Surviving Domestic Violence through Social Work

Role of the Social Worker

Austin , A. E., Shanahan, M. E., Barrios, Y. V., & Macy, R. J. (2017, July). A Systematic

Review of Interventions for Women Parenting in the Context of Intimate Partner

Violence. Trauma Violence Abuse. doi:10.1177/1524838017719233

This review article analyzes 26 articles with 19 distinct interviews to examine the

approaches and effects of interventions designed to address aspects of parenting among

women affected by intimate partner violence. While it is unable to clearly determine if

one intervention works better than any other due to limitations of current research base, it

does denote many different options available that would help a social worker. They do

denote that some of the current services were not found to meet the needs of women or

children.

Edelson, J. L., Lindhorst, T., & Kanuha, V. K. (2015). Ending Gender-Based Violence: A Grand

Challenge for Social Work. American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

Retrieved from http://aaswsw.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WP15.pdf

Social work's present measures, however deficient, show changes in sex based brutality

(GBV) are conceivable and that American culture has the assets, apparatuses, and

learning to move all the more rapidly toward more beneficial peaceful connections as

well as families, neighborhoods, and networks that esteem security, strengthening and

regard for young ladies and ladies. Existing activities to avert GBV and advance savagery

free close connections incorporate building sound adolescent and child rearing

connections, crisis shield programs, screening to distinguish those at most astounding

danger of deadly viciousness, and facilitated network reactions to address system level

obstructions. The field of social work must test new methodologies and grow new logical
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instruments to comprehend this Grand Challenge for present and who and what is to

come. The field of social work must test crisp methodologies and grow new logical

devices to comprehend this Grand Challenge for present and future ages that merit

viciousness free, sound networks. Tending to GBV fundamentally requires cross-

segment, interdisciplinary, and interprofessional coordinated efforts on numerous levels

of the social environment, especially among individuals from the criminal equity,

backing, and wellbeing frameworks. Social specialists, therapists and guides are as of

now extremely engaged with these endeavors. Judges, law requirement, and prosecutors

in the United States have gotten broad preparing on GBV in extensive part in

view of VAWA. Endeavors to forestall and intercede in GBV have extended well past

criminal equity reactions into medicinal services, religious, instructive, and different

settings. Huge advancement is vital in almost each way to deal with completion GBV,

from adjusting social standards to growing new information driven aversion endeavors and

intercessions at the individual, family, network, and social levels.

Lundgren, R., & Amin, A. (2015, Jan). Addressing intimate partner violence and sexual violence

among adolescents: emerging evidence of effectiveness. J Adolesc Health, 56(1

(Supplement)), S42-S50. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.08.012

This article identifies the goal of primary prevention efforts needing to target younger

adolescents in order to stop violence before it occurs, with the premise that as youth grow

the levels of violence experienced increase. Also, this article identifies that by starting at

a younger age prevention efforts can target promoting attitudes and behaviors that

prevent violence due to adolescence being the key period of gender role differentiation
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intensifying. The express concern is that boys and girls in early adolescence approach

intimate relationships with new ways of thinking and acting. The social worker can use

this information for working with children of violence or a program for foster care

children to help prevent violence in their future.

Munson, M., & Cook-Daniels, L. (2016). Gender-Integrated Shelters: Experience and Advice.

Milwaukee, WI. Retrieved 6 20, 2018, from http://forge-forward.org/wp-

content/docs/gender-integrated-shelter-interivews-FINAL.pdf

This article presents the details of in-depth discussions with 20 agencies that have

assimilated or are in the process of assimilating transgender, gender non-conforming, or

non-binary individuals into their domestic violence shelters. The article offers a

stimulating roadmap for shelters wanting to assist all those in need. This article is

intended to help victim service providers better serve the transgender community through

additional information that will help them be more competent and sensitive to the needs

of clients. One of the key elements is teaching service providers that no matter the gender

identity the critical part of meeting needs is to listen and believe survivors.

Phillips, H., Lyon, E., Fabri, M., & Warshaw, C. (2015, September). Promising Practices and

Model Programs: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Working with Survivors of Domestic

and Sexual Violence and Other Trauma. National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma

& Mental Health. Retrieved from http://www.nationalcenterdvtraumamh.org/wp-

content/uploads/2016/01/NCDVTMH_PromisingPracticesReport_2015.pdf

This publication is part of a larger effort to build an evidence base for trauma-informed

advocacy services. This article is a great resource for social workers wanting to help
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victims and looking for programs or to start programs that help target and advocate for

victims. This is a must read for any social worker in learning about how to help all

ethnicities, all types of trauma, and even all genders, ages, and socio-economic statuses.

Most programs recommended having ongoing conversations with survivors about what

they want to see, what they like, and what they wish did not happen within the program,

along with how they experience the program’s guidelines.

Robbins, R., & Cook, K. (2017, November 10). ‘Don’t Even Get Us Started on Social Workers’:

Domestic Violence, Social Work and Trust—An Anecdote from Research. The British

Journal of Social Work, 1-18. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx125

This journal article focuses on the struggle of social work to help victims of domestic

violence due to gaining trust in an area that requires social workers to look at abuse as

something that must be overcome rather than a trauma that they need to have support

through. The target being that there must be a cooperative service that looks to support

women and children of domestic violence and abuse that makes them less of targets and

seeks ways to help them overcome the power struggle.

Watson, D. (2017, March). Domestic abuse and child protection: women's experience of social

work intervention. Retrieved June 20, 2018, from IRISS:

https://www.iriss.org.uk/sites/default/files/2017-03/insight-36.pdf

This article looks at women’s perspectives on social work intervention. One of the major

defaults of social workers that was noted is that social workers did not recognize nor help

address the long-term impact abuse on women, such as mental health or substance misuse

difficulties. Social workers did not put the appropriate attention on abuse in people with
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disabilities, but rather tried to focus solely on the disability. Another shortcoming is the

complex nature of some minorities and ethnicities to oppress racial, gender and sexual

acts thus making it harder for the social worker to help them. Women often felt that the

social worker was blaming them rather than helping them, even as much as reporting that

the women put children at risk by staying with an abusive partner.

How does Domestic Violence Affect Mental Health

Adams, A. E., Bybee, D., Tolman, R. M., Sullivan, C. M., & Kennedy, A. C. (2013, Oct). Does

job stability mediate the relationship between intimate partner violence adn mental health

among low-income women? Am J Orthopsychiatry, 83(4), 600-608.

doi:10.1111/ajop.12053

This article helps to provide those who would mediate intimate partner violence with

understanding the process through which women’s health and job security is impacted.

The study speaks about the necessity for interventions that effectively address obstacles

to employment as a resource of improving mental health of low-income women with

abusive companions. This study reiterates that low-income women, and low-income

women with violent partners have all advocated that employment can have advantageous

mental effects for women to the extent that it achieves a want for social sustenance,

monetary assets, a sense of determination, or a sense of control over one’s abilities more

so than being without one due to the controlling efforts of violent partner. When applied

to low-income women, this basis suggests that job instability underwrites to chronic

financial strain, which is often an antecedent to material adversities such as lack of food,
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inability to keep a stable residence, a lack of transportation, and inadequate medical care.

The work-benefits and stress process models suggest that when an abusive intimate

partner threatens a woman’s employment, he is potentially jeopardizing the financial

resources, supports, and sense of control that employment provides, and, as a

consequence, mental health can suffer. The study suggests the need for programs and

policies that target employment as a mechanism for improving the mental health of low-

income survivors.

Lowe, S. R., Joshi, S., Galea, S., Aiello, A. E., Uddin, M., Koenen, K. C., & Cerda, M. (2017,

October). Pathways from assaultive violence to post-traumatic stress, depression and

generalized anxiety symptoms through stressful life events: longitudinal mediation

models. Psychol Med, 47(14), 2556-2566. doi:10.1017/S0033291717001143

The results of this study suggest that the path to psychiatric effects through traumatic life

events might not be limited to intimate partner and sexual violence, but rather could

possibly range to other assaultive events, including physical assault and robbery by

including a range of stressors that assaultive violence survivors are more likely to

experience, rather than limited stressors in a single domain. The study controlled prior

levels of symptoms allowing them to look at the contributions of the stressors and abuse

in the changing of symptoms over time.

Smith, M. (2012, April). Domestic Violence and Abuse. Retrieved June 20, 2018, from

Helpguide.org: https://www.helpguide.org/articles/abuse/domestic-violence-and-

abuse.htm
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Bibliography
Adams, A. E., Bybee, D., Tolman, R. M., Sullivan, C. M., & Kennedy, A. C. (2013, Oct). Does job stability
mediate the relationship between intimate partner violence adn mental health among low-
income women? Am J Orthopsychiatry, 83(4), 600-608. doi:10.1111/ajop.12053

Austin , A. E., Shanahan, M. E., Barrios, Y. V., & Macy, R. J. (2017, July). A Systematic Review of
Interventions for Women Parenting in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence. Trauma
Violence Abuse. doi:10.1177/1524838017719233

Edelson, J. L., Lindhorst, T., & Kanuha, V. K. (2015). Ending Gender-Based Violence: A Grand Challenge
for Social Work. American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Retrieved from
http://aaswsw.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WP15.pdf

Lowe, S. R., Joshi, S., Galea, S., Aiello, A. E., Uddin, M., Koenen, K. C., & Cerda, M. (2017, October).
Pathways from assaultive violence to post-traumatic stress, depression and generalized anxiety
symptoms through stressful life events: longitudinal mediation models. Psychol Med, 47(14),
2556-2566. doi:10.1017/S0033291717001143

Lundgren, R., & Amin, A. (2015, Jan). Addressing intimate partner violence and sexual violence among
adolescents: emerging evidence of effectiveness. J Adolesc Health, 56(1 (Supplement)), S42-S50.
doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.08.012

Munson, M., & Cook-Daniels, L. (2016). Gender-Integrated Shelters: Experience and Advice. Milwaukee,
WI. Retrieved 6 20, 2018, from http://forge-forward.org/wp-content/docs/gender-integrated-
shelter-interivews-FINAL.pdf

Phillips, H., Lyon, E., Fabri, M., & Warshaw, C. (2015, September). Promising Practices and Model
Programs: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Working with Survivors of Domestic and Sexual
Violence and Other Trauma. National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health.
Retrieved from http://www.nationalcenterdvtraumamh.org/wp-
content/uploads/2016/01/NCDVTMH_PromisingPracticesReport_2015.pdf

Robbins, R., & Cook, K. (2017, November 10). ‘Don’t Even Get Us Started on Social Workers’: Domestic
Violence, Social Work and Trust—An Anecdote from Research. The British Journal of Social
Work, 1-18. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx125

Smith, M. (2012, April). Domestic Violence and Abuse. Retrieved June 20, 2018, from Helpguide.org:
https://www.helpguide.org/articles/abuse/domestic-violence-and-abuse.htm

Watson, D. (2017, March). Domestic abuse and child protection: women's experience of social work
intervention. Retrieved June 20, 2018, from IRISS:
https://www.iriss.org.uk/sites/default/files/2017-03/insight-36.pdf