Empowering survivors of abuse : health care for battered women and their children /
Campbell, Jacquelyn.
Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications,
c1998.
"AWHONN; Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-317) and index.
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.
Women
Abused women
Children
Victims of family violence
Pregnant women
Abused women
Abused women