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Peer reviewedDanis, Fran S. – Social Work, 2003
This article reviews the social science, legal, and criminal justice literature regarding interventions used to stop domestic violence. Examines the theoretical foundations and effectiveness of police interventions, the use of protective orders, prosecutions and victim advocacy, court responses, and coordinated community responses to domestic…
Descriptors: Courts, Family Violence, Law Enforcement, Laws
Peer reviewedBell, Holly – Social Work, 2003
Explores the utility of the strengths perspective as a conceptual framework for research in a qualitative study of secondary trauma with counselors of battered women. An emphasis on strengths allowed the researcher to identify strategies and resources that prevented symptoms of secondary trauma in the majority of counselors. (Contains 27…
Descriptors: Counselor Client Relationship, Family Violence, Predictor Variables, Resilience (Personality)
Peer reviewedDavis, Liane V. – Social Work, 1987
Traces changes in social workers' perspectives on the problem of wife abuse. Divides the changes into three time periods: discovering the problem (1976-79); consolidating the perspectives (1980-82); and transforming the problem of wife abuse (1983-84). Concludes increased focus on individual and couple treatment has deflected attention away from…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Battered Women, Counseling Theories, Counselor Attitudes
