Safety Planning with Battered Women: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices

by Jill M. Davies

Drawing attention to the complexity of helping battered women and their children, this volume introduces a new model of `women-defined′ advocacy. The model 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology

216 pages, Paperback

First published February 12, 1998

Reviews

[Janice · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book took me a lot longer to get through than I would have thought. I think because I could only read it in parts and pieces since I work in this field all the time and because when I was reading this, some parts of my own past were coming into play and I had to step back. It's a well written book, with a truly good message for anyone in the social services area. Take the time to consider if you're client or service user driven or if you're service driven -there is a big difference!!! I really enjoyed the advice on advocacy policy towards the end of the book and learned a lot. If you're an advocate or caregiver - this is a good read and would be a great addition to a social service agency's internal library for reference and staff refresher.