Safety Planning with Battered Women

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Jill Davies - Greater Hartford Legal Aid, Inc. (GHLA)
Eleanor Lyon
Diane Monti-Catania - The Advocacy Institute, Brookfield, Connecticut

Volume: 7

Series:
SAGE Series on Violence against Women

Other Titles in:
Domestic Violence

February 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

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Jill Davies

Eleanor Lyon

Eleanor Lyon, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Residence and the Director of the Institute for Violence Prevention and Reduction. Eleanor teaches courses in research methods and violence against women. Eleanor’s areas of specialization include evaluation methods, ethnographic methods, violence against women, family issues and women’s issues More About Author

Diane Monti-Catania

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