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Battered Women's Protective Strategies : Stronger Than You Know by Sherry Hamby (2013, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199873658

ISBN-139780199873654

eBay Product ID (ePID)166404155

Product Key Features

Book TitleBattered Women's Protective Strategies : Stronger than You Know

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

TopicSocial Work, Abuse / General, Abuse

IllustratorYes

GenreFamily & Relationships, Social Science, Self-Help

AuthorSherry Hamby

Book SeriesInterpersonal Violence Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight16.8 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2013-012788

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal362.82920973

Table Of Content1. Introduction: A Re-Framing of Stereotypes of Battered Women2. A Holistic Approach to the Complex Problem of Battering3. Protective Strategies in the Context of Battered Women's True Risk Burden: The Multitude of Risks Batterers Can Create4. Understanding the Full Context of Violence: Financial and Institutional Issues that Constrain Coping5. Social Issues, Practical Concerns, and Personal Values that Influence Coping Strategies6. Immediate Situational Strategies7. Protecting Children, Family, Friends, Co-Workers and Pets8. Reaching Out for Social Support and Navigating the Challenges of Information Management9. Turning to Spiritual and Religious Resources10. Using Formal Services11. Invisible Strategies12. Bringing a More Holistic Approach to Services and Tools for Intervention13. Conclusion: Recognizing Protective Strategies Can Create ProgressReferencesIndex

SynopsisThis provocative book presents a strengths-based framework that challenges negative stereotypes about battered women. This volume also outlines ways to improve research, risk assessment, and safety planning., Battered Women's Protective Strategies: Stronger Than You Know challenges the pervasive stereotypes that depict battered women as passive and shows how to use the strength of battered women to create better and more nuanced research and intervention. Through an alternative strengths-based framework, Hamby deftly illustrates how battered women are in fact not passive and in denial but are active and diligent in protecting themselves and their loved ones. In addition to the traditional risks of being battered, many women who experience abuse face the risk of homelessness or the threat of losing custody of their children in a divorce battle. Understanding the full range of risks is necessary to understanding the complex problem of battering, and in this book, quantitative, qualitative, and clinical data reveal a wide range of protective strategies: immediate defensive responses in the moments following an attack, protecting children and other loved ones, reaching out for social support, turning to religious and spiritual resources, and engaging formal helpseeking. Using an approach called Multiple Criteria Decision Making, this book outlines a procedure for comprehensive risk assessment, safety planning, and risk management. Many, many strategies are still largely invisible to providers and researchers, and the steps that women take that receive very little attention or acknowledgement in the domestic violence field. The author identifies the vital role that researchers can play by simply acknowledging the variety of approaches that battered women employ. In this book's two new studies, survivors of domestic violence identify 133 different protective strategies in open-ended questions. These and other insights from survivor testimony make this volume the largest and most comprehensive review of battered women's strengths to date., This provocative book challenges the pervasive stereotypes that depict battered women as passive and presents an alternative strengths-based framework. Battered women are not passive and in denial; they act to protect themselves and their loved ones in many ways. Many women who experience abuse are facing numerous other risks, such as the risk of homelessness or the threat of losing custody of their children in a divorce battle. Understanding the full range of risks is necessary to understanding the complex problem of battering. Using an approach called Multiple Criteria Decision Making, this book outlines a procedure for comprehensive risk assessment, safety planning and risk management. One key step is recognizing all of the protective strategies that battered women routinely use. Quantitative, qualitative, and clinical data reveal a wide range of protective strategies: immediate defensive responses in the moments following an attack, protecting children and other loved ones, reaching out for social support, turning to religious and spiritual resources and engaging formal helpseeking. There are many, many strategies that are still largely invisible to providers and researchers-steps women take that receive very little attention or acknowledgement in the domestic violence field. In two new studies, survivors of domestic violence identified 133 different protective strategies in open-ended questions. These and other insights from survivors are included throughout the book. This book shows how to use the strength of battered women to create better and more nuanced research and intervention.

LC Classification NumberHV6626.2.H358 2014