ABSTRACT
This chapter explains a dedicated domestic violence program in a large urban teaching hospital. Safe Horizons is a hospital-based domestic violence intervention service that provides advocacy and counseling to patients, employees, family or anyone eligible to use the hospital who is experiencing intimate partner abuse. The most recent and best US data on the prevalence of intimate violence against men and women comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Intimate and Sexual Violence Survey Three interrelated strands of literature tell a liberation model of work with women: Feminist psychology, liberation psychology, and, particularly for work with women in abusive relationships, the literature on domestic violence or intimate partner violence. Radical feminism is often distinguished from reformist feminism or liberal feminism. Liberation health is more closely connected in its focus and goals to radical feminism. The chapter also presents a case study on Alyce a 59-year-old woman of Jamaican descent and birth.
