num_pages: 216
description: Drawing attention to the complexity of helping battered women and their children, this volume introduces a new model of `women-defined′ advocacy. The model understanding a battered woman′s perspective, including her risk analysis and safety plan; building partnerships with battered women; and systems advocacy. It seeks to craft courses of action that will enhance women′s safety given their individual realities - which might include, for example, a woman deciding to remain temporarily in an abusive relationship.
language: English
title: Safety Planning with Battered Women: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices
titlecomplete: Safety Planning with Battered Women: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices (SAGE Series on Violence against Women)
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 13
publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc