Future Interventions with Battered Women and Their Families

Jeffrey L. Edleson, PhD, is Dean and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Social Welfare. He is Professor Emeritus in the University of Minnesota School of Social Work and founding director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse. He has published more than 130 articles and 12 books on domestic violence, group work, and program evaluation. Edleson recently served on the US National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

Visions of Continued Change - Jeffrey L Edleson and Zvi C Eisikovits PART ONE: CHANGING SOCIETIES Violence against Women - Lori L Heise Global Organizing for Change Domestic Violence, Racism and the Battered Women's Movement in the United States - Valli Kanuha PART TWO: CHANGING COMMUNITY RESPONSES The Battered Women's Movement in the United States - Susan Schechter New Directions for Institutional Reform Tensions and Possibilities - Liz Kelly Enhancing Informal Responses to Domestic Violence Wife Abuse in the Arab Society in Israel - Muhammad M Haj-Yahia Challenges for Future Change PART THREE: INTERVENTION WITH SURVIVORS, PERPETRATORS AND THEIR CHILDREN Battered Women's Strategic Response to Violence - Mary Ann Dutton The Role of Context `Secondary' Victims No More - Einat Peled Refocusing Intervention with Children Controversy and Change in Batterers' Programs - Jeffrey L Edleson Expanding Sanctions for Batterers - Richard M Tolman What Can We Do besides Jailing and Counseling Them? Toward a Phenomenological Intervention with Violence in Intimate Relationships - Zvi C Eisikovits and Eli Buchbinder Couple Therapy with Battered Women and Abusive Men - Michal Shamai Does It Have a Future? The Future of Intervention in Woman Battering - Zvi C Eisikovits, Guy Enosh and Jeffrey L Edleson Common Themes and Emerging Directions