eds.), Intimate partner violence (pp. 29-1--29-17). Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute. |
| Saunders, D. G. (2007). Child custody and visitation decisions in domestic violence cases: Legal trends, research findings, and recommendations. VAWnet: National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. |
| Saunders, D. G., Pahl, L., Holter, M., & Tolman, R. M. (2006). Welfare workers' responses to domestic violence cases: The effects of training and worker characteristics. Families in Society, 87(3), 329-339. |