Clements / Pierce-Weeks / Holt Violence Against Women

Contemporary Examination of Intimate Partner Violence
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-936590-35-3
Verlag: STM Learning
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 628 Seiten, Electronic book text

628 pages, 34 images, 51 contributors


Violence Against Women examines a wide range of relationships that may be affected by intimate partner violence and takes a culturally sensitive, international approach to issues underpinning family violence, dating violence, and the injuries children suffer when their caregivers perpetrate violence. This text offers insight into a variety of subjects affecting women domestically and internationally.


These subjects include:

—Risk assessment for intimate partner violence

—Safety planning for victims of intimate partner violence

—Criminal prosecution of and protective orders against intimate partner violence

—Homicide and suicide related to intimate partner violence

—Intimate partner violence in China and among Chinese Americans

—Intimate partner violence in LGBTQI relationships —Occurrence of and intervention in cases of intimate partner violence in the military

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clements, Paul

Pierce-Weeks, Jennifer

Holt, Karyn E.

Giardino, Angelo P.

Seedat, Soraya

Mortiere, Catherine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Risk and Protective Factors for IPV

2. Assessing for IPV

3. Risk Assessment in IPV

4. General Indicators of IPV in Women’s Health

5. Protective Orders and Economic Abuse in Domestic Violence: A Case Study

6. Investigating IPV: The Legal Response

7. IPV: Prosecution and Medical Issues

8. Winning in Court: Maximizing Protection through Prosecution

9. IPV and Child Protection: The Journey to Collaborative Intervention Approaches

10. Safety Planning

11. An Overview of Best Practices to Prevent IPV

12. The WHO, UN and Red Cross Approaches to IPV

13. IPV and Sexual Assault: A Global Perspective

14. Strangulation in the Living IPV Patient

15. Stalking

16. Fatal Intimate Partner Violence

17. Sex-Related Homicide

18. IPV and Mental Health Outcomes

19. Suicide and IPV

20. IPV During Pregnancy

21. The Continuum of IPV and Child Maltreatment: Definitions, Epidemiology, and Health Consequences

22. Intergenerational Transmission of IPV

23. IPV and the Mother Who Kills

24. Feminist Perspective: IPV and the Intersection with Health Care

25. LGBTQI Culture Considerations

26. IPV in the Military Community

27. Violence on the Streets: the Abuse, Assault and Murder of Sex Workers

28. The Co-occurrence of IPV and HIV

29. IPV in China and the Chinese American Community

Über Autor(innen)

Clements, Paul
Paul Thomas Clements is an Associate Clinical Professor. A psychiatric / forensic specialist, he is additionally a Certified Gang Specialist and Certified in Danger Assessment. His clinical experience includes serving as Assistant Director/Bereavement Therapist at the Homicide Bereavement Center at the Office of the Medical Examiner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he was appointed as the Director of Operations for the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health. He is an experienced therapist, forensic consultant, and critical incident/trauma response specialist with over 20 years experience in management/administration and crisis intervention. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychiatric Forensic Nursing from The University of Pennsylvania.

Pierce-Weeks, Jennifer
Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, manager of the Forensic Nurse Examiner Program at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Spring, Colorado, is a past-president of the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) and has served on the IAFN Board since 2006. She previously served for twelve years as the director of the State of New Hampshire Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program. She has 23 years nursing experience and is an educator and expert in the areas of child and adult sexual assault, as well as domestic violence.

Seedat, Soraya
Soraya Seedat is the Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry (Faculty of Health Sciences) at Stellenbosch University (Cape Town, South Africa) and holds the South African Research Chair in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation. In addition, she co-directs the Medical Research Council Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders. She has extensive research experience in the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders, with a special interest in clinical and translational work in childhood and adult posttraumatic stress disorder.

Mortiere, Catherine
Catherine Mortiere is a Forensic and Clinical Psychologist who works as an expert for the state of New York in the areas of dangerousness and risk analysis in forensic populations, as well as the treatment and evaluation of sexually violent predators. Her psychiatric experience has covered a broad scope of work; including individual, group and team-based treatment for mothers who killed their children, and persons with borderline and anti-social personality, psychopathy, trauma/disaster, and substance/chemical abuse. SHe works in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane, where the majority of her patients have been adjudicated as not guilty by reason of insanity and has a successful clinical private practice. Besides her work in forensics, she is an adjunct professor for the City University of New York.

Holt, Karyn E.
Karyn Holt is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. A nurse educator for over thirteen years, she is an experienced educator teaching both traditionally and online. She is a well-known distance education speaker tracing the development of education through the millennium transition and beyond. She is also a Certified Nurse Midwife and finds teaching both patients and students to be her passion in life. She has been a nurse midwife for sixteen years. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing with Nurse Midwifery specialization and certification from Georgetown University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Science from Touro University.

Giardino, Angelo P.
Angelo Giardino is the medical director of Texas Children's Health Plan, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, and an attending physician for the Texas Children's Hospital's forensic pediatrics service at the Children's Assessment Center in Houston, Texas. Angelo Giardino completed his residency and fellowship training in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Immediately after his fellowship training, Angelo Giardino became the assistant, and then the associate, medical director at Health Partners of Philadelphia, where he had primary responsibility for utilization management, intensive case management, and health care data analysis.