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Safety Planning with Battered Women
Complex Lives/Difficult Choices
- Jill Davies - Greater Hartford Legal Aid, Inc. (GHLA)
- Eleanor Lyon
- Diane Monti-Catania - The Advocacy Institute, Brookfield, Connecticut
March 1998 | 216 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Drawing attention to the complexity of helping battered women and their children, this volume introduces a new model of `women-defined' advocacy.
The model emphasizes: understanding a battered woman's perspective, including her risk analysis and safety plan; building partnerships with battered women; and systems advocacy. It seeks to craft courses of action that will enhance women's safety given their individual realities - which might include, for example, a woman deciding to remain temporarily in an abusive relationship.
Introduction
PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING BATTERED WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVES
Creating the Image of Battered Women
Batterer-Generated Risks
Life-Generated Risks
Battered Women's Decision-Making and Safety Plans
PART TWO: BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS WITH BATTERED WOMEN
Risk Analysis
Safety Planning with Battered Women
PART THREE: SYSTEMS ADVOCACY
Toward a Woman-Defined Advocacy Environment
Women-Defined Policy Advocacy
Conclusion
