Empowering Survivors of Abuse Health Care for Battered Women and Their Children

by Jacquelyn C. Campbell

• ISBN13: 9780761911227
• ISBN10: 0761911227
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-11
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

How can the health-care system be transformed from a site of further victimization to a place of sanctuary and empowerment for battered women and their children? This excellent compilation provides nurses, physicians, social workers and public health professionals with the skills needed to effectively intervene in cases of domestic violence.The volume contains original research together with clinical, policy and educational applications to give readers an understanding of abused women's experiences. Strategies for violence prevention, early identification, clinical interventions and policy reformation are among the vital topics covered by contributors who are directly involved, on a daily basis, with victims of interpersonal violence.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: SYSTEM CHANGE: POLICY AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION - Jacquelyn C Campbell

Making the Health Care System an Empowerment Zone for Battered Women

Health Consequences, Policy Recommendations,Introduction, and Overview - Daniel J Sheridan

Health Care-Based Programs for Domestic Violence Survivors - Debra Gay Anderson, Barbara J Limandri and Virginia P Tilden

Domestic Violence

Reconsideration of Ethical Issues in the Health Care System - Josephine Ryan and Christine King

Woman Abuse

Educational Strategies to Change Nursing Practice

PART TWO: DYNAMICS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - Karen M Landenburger

Exploration of Women's Identity

Clinical Approaches with Abused Women - Yvonne C Ulrich

What Helped Most in Leaving Spouse Abuse

Implications for Interventions

PART THREE: ABUSE AND PREGNANCY - Jacquelyn C Campbell, Catharine E Oliver and Linda F Bullock

The Dynamics of Battering during Pregnancy

Women's Explanations of Why - Jacquelyn C Campbell et al

Risk Factors of Femicide among Pregnant and NonPregnant Battered Women - Mary Ann Curry and S Marie Harvey

Stress Related to Domestic Violence during Pregnancy and Infant Birth weight - Linda F Bullock

Nursing Interventions for Abused Women on Obstetrical Units

PART FOUR: CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS - Janice Humphreys

Helping Battered Women Take Care of Their Children - Janet R Ericksen and Angela D Henderson

Diverging Realities

Abused Women and Their Children - Fay A Gary and Doris W Campbell

The Struggles of Runaway Youths

Violence and Abuse

PART FIVE: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS - M Christine King

Changing Women's Lives

The Primary Prevention of Violence against Women - Kathleen K Furniss

Screening for Abuse in the Clinical Setting - Karen L Soeken et al

The Abuse Assessment Screen

A Clinical Instrument to Measure Frequency, Severity and Perpetrator of Abuse against Women - Deborah Page-Adams and Susan Dersch

Assessing Physical and Nonphysical Abuse against Women in a Hospital Setting - Diane M Brockmeyer and Daniel J Sheridan

Domestic Violence

A Practical Guide to the Use of Forensic Evaluation in Clinical Examination and Documentation of Injuries

PART SIX: CULTURALLY SPECIFIC CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS - Doris W Campbell and Faye A Gary

Providing Effective Interventions for African American Battered Women

Afrocentric Perspectives - Diane K Bohn

Clinical Interventions with Native American Battered Women - Sara Torres

Intervening with Battered Hispanic Pregnant Women - Rachel Rodridguez

Clinical Interventions with Battered Migrant Farm Worker Women - Nancy Fishwick

Issues in Providing Care for Rural Battered Women