Working with women who have experienced domestic violence
Feminist Counselling in Action (1999)
Jocelyn Chaplin
Sage Publications Ltd; ISBN: 0761963111
Feminist Counselling in Action shows how the feminist approach can be integrated into the counselling process, and how feminist ways of thinking can be applied to a range of counselling techniques. Jocelyn Chaplin presents a model of counselling that is designed to promote self-confidence and to enable clients to be more in control of their own lives. In this model the counsellor is not the expert or the doctor and the client is not a patient. Rather, they are two different people using "clues" to explore the life of the client. Feminist Counselling in Action is illustrated throughout with vivid case examples.
Responding to domestic abuse: A handbook for health professionals
Department of Health 2005
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Assessing Woman Battering in Mental Health Services (1997)
Gondolf
Sage Publications Inc (USA); ISBN: 0761911081
A guide to help mental health professionals improve the response to women who have been battered elsewhere.
From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers - Southall Black Sisters (2003)
Gupta (Editor)
Zed Books ISBN 1-84277-441-7
Against all the odds, a poorly funded, radical women's group - Southall Black Sisters - has become synonymous with black British feminism over the last twenty one years.
This important anthology makes the connection between race, gender and class and ensures that a neglected area of current feminist debate is not lost to history through a failure to record insights gained in the heat of activism.
Pregnant Women: Violent Men (2000)
Hunt & Martin
Midwives work at the very heart of our society, sharing in women's lives at a crucial and sensitive stage. Midwives need to recognise the issue of domestic violence as well as understand the many complex causes. Can midwives do anything to help a woman who has been, or is currently, in a violent relationship? If they can, should they? This book aims to answer these questions.
Women's Experience of Feminist Therapy and Counselling (1994)
Eileen McLeod
Open University Press; ISBN: 0335192211
Eileen McLeod's analysis presents women participants' own experiences and views. These constitute a critique of the impact of social inequalities on personal relationships and of the theory and practice of feminist therapy and counselling. This critique argues that: taking account of women's differential experience - of ageism, heterosexism, racism, disablism and poverty, is essential to understanding the state of their emotional wellbeing; women should not be characterized as psychological victims, but recognized as retaining a capacity for self-expressive, assertive and also dominating behaviour; feminist therapy and counselling can promote women's emotional wellbeing, but only to the extent that it offers an experience of relative freedom from subordination; and initiatives beyond therapy and counselling - tackling a range of social inequalities - are also essential to realizing women's emotional wellbeing.
Counseling to End Violence Against Women A Subversive Model (1996)
Whalen
Sage Publications Inc (USA); ISBN: 0803973799
Responds to the failure of traditional counseling methods to engender social change relating to violence against women, by proposing a model that draws from radical feminist theory as well as counseling practice.