Domestic Violence: Causes and Cures and Anger Management


Book Description

This is two books put together as one. The first part deals with the problem of domestic violence. Domestic violence is wide spread, wreaks havoc on families and sometimes leads to the death of a loved one. And, it goes both ways! Both men and women can be abusers or victims. Often family friends feel helpless. Questions arise. How can we help the victim when she/he does not seem to want to leave the relationship? Is there hope for the perpetrators? Can they change? We explain what domestic violence is, the causes, the consequences, suggested treatment and help for both perpetrators and victims, and a biblical view of marriage. In part two, we tackle the subject of anger management. We will define anger and its core dynamics, determine how to recognize it, see that anger is a choice we can manage, and identify the cycle of anger. We will identify the major mental distortions that fuel anger, and expand on practical strategies to manage anger.This book is born out of lessons learned from personal experiences, and Willis' extensive research, years of experience in counseling people involved in domestic violence situations and teaching anger management. If you are involved in an abusive relationship, and/or have anger issues, DON'T SET THIS BOOK ASIDE! You can find hope and help here. This book will change your life!




Handbook of Domestic Violence Intervention Strategies


Book Description

Public awareness regarding the life-threatening nature and intense traumatic impact of domestic violence has substantially increased in the past decade. At the same time, dramatic changes have taken place regarding criminal justice and social work policies and practices applied to domestic violence intervention. And while the prevalence of domestic violence has declined slightly, national estimates still indicate that every year, approximately eight million women are abused, battered, stalked, or killed by their husbands, boyfriends, and other intimate partners. Featuring cutting-edge research and expert intervention strategies, the Handbook of Domestic Violence Intervention Strategies: Policies, Programs, and Legal Remedies is designed to prepare professionals to swiftly and compassionately meet the multiple needs of women and children who have suffered from domestic violence. This original and indispensable volume focuses on the numerous advances in legal remedies, program developments, treatment protocols, and multidisciplinary perspectives. It is a comprehensive guide to the latest research, public policies, and legal and criminal justice responses, covering federal and state legislation as well as trends in police and court responses to domestic violence. This is the first book to include court-based technology developments and new research related to the duration and intensity of woman battering. Highlighting actual cases and promising programs, the handbook also addresses important social work issues, including risk assessment protocols, a new five level continuum of woman battering, intervention methods, and treatment models. The book also examines the myriad legal issues and health problems facing the most neglected and vulnerable battered women. Written by expert practitioners and leading scholars in the field, the book's 23 chapters provide rich insights into the complexities and challenges of addressing domestic violence. This timely and definitive handbook is recommended for students, clinicians, policy makers, and researchers in the fields of social work, victim services, criminal justice, hospital administration, mental health counseling, public health, pastoral counseling, law enforcement. In fact, this volume is a critical resource for all helping professionals who are assisting abused women in escaping and remaining free from violent relationships.




Domestic Violence and Control


Book Description

Domestic Violence and Control provides important longitudinal data on violent relationships and addresses the problem of violence from the perspective of both the perpetrator and the victim. The issue of control emerges as a central theme. Control plays a keyrole, firstly, in organizing the victim's thoughts with regard to the batterer, and, secondly, in cases of repeated acts of violence over a length of time. The study shows acts of violence to be both "impulsive" and "instrumental" and thereby refutes competing explanations in the literature that violence is either "impulsive" or "instrumental."




From Wine and Dine to Municipal Court


Book Description

The composition of this book was inspired by the unconditional love and spiritual guidance of my mother. It is predicated on ten years of experience conducting domestic-violence groups for court-ordered male perpetrators. I was trained in the Duluth, Minnesota, model for treating perpetrators of domestic violence. Domestic violence is about power and control over an individual disguised as love. It has no respect for age, gender, race, or profession. It has disastrous effects on society, individuals, and their families.




Handbook of Anger Management and Domestic Violence Offender Treatment


Book Description

Ronald T. Potter-Efron consciously connects anger management and domestic violence, two long separated fields, and addresses treatment options and intervention methods that meet the needs of individual clients, couples, families, and groups. Therapists, counselors, social workers, and other treatment specialists will find this book a useful overview and reference for anger and anger management techniques as well as domestic violence approaches. This new edition is split into four distinct sections: • A description of anger and domestic violence focused upon helping clients use the principles of neuroplasticity to dramatically alter their behavior • Assessment for anger problems and/or domestic violence • Group treatment for individuals with anger problems and/or domestic violence • Individual, couples, and family treatment of these concerns. Woven through this book is a fair and balanced treatment of gender issues, reflected in the diversity of case examples that address jealousy, chronic anger, behavioral problems, group and individual counseling, and more. Readers are also shown how anger develops and can lead to verbal and physical outbursts, the five types of rage reactions, and how to treat anger turned inward. Potter-Efron also details four different approaches to treating anger: behavioral, cognitive, affective, and existential/spiritual. Mental health professionals are provided numerous questionnaires and worksheets to utilize with their clients. Handbook of Anger Management and Domestic Violence Offender Treatment is an essential guidebook that illustrates effective theory and practice.




Everything You Need to Know About Domestic Violence


Book Description

Domestic violence affects millions of people every year, yet many people don't recognize it when they see it. Those who are aware of a domestic violence situation, whether it is happening to them or a loved one, often don't know how to stop it. This book covers physical abuse as well as other forms of abuse that are harder to spot, such as psychological, emotional, financial, and sexual abuse. Readers will learn how to read the signs that a relationship is abusive, understand the abuser's mindset, and learn strategies for getting free and breaking the cycle of abuse.




Domestic Violence


Book Description

Domestic Violence: Seeds of Change - A Training Manual for Anger Management addresses the multiple aspects that are involved in anger and rage rather than focusing on only one or two of them, which is a practice that is frequently incorporated in anger management programs. The following aspects are included in this program; Cultural Beliefs Abusive Families Consequences of Early Trauma Social Triggers Manifestations of Anxiety and Depression Alcohol and Drug Abuse Forgiveness, Meditation, Relaxation Poverty Domestic Violence: Seeds of Change - A Training Manual for Anger Management is designed to provide a curriculum to be used by licensed social workers, psychologists, and group leaders of anger management programs who work with clients who are experiencing difficulties managing and controlling their anger. Domestic Violence: Seeds of Change - A Training Manual for Anger Management contains everything trainers need to conduct a series of anger management sessions. It includes Trainer's Notes for 8 sessions, a CD that presents an activity involving circular breathing, and a complete set of the Handouts that are used in conducting the sessions. The material is suitable for use with persons from one or more of the following groups; Immigrants with cultural behaviors and feelings that do not match the U.S. culture American-born persons People who have been abused People who have abused their children People who have had children removed from the family People on probation because of anger-related incidents Husbands or wives who have had restraining orders placed on them Poverty populations Very young adolescents




A Ray of Hope


Book Description

This workbook was developed for a court-mandated domestic violence program for men. The workbook contains valuable information regarding stress, anger management, communication patterns and more. A Ray of Hope has been used by helping professionals throughout the United States and around the world. It contains 52 comprehensive educational lessons designed to move people from patterns of abuse and violence to healthy and stable lives. Utilizing a psycho-educational approach, this publication provides concrete techniques and examples of ways to stem ingrained cycles of verbal, physical, and economic abuse. The lessons explore how and why abusive cycles develop and ways to stop them by replacing old methods of coping with effective interventions.




Solution-Focused Treatment of Domestic Violence Offenders


Book Description

Every fifteen seconds someone commits a crime of domestic violence in the United States, and most violators will be court-mandated to receive group treatment. Outcome studies of traditional treatment programs (those with confrontational or educational approaches) indicate high rates of dropping out and low effectiveness, lending urgency to the need to find an alternative method. This book describes a cutting-edge treatment approach that creates effective, positive changes in domestic violence offenders. Solution-focused therapy focuses on holding offenders accountable and responsible for building solutions, rather than emphasizing their problems and deficits. By focusing on "solution-talk" instead of "problem-talk," clients are assisted in developing useful goals and solution behaviors that are then amplified, supported, and reinforced through a solution-building process. The book will be of great interest to professionals and graduate students in social work, psychology, and counseling.




Breaking the Chains of Domestic Violence


Book Description

I have decided to put a closure to something that haunted me for a long time by writing this book. I grew up in a domestically violent home, and I got married into another domestically violent home. This has affected me and my children, and I have decided to break the chains of abuse forever. The damage caused by domestic violence cannot be repaired, but I do have control over what is going to come into my life in the future. This book talks about my childhood and domestic violence and my marriage and abuse that caused me to have low self-esteem. In this book, I also talk about how I found myself going through depression because of bottling things up and how I managed to overcome that depression. It takes you to set yourself free from abuse.