Domestic abuse Books
Waldorf Early Childhood Association North America Same Light, Many Candles: Working with Vulnerable
Book SynopsisFor fourteen remarkable years, the Sophia Project in California served over one hundred mothers and children, all of whom were at risk of or had experienced homelessness and abuse.Drawing on the principles of Camphill and a Waldorf approach to child development, staff worked intensively with families, introducing them to daily rhythms and routines, assisting with job applications, shopping and tax forms, and even tutoring to pass tests and exams. Over a period of five years, the families regained confidence and independence. None returned to homelessness or abuse.Same Light, Many Candles is a definitive account of the Sophia Project: its origins, the journey, the families and its eventual end. Both moving and inspiring, it powerfully demonstrates the effect on real lives of structured, caring intervention based on Waldorf principles.
£13.49
Gentle Path Press Ready to Heal: Helping Women Heal from Addictive
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£19.96
Flashpoint Publications Finding Gracie's Glory: Book One in the Romance
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£17.95
Knowledge Power Books Twisted Love
£10.44
Carpenter's Son Publishing The Church’s Response to Domestic Violence
Book SynopsisAbuse is hiding in our churches. Our women and children are being wounded and even dying in their homes by those who have committed to love and protect them. Domestic violence is present in families you would never suspect from the most-respected to the least noticed, even the family sitting near you in church. Women are told God hates divorce, learn to submit, pray more, turn the other cheek, look at the plank in their own eye first, forgive 70 times 7. By giving such advice to women living in abusive relationships, well-intentioned church leaders are sending women and children back into dangerous, possibly deadly situations. In The Church’s Response to Domestic Violence, a guide based on scriptural truth, church leaders will learn the complexities of the dynamics of domestic violence who abuses and who is abused the effects of violence in the home the dangers of couples counseling how to respond to disclosures of abuse why she keeps going back why she doesn’t just leave We need our clergy and church leaders to reject the false ideologies that put God’s children at risk and equip the Church to be the clear voice of hope and healing for families.
£10.99
Carpenter's Son Publishing I’m Not That Woman Anymore: A Journey to Healing
Book SynopsisFreedom for His Daughters I’m Not That Woman Anymore: A Journey to Healing from Abuse provides guidance for women embracing the opportunity to receive hope and healing through the love of God. So many of God’s daughters who have been or still are in an abusive relationship are suffering. The enemy would see us remain prisoners of hurt and shame, but we are all called to more In this Bible study, we team up with Scripture to bring biblical truth to these issues of the heart: What lies of the enemy have I believed about who I am? What truths are found in the Word of God about abuse? How can Jesus possibly understand my abuse? How do I avoid another abusive relationship? Is forgiveness a part of healing? This study offers the truths needed to move from hurt and shame to joy and acceptance as together we seek a life free from the bondage of abuse.
£10.14
Carpenter's Son Publishing I’m Not That Woman Anymore: A Journey to Healing
Book SynopsisFreedom for His Daughters I’m Not That Woman Anymore: A Journey to Healing from Abuse Leader Guide provides guidance for women leaders embracing the opportunity to minister hope and healing through the love of God. So many of God’s daughters who have been or still are in an abusive relationship are suffering. The enemy would see us remain prisoners of hurt and shame, but we are all called to more. This study offers the truths needed to lead others from darkness into the light as they seek a life free from the bondage of abuse. In this Bible study, we team up with scripture to bring biblical truth to these issues of the heart: What lies of the enemy have I believed about who I am? What truths are found in the Word of God about abuse? How can Jesus possibly understand my abuse? How do I avoid another abusive relationship? Is forgiveness a part of healing? This isn’t an easy journey. but it will be worth it. To walk alongside those who have suffered is to walk alongside Christ.
£11.69
Rutgers University Press Building Financial Empowerment for Survivors of
Book SynopsisEach year, millions of women throughout the world experience violence and abuse at the hands of their intimate partner. Abusers coercively control them by using a variety of tactics ranging from physical or sexual violence to emotional or psychological abuse. An additional tactic often used includes financial abuse in which the abuser controls the money in the family, exploits the victim’s financial standing, and interrupts her efforts to be self-sufficient. The impact of financial abuse can leave women financially trapped in the relationship with limited financial management skills, knowledge, or self-confidence. Indeed, survivors often mention financial barriers as a top reason for keeping them trapped by the abuser in the relationship. Curiously, little of the research on domestic violence has sought to either fully understand the impact of financial abuse or to determine which intervention strategies are most effective for the financial empowerment of survivors. Building Financial Empowerment for Survivors of Domestic Violence aims to address this critical knowledge gap by providing those who work with survivors of domestic violence with practical knowledge on how to empower the financial well-being and stability of survivors. Specifically, every practitioner, human service provider, criminal justice practitioner, financial manager, and corporate supervisor should be screening the women they encounter for economic abuse, and when such abuse is found, they should work with the women toward developing financial safety plans and refer survivors to financial empowerment programs to assist survivors to become free from abuse.Trade Review"At a time when high inflation is having a devastating impact, particularly on single-parent families, and the threat of a recession looms, this book could not be more timely. It alerts us to the need to respond not only to the emotional needs of IPV victims and their children but also to the fact that escape and healing are not possible without a sound financial footing and the economic resources necessary to survive and thrive." — Claire M. Renzetti, Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women, University of Kentucky "This book is a well-needed and superbly crafted volume in the field of domestic violence. It should be widely read, and its lessons put into practice by those who are involved in services and advocacy for survivors of this violence. Financial empowerment needs to be embedded into these services and this book should be on the bookshelf in every shelter and in all the libraries for academics and students alike."— Louise Simmons, co-editor of Igniting Justice and Progressive Power: The Partnership for Working Families Cities "At a time when high inflation is having a devastating impact, particularly on single-parent families, and the threat of a recession looms, this book could not be more timely. It alerts us to the need to respond not only to the emotional needs of IPV victims and their children but also to the fact that escape and healing are not possible without a sound financial footing and the economic resources necessary to survive and thrive." — Claire M. Renzetti, Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women, University of Kentucky "This book is a well-needed and superbly crafted volume in the field of domestic violence. It should be widely read, and its lessons put into practice by those who are involved in services and advocacy for survivors of this violence. Financial empowerment needs to be embedded into these services and this book should be on the bookshelf in every shelter and in all the libraries for academics and students alike."— Louise Simmons, co-editor of Igniting Justice and Progressive Power: The Partnership for Working Families CitiesTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction 1 What Is Financial Abuse? 2 Impact of Financial Abuse 3 What Is Financial Empowerment? 4 Current Practices on Financially Empowering Survivors 5 Specific Strategies on How to Financially Empower Survivors: A Practitioner Perspective Jolynn Woehrer 6 Call for Action 7 The Future of Financial Empowerment Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£28.90
Rutgers University Press Building Financial Empowerment for Survivors of
Book SynopsisEach year, millions of women throughout the world experience violence and abuse at the hands of their intimate partner. Abusers coercively control them by using a variety of tactics ranging from physical or sexual violence to emotional or psychological abuse. An additional tactic often used includes financial abuse in which the abuser controls the money in the family, exploits the victim’s financial standing, and interrupts her efforts to be self-sufficient. The impact of financial abuse can leave women financially trapped in the relationship with limited financial management skills, knowledge, or self-confidence. Indeed, survivors often mention financial barriers as a top reason for keeping them trapped by the abuser in the relationship. Curiously, little of the research on domestic violence has sought to either fully understand the impact of financial abuse or to determine which intervention strategies are most effective for the financial empowerment of survivors. Building Financial Empowerment for Survivors of Domestic Violence aims to address this critical knowledge gap by providing those who work with survivors of domestic violence with practical knowledge on how to empower the financial well-being and stability of survivors. Specifically, every practitioner, human service provider, criminal justice practitioner, financial manager, and corporate supervisor should be screening the women they encounter for economic abuse, and when such abuse is found, they should work with the women toward developing financial safety plans and refer survivors to financial empowerment programs to assist survivors to become free from abuse.Trade Review"At a time when high inflation is having a devastating impact, particularly on single-parent families, and the threat of a recession looms, this book could not be more timely. It alerts us to the need to respond not only to the emotional needs of IPV victims and their children but also to the fact that escape and healing are not possible without a sound financial footing and the economic resources necessary to survive and thrive." -- Claire M. Renzetti * Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women, University of Kentucky *"This book is a well-needed and superbly crafted volume in the field of domestic violence. It should be widely read, and its lessons put into practice by those who are involved in services and advocacy for survivors of this violence. Financial empowerment needs to be embedded into these services and this book should be on the bookshelf in every shelter and in all the libraries for academics and students alike." -- Louise Simmons * co-editor of Igniting Justice and Progressive Power: The Partnership for Working Families Cities *"At a time when high inflation is having a devastating impact, particularly on single-parent families, and the threat of a recession looms, this book could not be more timely. It alerts us to the need to respond not only to the emotional needs of IPV victims and their children but also to the fact that escape and healing are not possible without a sound financial footing and the economic resources necessary to survive and thrive." -- Claire M. Renzetti * Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women, University of Kentucky *"This book is a well-needed and superbly crafted volume in the field of domestic violence. It should be widely read, and its lessons put into practice by those who are involved in services and advocacy for survivors of this violence. Financial empowerment needs to be embedded into these services and this book should be on the bookshelf in every shelter and in all the libraries for academics and students alike." -- Louise Simmons * co-editor of Igniting Justice and Progressive Power: The Partnership for Working Families Cities *Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 What Is Financial Abuse? 2 Impact of Financial Abuse 3 What Is Financial Empowerment? 4 Current Practices on Financially Empowering Survivors 5 Specific Strategies on How to Financially Empower Survivors: A Practitioner PerspectiveJolynn Woehrer 6 Call for Action 7 The Future of Financial Empowerment Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£107.20
Atria Books Everything I Never Dreamed: My Life Surviving and
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£21.00
Caitlin Press No Way to Run: A Mother and Son Story of
Book SynopsisOn 3 September 2010, the RCMP in Grande Prairie, Alberta, received a 911 call from Mat Crichton about a shooting on a local farm. Seconds later, miles from home, Holly Crichton got a shocking call from her son. I just shot Dad, Mat told her. The violent end to a violent situation came as no surprise to the community; Holly and her sons had been living in terror from the abuse of her husband for many years. Surprisingly, when Holly and her youngest son were disabled in separate accidents, the abuse did not subside it only escalated. Fiercely protective of her younger son, Holly rarely left the farm. But in time, Mat met and married a woman he loved, moving into a house on the family''s land. Encouraged by a family friend, Holly pushed her worries aside one September long weekend and set off with the friend for a music festival. She was there when Mat''s call reached her. As she raced to Mat''s side, she vowed that the vicious cycle of domestic violence that had claimed her husband''s life would not claim her son''s as well. But in a shocking turn of events, the police characterized the elderly father as the victim, and the son, Mat, as the aggressor. The community turned out in full force to prevent Mat from being convicted on a first-degree murder charge, and eventually the sentence was reduced to manslaughter. With an incredible support team of friends, neighbours and lawyers surrounding her, Holly mounted an epic effort on her son''s behalf. NO WAY TO RUN is Holly Crichton''s story of tenacity, hope, love and courage and a remarkable testament to the power of community. Crichton''s humour and unending reserve of hope and perseverance is an extraordinary example of a woman and her children''s choice to survive.
£15.99
Green Elephant Publications Codependency: No more - The codependent recovery
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£13.57
Sophie Blue Press (Pty) Ltd Life's Not Yoga: Or is it? Finding love in the
Book SynopsisJacqui Burnett wants to kill her father. At the age of 16. With a gun. The setting: apartheid South Africa in the 1970s and 80s. The mood: the apparent bliss and harmony of white conservative Christian life. Driven to extremes by her father’s criminal schemes and corrosive emotional abuse, Jacqui barely survives the first part of this turbulent memoir, as near-death experiences lacerate the pages with suicide attempts, a death-defying car accident, an illegal abortion, and that near-patricide episode… to name just a few. At this point, Jacqui is only 18. This is truth stranger than fiction and it’s only the beginning of her journey… Part one is dedicated to her father and tells the visceral, switchback story of the twisted father-daughter relationship that formed her character, fuelled by her first 26 years in his thrall. Part two switches settings as we find Jacqui in her mid-40s travelling across America, searching for answers. Perhaps surprisingly, this section is dedicated to her mother, the woman who turned a blind eye while supporting the tyrant she remained married to – all his life. The opening chapter drops Jacqui at 11 300 feet in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Having achieved material success, Jacqui remains dogged by unresolved anger and co-dependency - damaged by her history, despite a bucket load of therapy. Trying to make sense of her life after a decade-long legal battle against the giant multinational accounting firm, Deloitte, which against all odds she wins, she now faces a failing marriage and a ninth near-death experience: Jacqui is lost in a snowstorm. Cue her rebound romance, with a man who at first appears to be her soulmate on a white horse come to rescue her. By the end of part two, however, the reader and Jacqui’s close friend Amanda are on the same page: this man is ultimately an unavailable emotional fool. Finally, in part three, after an avalanche of events strips Jacqui of everything she values, Jacqui learns to put herself first, to tell her story of survival through the prism of self-love and its potential for self-regeneration. In essence, Life’s Not Yoga is about self-discovery and self-recovery. Of course, every twelve-step program shares a similar tale of a shattering life journey (parts one and two) where the wounded soul is guided to recovery (part three). So how is this memoir different? While the themes are universal, the dialogue is cracking, coupled with Jacqui’s unapologetic authentic voice and her hard-won belief in discovering her own path to a Higher Power. This combination makes for compelling storytelling. On one level it’s a tale of looking for love in all the wrong places, but on a deeper level, it’s a story of how adversity viewed through the lens of insight and wisdom lead to hope and redemption. To get to this point – to quote Laurie Hertzel – requires ‘a certain plumbing of the soul’, at which Jacqui Burnett excels. It’s a tumultuous, terrifying, frustrating but finally redemptive journey as she struggles to uncover the heroine within. The miracle is that she comes out the other side alive and – more than that – willing to use her life story to inspire others to survive and flourish. This is a book that will attract readers well beyond her already 40 000-strong online following. Compulsory reading for all of us living through challenging relationships with parents, partners, families, colleagues, our histories and ourselves. That would be all of us, then. (Written by Giles Griffin)Table of ContentsPart 1: Burning Shame; Part 2: Burning Bridges; Part 3: Rising Phoenix
£15.26
Springer International Publishing AG Domestic Violence and COVID-19: The 2020 Lockdown
Book SynopsisThis brief maps the available data augmented by expert interviews on the impact of the Covid-19 measures on DV in eight European Member States during the first lock-down. The volume addresses an on-going situation, additionally complicated by renewed lockdown restrictions during autumn and early winter 2020. It assesses the assumptions of an imminent wave of domestic violence against reliable data from crime statistics, surveys, and various institutions responding to domestic violence. Collecting partner country reports from Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Scotland and Slovenia, it demonstrates the effects that lockdown measures starting March 2020 had on reported DV incidents. It considers the differences between each country with respect to policing, legal systems, social and cultural factors and highlights best practices to prevent conditions resulting from Covid-19 lockdown undermining victims’ security and frontline responders’ capacities to provide services and prevent domestic violence.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Comparative trends of domestic violence.- Chapter 3. Human factors of domestic violence affected by Covid-19.- Chapter 4. Country reports: development and response to DV in eight member states.- Chapter 5. Key findings, best practices, and recommendations.
£23.74
Gyan Publishing House Violence Against Women: Dynamics of Conjugal
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£18.75
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. LIES OUR MOTHERS TOLD US: The Indian Woman’s
Book SynopsisSavitribai Phule, Mahasweta Devi, Amrita Pritam, Medha Patkar, Kamla Bhasin, and countless others have, since the nineteenth century, fought for and won equal rights for Indian women in a variety of areasuniversal suffrage, inheritance and property rights, equal remuneration, prevention of sexual harassment at the workplace, and others. Pioneering feminists believed that due to these hard-won rights, their daughters and granddaughters would have the opportunity to have rewarding careers, participate in the social and political growth of the country, gain economic independence, and become equal partners in their marriages. On paper, it would appear that theot of Indian women in the twenty-first century has vastly improved but, in reality, the demands of capitalism and the persistence of patriarchal attitudes have meant that they continue toeadives that are hard and unequal, especially when compared to their male counterparts. Indian women are among the most overworked in the worldthey spend on average 299 minutes on housework and 134 minutes on caregiving per day, shouldering 82 per cent of domestic duties. They are burdened with work from such a young age that many are forced to drop out of schools,eave theabour force, and give up dreams of financial independence. For those who have the privilege of choosing to have a career, the only way they can make this viable is by doing the double shift'': women are expected to do most of the housework, childcare, and caregiving, whether they have jobs or not. While these problems apply to all women across the country, those in India''s middle class face an altogether unique challenge because middle-class families have mastered the art of simulating an environment of empowerment in their homes.ies Our Mothers Told Us: The Indian Woman''s Burden takes a closeook at the gender inequality that forms the bedrock of India''s middle classthis forces women try and be superwomen'' while ignoring the deleterious effects on their mental and physical health. Using available data and anecdotal evidence from the realives of Indian women across the country, journalist Nilanjana Bhowmick asks if, in our patriarchal society, the assertion that women can have it all'' comes at too high a price.
£25.64
