as a whole, and an equal partner in her relationship. The goal is eventually for the client to be able to safely remove herself from her destructive
enviornment.
Assessments are an important tool for any organization especially for the PEACE agency they are used to expand their abilities to obtain future funding, validate its accountability, fulfill objectives, and enhance its operation. For the PEACE agency, using an empowerment approach will help program staff to understand the effectiveness of the program in which they serve by assessing the clients’ observation of the program activities, identifying the program’s long-term impact, the progresses, success, and by monitoring the activities to validate the program’s accomplishments. An effective project evaluation plan will recapture the program’s purpose and will guarantee the PEACE Domestic Violence Agency can continue to accomplish its mission by reducing the incidents of domestic violence and help to promote recovery through education and awareness.…
The first thing that comes to my mind after seeing the appearance of my client is that knowing that treating domestic violence victims requires specialized training even though many people believe that short term counseling and advocacy are what is necessary to successfully treat domestic violence victims, many times a long term approach needs to be taken in an effort to work through the abuse and to help victims to not get into future relationships that are abusive. These factors are essential in beginning sessions, most all victims of abuse have experienced emotional trauma as a result of being in an abusive relationship. Dealing with these issues takes time, and cannot be worked through in just a few sessions. After these issues have been…
As abuse can be something that has the potential to affect an individual throughout their lives, I feel it is a subject that demands consideration, safe and ethical practice and a great deal of self awareness on behalf of the therapist in order to avoid actions that could prove counterproductive, invasive or even damaging (to the therapist’s life as well as the client’s). I feel that helping to facilitate change for a sufferer of abuse is an important role to play in a person’s life and could therefore have the potential to be both very rewarding and also extremely draining for a therapist if the appropriate considerations are not met.…
The number of cases of domestic violence is staggering. When people think about the word domestic violence they only think about the people that are directly involved in the altercation. The “silent victims” in domestic violence are the kids that witness the violence and have lasting effects from it (Child Welfare Information Gateway2009). We will review some studies that go over just some of the impacts that domestic violence has on the children in the household. For the remainder of this study review when you see you will see DV in place of domestic violence. Children that have been exposed to DV can…
The Effects of Forgiveness Therapy on Depression, Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress for Woman After Spousal Emotional Abuse, the title presents a strong argument about how women that once were abused emotionally by a spouse can be faced with negative psychological problems as an aftermath long after the relationship has ended (Reed & Enright, 2006). The negative psychological problems that woman can experience are anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem (Reed & Enright, 2006). Furthermore, this article focuses on how women that have been separated from their significant other more than two years benefited more from forgiveness therapy (FT) compared to other traditional alternative treatments (AT) when trying to overcome negative psychological problems (Reed & Enright, 2006). Forgiveness therapy is relatively new and primarily focuses on forgiving the abuser by targeting the resentment the victim has towards the abusive spouse or significant other. FT helps victims to grow and move past the negative psychological problems that once affected them.…
This journal article described a research investigation that was conducted in January of 1998 until October of 2000. The purpose of this investigation was the measurement of of the prevalence of intimate partner violence, or IPV, among military members, specifically women in this research assessment. The research data was compiled through the military’s information database, DEERS, or the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System. Using this DEERS database, 16,540 randomly selected active duty women from the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines were sent letters that requested their participation in a survey about women’s health. The women were then sent consent forms, and 2,179 women gave consent to…
James & Gilliland (2017, p. 287) noted, there is no more anxiety-provoking call for a police officer than a domestic disturbance call. The calls far outnumber other types of police call in which the possibility of violence, injury, and death exists to both civilians and police (Benjamin &Walz, 1983). On that account, when the victim of domestic violence come into an emergency shelter, needing support emotional and physical, to cope with their trauma, and a collaboration between local and government agencies that are linked through Victim Services of Toronto, would be able to assist and lessen their trauma. Victim Services of Toronto, provide instant crisis response intervention…
Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) focuses on various aspects of trauma, including the victim's past trauma. This type of practice has emerged over the years in human service agencies. The article "Bringing Trauma-Informed Practice to Domestic Violence Programs: A Qualitative Analysis of Current Approaches" outlines 6 core principles. The principles are emotional safety, restoring choice and control, facilitating connection, supporting coping, responding to identity and context, and building strengths (Wilson, Fauci, Goodman, 2015). The Van Buren Domestic Violence Coalition (DVC) utilizes similar concepts in their approach to survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. This approach leads to an effective response to the effects of trauma.…
Interventions in the emergency room are inadequate because most victims often times do not end up having to seek treatment with physical abuse. Once a victim comes into the emergency room seeking treatment, the abuse has been present for a while and there is more to the story. It then makes it difficult for the intervention to occur because nurses and doctors not knowing the full story of the victim and may make false assumptions. It is useful when victims make regular visits to the doctor and that is when the intervention may be more affective.…
From my observation, I believe that the social worker was seeking to help the client of domestic violence become aware that her children are seeing the violence that is done in front of them. The domestic violence can be anything of physical, verbal, and/or emotional abuse. The children may or may not be able see the violence happening, but they may be aware of it in some type of way. Based on that, I think the social worker is trying to get her client to understand that her children knows what is going on, but is not expressing it. The same way how the client seen violence in her childhood, it is happening again in her own family.…
Despite recent reforms to the legal response to domestic violence, available data on the effectiveness of domestic violence protection orders is limited (Young, Byles & Dobson, 2000). In addition to this, the personal characteristics, such as age, marital status, education and mental health of domestic violence offenders is also limited with no available data on the reasons why domestic violence offenders breach domestic violence orders and why these offenders are not deterred by the legal ramifications of breaching a domestic violence protection order. This research design will seek to gain a deeper understanding of the characteristics of offenders who breach domestic violence protection orders and why the legal ramifications…
MY TOPIC : TO WHAT EXTENT DOES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AFFECT THE PHYSCOLOGICAL BEING OF AN INDIVIDUAL…
If I were to interview a victim of domestic violence I would do it in a very caring way. I would not be judgmental, and I would do my best to make them feel as safe and comfortable as possible. I would ask them how long the abuse had been going on because they would help me understand how much emotional pain they had. I would then ask them why they stayed (if they stayed) with the abuser. I feel that’s an important question because it helps me know what kind of person they are. I would ask if there were any triggers to the abuse. I would ask because it helps me know what kind of person the abuser is. I would as if there were any kids involved in the relationship, and if the kids witnessed the abuse or got abused as well. This is important because it would tell me if the kids need some help as well as the adult victim. I would ask what feelings they had when they were getting abused. I think this is important to know because it helps me know what kind of emotional state the victim is in. For the same reason, I would ask if there were any feelings of retaliation towards the abuser. I would ask them what they would do if they were ever to be in another situation like that again. I feel this is important to know because it tells what kind of person they have become due to the…
Domestic violence also has many titles such as family violence, intimate partner violence, and domestic abuse. Intimate partner violence also includes physical, verbal/ symbolic, or sexual acts that can intentionally or potentially cause harm to an intimate partner. (Hayman 2015). A lot of domestic violence relationships develop because most people do not realize that they are in a violent relationship until it is too late. Domestic violence rates and relationships can be reduced if people could recognize the forms of domestic violence and understand the effects it has on their children.…
feel it is important to note that "in most families men and women do not engage…