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Showing 1 to 20 of 504 for “"domestic violence"”.
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Domestic Violence Advocacy
… type of intervention to help intimate partner or domestic violence survivors. Little is known the best practices for social workers and other helping professionals to assist survivors of domestic violence who present for services at shelters, non-residential outreach, and legal settings. This …
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Deconstructing domestic violence policy
… are to, circularly, deconstruct contemporary domestic violence policy while developing and evaluating methods for deconstructing policy. Policy is theorised as a discursive practice, which allows a variety of policies to be compared and critiqued by how they position the people they affect. …
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Domestic Violence Court Intervention Project
… research study examines the effectiveness of two domestic violence interventions to increase shelter use among women in a court advocacy program in upstate New York. The study found a significant advantage to offering a brief counseling component during an intervention, as opposed to only handing …
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Effects of domestic violence on children
… the experiences of five children who witnessed domestic violence and the resultant psychological distress experiences by these children. The study was conducted within a phenomenological framework and used in-depth interviews with the children and caregivers. The data gleaned from the interviews …
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An Ethnographic Study of Domestic Violence
Domestic violence impacts the lives of millions of Americans each year. Although theories on the causes of domestic violence abound, little is known about the context in which domestic violence occurs. As a result, our understanding of the factors which increase the risk of domestic violence is …
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Fighting the Invisibility of Domestic Violence
<p>Analyzing the invisibility of domestic violence in New York City as 32% of women in the city experience intimate partner physical violence. In this project, domestic violence refers to all different kinds of violence that occur in a home between all the members who live there regardless of …
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Teenagers' Experiences of Domestic Violence Refuges
Refuges have been central to UK domestic violence service provision since the 1970s. Early studies focused on the needs of adult women but increasingly, children and teenagers have also become the business of refuges. Much of the existing research regarding users’ experiences of refuges has, …
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Domestic violence counseling techniques: Indicators of a change in the philosophy of the movement against domestic violence
The movement against domestic violence began as a grassroots effort to eliminate and to prevent the abuse of women. In the beginning, workers in the movement placed great emphasis on societal causes and solutions to the problem and great strides have been taken toward this end. However, over the …
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The Domestic Violence Act (116 of 1998) : increased safety for women experiencing domestic violence in South Africa?
Includes bibliographical references.
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A qualitative study of women perpetrators of domestic violence: comparison with literature on men perpetrators of domestic violence
… examines the difference between male and female domestic violence offenders. An overview of the literature includes a discussion of the controversies surrounding the prevalence of female domestic violence offenses, and a discussion of theories of the underlying causes of domestic violence …
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Domestic violence : treatment within a therapeutic community
… intervention for up to twelve men who engage in domestic violence. This research was a qualitative programme evaluation of the processes used within the Breathing Space therapeutic community. Observations and interviews were conducted on ten residents and eight staff. Positive findings revealed …
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Women, pregnancy, and domestic violence in Spain
Intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy is a widespread global social and health problem. Perpetrators of IPV violate women's human rights and their unborn children. While a large amount of research has been conducted aimed at increasing our understanding of IPV, the majority of this …
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Effective Methods to Reach Victims of Domestic Violence
… a variety of methods to reach victims of domestic violence. To provide a basic understanding of domestic violence in the United States is presented, various definitions of domestic violence are discussed and the history of domestic violence in the United States is explored. The study …
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Southeast Asian Immigrant Women's Perspectives on Domestic Violence
… women who live in the United States related to domestic violence, including the relationships with their partners, their knowledge of domestic violence, and the existence of domestic violence in the Asian community?" Fourteen Thai women engaged in semistructured interviews during which they were …
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Domestic Violence Study for Counselor Education Masters Students
The issue of domestic violence continues to be of great concern to society. It is crucial counselors have an understanding of dynamics of domestic violence and the impact it has on victims. Even with heightened awareness of the past decade, the issue continues to be misunderstood, missed altogether …
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The Lived Experience of Women Domestic Violence Survivors
… the lived experience of adult women survivors of domestic violence. Self-identified domestic violence survivors (N=3) participated in non-structured self-written interviews submitted by email to the researcher. The stories were analyzed by the researcher and a member of her thesis committee using …
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Identity Construction and Maintenance in Domestic Violence Shelters
… with a diminished self-concept. As a result, domestic violence shelters have been recognized as sites of identity repair and construction, as well as an emergency refuge for women and their children. However, shelters are microcosms of the larger society, and the inequality and bureaucracy …
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The Construction of Domestic Violence Among Police Officers
… dramatic changes in their response to domestic violence. The purpose of this study is to examine police officers constructions of domestic violence. I argue that officers' interpretations of domestic violence are influenced by their personal lived experiences, prejudices, occupational …
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