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Representing an entirely new approach to domestic violence interventions, this book is based on data accumulated by the authors over the past 12 years from a series of qualitative studies and clinical practice with battered women and their batterers.
Guidelines for Intervention
Guidelines for Intervention
This chapter presents a series of guidelines based on an existential-phenomenological orientation intended for professionals intervening in cases of intimate violence. Because intimate violence is a relatively new field of practice and research in the human services, it entails far more unknowns than certitudes. Therefore, there is a need to develop models of practice that will enable a constant contribution while securing an ongoing interaction between application and research. Given the state of the art in this domain, we believe that practice should be guided by a reflective stance (Schon, 1983), which makes the ongoing interactive learning process possible. This involves the planning, use, and evaluation of knowledge, with an emphasis on values and ethical concerns. Accordingly, practitioners constantly produce, ...
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