TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baker, Linda L.
AU  - Cunningham,Alison J.
ED  - Centre for Children & Families in the Justice System
TI  - Helping an abused woman: 101 things to know, say and do
SN  - 9781895953411
U1  - 362.8292 BAK 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London, Ont.
PB  - Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System (London, Ont.)
KW  - FVC
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - EMOTIONAL ABUSE
KW  - INTERVENTION
KW  - PHYSICAL ABUSE
KW  - PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
KW  - TREATMENT
KW  - VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - WOMEN
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - PREVENTION
N1  - On cover: "A Helping Hands Guide on Skill Building and Tools for Helpers and Healers"  Practice guide/manual; For practitioners; For general public; Research into practice; Training resource; Has handouts to copy  Topic area: Helping--> Victims, Perpetrators, Friends and family; xxc
N2  - This is the first "Helping Hands" Guide on Skill Building and Tools for Helpers and Healers. This guide has been written for anyone who helps and advocates for women. The guides aims to give the reader insight into how abuse affects women and provides concrete ideas to apply in their work including 14 worksheets and other handouts for use in group interventions or one-on-one work with women. The guide covers common assumptions and paradoxes involved in situations of the abuse of women in intimate relationships. It emphasises the need for all professionals in helping roles to understand the dynamics of abuse and fundamental principles that should inform all professional work with abused women, so that safety is ensured. Included are guidelines for listening to abuse disclosures, information on the common control tactics used by abusive men, their rationalisations for abuse and common thoughts and feelings blocking the  emotional leaving of women. The guide ends with a list of promises not to make to women
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