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Pattern Changing for Abused Women
An Educational Program
- Marilyn Shear Goodman - Women's Resource Center of South County, Wakefield
- Beth Creager Fallon - Women's Resource Center of South County, Wakefield
July 2012 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Designed for facilitators of groups for physically, emotionally and sexually abused women, this volume examines a programme that focuses on the woman herself and her power to change the course of her life. The book is based on the accumulated experience of the authors and their continuing evaluation of groups they have facilitated over the past eight years. Both material for clients and easy-to-follow scripts for group leaders are included.
Educational rather than therapeutic, the programme includes sessions on family roles, boundaries, feelings and assertiveness skills. It is designed to enable abused women to: understand the problem and reality of abuse for the entire family; set realistic goals; become aware of lifelong patterns which can change; and learn techniques for developing new patterns of their own choosing.
Richard J Gelles
Foreword
Introduction
Overview of Boundary Setting Using Assertiveness Skills
First Things First
Common Threads
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Format of the Sessions
SESSIONS ONE TO FIFTEEN AND SESSION SCRIPTS FOR LEADERS
Your Rights and Defining Abuse
Family Roles and Why It Is so Hard to Leave
The Dysfunctional Childhood Legacy
Boundaries and Goodbyes to Old Patterns
About Feelings
Anger
Boundary Setting Using Assertiveness Skills: 1-4
Setting Realistic Goals
Decision Making
Healthy Relationships
Changed Patterns
Closure