ABSTRACT

Innovations in Interventions to Address Intimate Partner Violence: Research and Practice speaks to what can be done to effectively intervene to end intimate partner violence against women. Including contributions from both researchers and practitioners, chapters describe service innovations across systems in large urban and remote rural contexts, aimed at majority and minority populations, and that utilize a range of theoretical perspectives to understand and promote change in violence and victimization. Reflecting this range, contributions to this volume are organized into five sections: legal responses to domestic violence, intervention with men who have perpetrated domestic violence, responses to women who have experienced domestic violence, restorative approaches to intimate partner violence, and a section on integrating intervention for domestic violence across systems.  The book highlights advances in practice which will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, policy makers and students.

part I|49 pages

Responses to Women Abused by Intimate Partners

chapter 1|16 pages

“A Place To Go To When I Had No Place To Go To”

Journeys of Violence Against Women’s Emergency Shelter Residents 1

chapter 2|15 pages

Rethinking Safety Planning

A Self-Directed Tool for Rural Women Who Are Abused

chapter 3|17 pages

“If They Can Get Through It, So Can I”

Women’s Perspectives of Peer-Led Support Groups for Intimate Partner Violence 1

part II|72 pages

Intervention with Men Who Have Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence

chapter 4|24 pages

Justice-Linked Domestic Violence Intervention Services

Description and Analysis of Practices across Canada

chapter 5|18 pages

Complex Trauma and Dominant Masculinity

A Trauma-Informed, Narrative Therapy Approach with Men Who Abuse Their Female Partners

chapter 6|15 pages

Co-Constructing Meaning

Women and Men Define Taking Responsibility and Making Amends

chapter 7|14 pages

A Continuum of Services for Men Who Abuse

Developing a Small-City Coordinated Community Response Model

part III|33 pages

Legal Responses to Domestic Violence

chapter 8|16 pages

The Nova Scotia Domestic Violence Court Pilot Project

Lessons Learned from Evaluation 1

chapter 9|16 pages

Shifting Toward a Trauma-Informed, Holistic Legal Service Model for Survivors of Violence

The Calgary Legal Guidance Family Law Program 1

part IV|50 pages

Restorative Justice

chapter 10|18 pages

Creating Safety, Respect, and Equality for Women

Lessons from the Intimate Partner Violence and Restorative Justice Movements

part V|54 pages

Broadening the Lens

chapter 13|21 pages

Strengthening Families

207An Evaluation of a Pilot Couples Program for Situational Intimate Partner Violence and Substance Abuse 1

chapter 14|17 pages

Men Who Abuse Intimate Partners

Their Evaluation of a Responsible Fathering Program

chapter 15|15 pages

Preventing Homelessness for Women Who Leave Abusive Partners

A Shelter-Based “Housing First” Program