Jeffrey L. Edleson

Jeffrey L. Edleson is a Professor in the University of Minnesota School of Social Work and Director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (www.mincava.umn.edu).  He is one of the world’s leading authorities on children exposed to domestic violence and has published over 100 articles and eight books on domestic violence, groupwork, and program evaluation.  Prof. Edleson 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”, this best-practices guide has been the subject of six federally-funded and numerous other demonstration sites across the country. Prof. Edleson has also conducted intervention research and
provided technical assistance to domestic violence programs and research projects across North America as well as in several other countries including Germany, Israel, Cyprus, India, Australia, Korea and Singapore.

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Panel on Research on Violence Against Women.  He is a consultant to the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judge 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. 

His own books include:

• Working with Children and Adolescents in Groups, with Sheldon D. Rose (1987, Jossey-Bass);
• Intervention for Men who Batter: An Ecological Approach, with Richard M. Tolman (1992, Sage Publications);
• Ending the Cycle of Violence: Community Responses to Children of Battered Women, with Einat Peled and Peter G. Jaffe (1995, Sage Publications);
• Future Interventions with Battered Women and Their Families, with Zvi Eisikovits  (1996, Sage Publications);
• Evaluating Domestic Violence Programs (1997, Domestic Abuse Project);
• Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children: The Future of Research, Intervention, and Social Policy with Sandra Graham-Bermann (2001, APA Books); and
• Parenting by Men Who Batterer Women: New Directions in Assessment and Intervention with Oliver J. Williams (2007, Oxford University Press).

He is completing work on the multi-volume Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence (co-edited with Claire Renzetti, Sage Reference).

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 at Madison. He is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Minnesota and has practiced in elementary and secondary schools and in several domestic violence agencies worldwide.