Journey Beyond Abuse

by Fischer, Kay-Laurel; McGrane, Michael F.

• ISBN13: 9780940069145
• ISBN10: 0940069148
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Fieldstone Alliance

Summary

Create compelling women's groups that deal effectively with domestic abuse Journey Beyond Abuse and its accompanying participant's journal, Moving Beyond Abuse, give you complete tools for facilitating a powerful group with life-changing results. Used together, these unique books can help you create a program where women increase their understanding of the dynamics of abuse, feel less alone and isolated, feel empowered to make positive choices, and have a greater awareness to channels of safety. Adapt this flexible program to your group's specific needs No two groups are the same. Journey Beyond Abuse gives you twenty-one group sessions, which you can combine to create groups of differing length and focus. The sessions are based on the successful program developed by the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation which had been used with more than 1,200 women. You'll get detailed instructions on how to facilitate each session including its goals, format, activities, and important issues that the session raises for both the participants and facilitators. This practical guide also includes an overview of the history, philosophy, and goals of this model and how to best use the program; information and tips on how to handle 28 special issues such as child care, safety and protection, and substance abuse; facilitation techniques, cofacilitation, intake and individual counseling, and recommended policies and procedures; useful appendices including reproducible forms such as a women's domestic abuse summary sheet, her goals and strengths, self-care plan; and much more.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	iv	(1)
About the Program	v	(1)
Acknowledgements	vi	(3)
Preface	ix
OVERVIEW	1	(50)
How to Use the Guidebook	1	(3)
How the Program Works	4	(2)
Using the Activities	6	(2)
Unique Aspects of Women Participants	8	(3)
Facilitation Techniques and Standard Group Format	11	(9)
Using the Guided Journal	20	(1)
Intake and Individual Counseling	21	(4)
Recommended Policies and Practices	25	(2)
Special Issues	27	(22)
Group Evaluations	49	(2)
GROUP SESSIONS	51	(119)
Cluster 1 Essential Beginnings	51	(36)
Introduction to Group	52	(9)
Defining Abuse	61	(7)
Patterns of Abuse	68	(5)
What Keeps Women in Abusive Relationships?	73	(4)
Emotional Abuse	77	(5)
Anger about Abuse	82	(5)
Cluster 2 Understanding the Impact of Abuse	87	(22)
Most Hurtful Incident	88	(5)
Impact of Negative Messages	93	(4)
Common Experiences of Battered Women	97	(6)
Impact of Abuse on Children	103	(6)
Cluster 3 Abuse-Related Issues for Women	109	(24)
Assertiveness	110	(6)
Boundaries	116	(7)
Women and Sexuality	123	(4)
Questions about Men Who Batter	127	(6)
Cluster 4 Common Responses to Abuse Experiences	133	(16)
Shame and Guilt	134	(5)
Grief and Loss	139	(5)
Depression	144	(5)
Cluster 5 Looking Towards the Future	149	(14)
Self-Care	150	(4)
Healthy Relationships	154	(4)
Evaluating New Relationships	158	(5)
Cluster 6 Closure to the Group	163	(7)
Closing Session	164	(6)
APPENDICES	170
Appendix A: Group Definitions of Abuse	170	(1)
Appendix B: What Keeps Women in Abusive Relationships	171	(1)
Appendix C: Feelings Vocabulary	172	(1)
Appendix D: Women's Intake Questionnaire10	173	(2)
Appendix E: Women's Domestic Abuse Summary Sheet	175	(4)
Appendix F: Goals and Strengths	179	(1)
Appendix G: Forms	180
Weekly Evaluation	181	(1)
Mid-Term Evaluation	182	(1)
Final Evaluation	183	(2)
House of Abuse	185	(1)
Emotional Abuse Checklist	186	(1)
Assertiveness Situations	187	(1)
Assertiveness Exercise	188	(1)
Sample Self-Care Plan	189	(1)
Self-Care Plan	190	(1)
Early Warning Signs	191	(1)
Your Strengths	192