With considerable literature establishing how
separate types of violence disrupt the lives of children, there is emerging interest in examining violence across multiple interpersonal domains.
It is specifically designed to improve the emotional, social, academic, and behavioral functioning
of adolescents exposed to chronic interpersonal trauma (such as ongoing physical abuse) and / or
separate types of trauma (e.g., community
violence, sexual assault).
The JVQ is a comprehensive instrument designed to screen for a wide range
of victimization events, covering such general areas
of concern as physical assault, property victimization, child maltreatment, peer and sibling victimization, sexual victimization, witnessing
violence, and indirect exposure to
violence.12 Both surveys asked the same questions about 34
separate victimization
types and collected similar demographic and background information.