Safety Planning with Battered Women: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices

by Eleanor J. Lyon, Diane Monti-Catania, Jill M. Davies, et al.

Book Overview

Safety Planning with Battered Women introduces a new model of woman-defined advocacy that is designed to bridge the gap that sometimes occurs between a battered woman s perspective and a victim advocate s perception. Created to improve service delivery to women who are victims of domestic violence, this new model emphasizes placing attention on the victim s assessment of the risk in a violent relationship and in her decision making. Authors Jill...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076191224X
• ISBN13: 9780761912248
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"