Empowering survivors of abuse : health care for battered women and their children / Jacquelyn C. Campbell, editor.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Sage series on violence against women ; v. 10.
Corporate Author: Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses
Other Authors: Campbell, Jacquelyn
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1998], ©1998.
Series:Sage series on violence against women ; v. 10.
Subjects:
Women > Abuse of > Prevention.
Abused women > Health aspects.
Child abuse > Prevention.
Victims of family violence > Care.
Pregnant women > Abuse of > Prevention.
Abused women > Cross-cultural studies.
Abused women > Services for.
Genre:
Cross-cultural studies.
Physical Description:xii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • I. System change : policy and professional education. Making the health care system an empowerment zone for battered women : health consequences, policy recommendations, introduction, and overview
  • Health care-based programs for domestic violence survivors
  • Domestic violence : reconsideration of ethical issues in the health care system
  • Woman abuse : educational strategies to change nursing practice. II. Dynamics of domestic violence. Exploration of women's identity : clinical approaches with abused women
  • What helped most in leaving spouse abuse : implications for interventions. III. Abuse and pregnancy. The dynamics of battering during pregnancy : women's explanations of why
  • Risk factors for femicide among pregnant and nonpregnant battered women
  • Stress related to domestic violence during pregnancy and infant birth weight
  • Nursing interventions for abused women on obstetrical units. IV. Children and adolescents. Helping battered women take care of their children
  • Diverging realities : abused women and their children
  • The struggles of runaway youth : violence and abuse. V. Clinical applications and interventions. Changing women's lives : the primary prevention of violence against women
  • Screening for abuse in the clinical setting
  • The abuse assessment screen : a clinical instrument to measure frequency, severity, and perpetrator of abuse against women
  • Assessing physical and nonphysical abuse against women in a hospital setting
  • Domestic violence : a practical guide to the use of forensic evaluation in clinical examination and documentation of injuries. VI. Culturally specific clinical interventions. Providing effective interventions for African American battered women : Afrocentric perspectives
  • Clinical interventions with Native American battered women
  • Intervening with battered Hispanic pregnant women
  • Clinical interventions with battered migrant farm worker women
  • Issues in providing care for rural battered women.