Research Catalog

Title

Empowering survivors of abuse : health care for battered women and their children / Jacquelyn C. Campbell, editor.

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93800613
• Campbell, Jacquelyn.

Description

xii, 332 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• "An invaluable addition to the scholarly-based, practical literature, Empowering Survivors of Abuse is relevant to a variety of readers in the fields of nursing, mental health, criminal justice, and social work. This book is also a must have for shelter and system advocates, policymakers, and health planners, as well as advanced students in these areas."--BOOK JACKET.
• "Empowering Survivors of Abuse provides nurses, physicians, social workers, and public health professionals with the skills needed to effectively intervene in cases of domestic violence. This volume contains compilation of original research along with clinical, policy, and educational applications to guide the reader toward an understanding of abused women's experiences.
• Strategies for violence prevention, early identification, clinical interventions, and policy reformation are vital topics covered by contributors who are directly involved, on a daily basis, with victims of interpersonal violence.".

Series Statement

Sage series on violence against women ; v. 10

Uniform Title

Sage series on violence against women ; v. 10.

Subject

• Abused women > Cross-cultural studies
• Abused women > Health aspects
• Abused women > Services for
• Battered Women > psychology
• Child abuse > Prevention
• Domestic Violence
• Pregnant women > Prevention
• Victims of family violence > Care
• Women > Prevention

Note

• "AWHONN; Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-317) and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. System Change: Policy and Professional Education. 1. Making the Health Care System an Empowerment Zone for Battered Women: Health Consequences, Policy Recommendations, Introduction, and Overview / Jacquelyn C. Campbell. 2. Health Care-Based Programs for Domestic Violence Survivors / Daniel J. Sheridan. 3. Domestic Violence: Reconsideration of Ethical Issues in the Health Care System / Debra Gay Anderson, Barbara J. Limandri and Virginia P. Tilden. 4. Woman Abuse: Educational Strategies to Change Nursing Practice / Josephine Ryan and M. Christine King -- Pt. II. Dynamics of Domestic Violence. 5. Exploration of Women's Identity: Clinical Approaches With Abused Women / Karen M. Landenburger. 6. What Helped Most in Leaving Spouse Abuse: Implications for Interventions / Yvonne Campbell Ulrich -- Pt. III. Abuse and Pregnancy. 7. The Dynamics of Battering During Pregnancy: Women's Explanations of Why / Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Catharine E. Oliver and Linda F. C. Bullock.
• 8. Risk Factors for Femicide Among Pregnant and Nonpregnant Battered Women / Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Karen L. Soeken and Judith McFarlane. 9. Stress Related to Domestic Violence During Pregnancy and Infant Birth Weight / Mary Ann Curry and S. Marie Harvey. 10. Nursing Interventions for Abused Women on Obstetrical Units / Linda F. C. Bullock -- Pt. IV. Children and Adolescents. 11. Helping Battered Women Take Care of Their Children / Janice Humphreys. 12. Diverging Realities: Abused Women and Their Children / Janet R. Ericksen and Angela D. Henderson. 13. The Struggles of Runaway Youth: Violence and Abuse / Faye Annette Gary and Doris Williams Campbell -- Pt. V. Clinical Applications and Interventions. 14. Changing Women's Lives: The Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women / M. Christine King. 15. Screening for Abuse in the Clinical Setting / Kathleen K. Furniss.
• 16. The Abuse Assessment Screen: A Clinical Instrument to Measure Frequency, Severity, and Perpetrator of Abuse Against Women / Karen L. Soeken, Judith McFarlane and Barbara Parker. 17. Assessing Physical and Nonphysical Abuse Against Women in a Hospital Setting / Deborah Page-Adams and Susan Dersch. 18. Domestic Violence: A Practical Guide to the Use of Forensic Evaluation in Clinical Examination and Documentation of Injuries / Diane M. Brockmeyer and Daniel J. Sheridan -- Pt. VI. Culturally Specific Clinical Interventions. 19. Providing Effective Interventions for African American Battered Women: Afrocentric Perspectives / Doris Williams Campbell and Faye Annette Gary. 20. Clinical Interventions With Native American Battered Women / Diane K. Bohn. 21. Intervening With Battered Hispanic Pregnant Women / Sara Torres. 22. Clinical Interventions With Battered Migrant Farm Worker Women / Rachel Rodriguez. 23. Issues in Providing Care for Rural Battered Women / Nancy Fishwick.

ISBN

• 0761911219 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0761911227 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

98025308

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries