Safety Planning With Battered Women: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices (SAGE Series On Violence Against Women)

Safety Planning with Battered Women: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices (SAGE Series on Violence against Women)

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.About the AuthorEleanor 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