<p>This reference work collates academic discourses and practices around family, gender, and violence in social work.&#xa0;</p><p>A huge body of discourse is available that categorizes and labels acts of violence, and correspondingly practices that pin blame/responsibility for the violence. These have led to evolution of intervention strategies to resolve or address the violence. Some explanations foreground systemic causes; others look at person-centric causes. The two views bring forth the fundamental ontological divide of structuralism and individualism. The question for social workers to debate is what to factor in while working with families experiencing violence and conflict. What amongst the person, the agency, or the structure needs to be addressed to understand the experience of families in conflict and violence? Are these positions supplementary, complementary, or to be understood reflexively? With the inclusion of new families, the parochial understanding of families has long been dislodged and given way to newer, radical, and contextual understanding of families. Similarly, different people, agencies, and states understand violence and conflict differently. Gender, too, has moved from the binaries of male and female to the gender-diverse LGBTQIA+ identities.&#xa0;</p><p>The book positions the ontological premise on which the epistemological practise is located. Simply put, the person-centric ontology on families and violence epistemologically finds understanding in agency-based approaches in individual agency, whereas the structure-based approaches find the experience of families and violence in society, state, and the world order. The contributors locate their work around identification, definition, an intervention or empirical study, policy analysis, historical evolution of concepts, and ontological and paradigmatic debates to position their individual chapters.</p><p><em>Family and Gendered Violence and Conflict:&#xa0;Pan-Continent Reach</em>&#xa0;provides a paradigmatic prism for practice for social workers who are equipped to interpret context differently. The differing and competing paradigmatic lenses cannot be mediated, resolved, or addressed, but they definitely can be understood and debated to provide a 360-degree lens on the issues of families in violence in the gendered context. The reference work is a useful resource for social work practitioners, educators, academicians, researchers, and other development professionals.</p><p>&#xa0;</p><ol> <li><strong>Social Work Perspectives and Interventions</strong></li></ol><ol> <li>Social Work Concepts, Theory, and Values in Practice with Family and Gendered Violence</li> <li>Gender-Sensitive and Culturally Responsive Services for Indian Immigrant Women Experiencing Domestic Violence: Centering Practitioners’ Perspectives in the United States</li> <li>A Syndemic Approach to Gender-Based Violence and Its Applications to Social Work Research and Practice</li> <li>Mitigating Family and Gender-Based Violence Through Parent Empowerment: A South African Perspective</li></ol><p>&#xa0;</p><ol> <li><strong>Legal, Policy and Institutional Responses to Family and Gender-Based Violence</strong></li></ol><ol> <li>Domestic Violence in Germany: Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention</li> <li>Domestic Violence in Turkey: Causes, Effects, and Proposed Solutions</li> <li>Gender-Based Violence and Public Policy in Putin’s Russia</li> <li>A Critical and Comparative Analysis of the Laws Pertaining to Intimate Partner Violence in Queensland (Australia) and Lagos (Nigeria)</li> <li>Legislation and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa: What Is the Problem Represented To Be?</li> <li>Critical Analysis on the Capacity of Law Enforcement Personnel to Respond to Gender-Based Violence in the Domestic Sphere in West Africa</li> <li>Women Hajj Pilgrims from India: Navigating Social, Legal, and Policy Challenges to Reclaim Public Spaces</li></ol><p>&#xa0;</p><ol> <li><strong>Impact of Covid-19 on Family and Gender-Based Violence</strong></li></ol><ol> <li>Family Violence in the Storm of COVID: The Story of Aotearoa New Zealand</li> <li>Impact of COVID-19 on Family Violence Among Marginalized Communities in the United States</li> <li>Kinships During Crises: A Case Study of Nachchi Sex Workers in Sri Lanka Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic</li></ol><p>&#xa0;</p><ol> <li><strong>Exploring </strong><strong>Family and Gender-Based Violence</strong><strong> from Diverse Contexts</strong></li></ol><ol> <li>Intersex Persons and Their Families in India: Critical Perspectives and Recommendations for Social Work Practice</li> <li>Resisting Intimate Partner Violence: The Lived Experiences of Women Tea Plantation Laborers of Durrung Tea Estate, Sonitpur District, Assam</li> <li>Reproductive Health Choices of Homeless Young Adults in Low-Income Settings and the Cyclical Implications of Gender-Based Violence in Ghana</li> <li>Violence Against Drug-Using Women in Intimate Partnerships</li> <li>Postseparation Contact Between Children and Their Violent Fathers: Whose Best Interest Is It?</li> <li>“He Did Exactly What They Probably Did to Him”: A Qualitative Study on Transgenerational Effects of Foster Care-Related Experiences of Violence</li> <li>Gender Violence, Family, and Conflict: A Cross-Comparative Study of the Contexts and Challenges in Africa and India</li> <li>Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in India</li></ol>