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Family and Friends’ Guide to Domestic Violence: How to Listen, Talk and Take Action When Someone You Care About is Being Abused.
by Elaine Weiss.
The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
by Bonnie Badenoch.
Helping Her Get Free: A Guide for Families & Friends of Abused Women
by Susan Brewster. Guidance for those who support victim-survivors. This book was originally published as To be an Anchor in the Storm.
How He Wins: Abusive Intimate Partners Going Free.
by Don Hennessy. Excerpt from the back of the book: In this challenging book, Don Hennessy offers advice to women experiencing coercive control, and presents powerful first hand testimony from a number of these women. He pays particular attention to the impact of domestic violence on the target-woman’s wider family. He examines our practices and procedures, our attitudes and beliefs in relation to those he terms “psychefiles”, and argues that we have made few inroads in this area – either into the prevalence of male intimate abuse or in relation to the tactics that support the ability of the abuser to establish and maintain his control.
Indicative Trauma Impact Manual ITIM: ITIM for Professionals 2023
by Taylor, Dr. Jessica, and Jaimi Shrive. More information on the book can be found in this article, A non-psychiatric model of trauma., as well as at this link, VictimFocus: ITIM: Indicative Trauma Impact Manual.
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: A Multidisciplinary Guide to Improving Services and Support for Survivors of Rape and Abuse.
by Louise McOrmond-Plummer, Dr. Patricia Easteal, and Dr. Jennifer Y. Levy-Peck. This is an authoritative resource for all professionals who work with IPSV victims including counselors, social workers, refuge workers, victim advocates, mental health professionals, pastoral workers, lawyers, police, and health practitioners. This book brings together advice from professionals working with individuals who have experienced IPSV, including Barbara Roberts who has contributed a chapter in this book; the chapter is entitled “Pastoral Responses to Christian Survivors of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence”.
Response Based Approaches to the Study of Interpersonal Violence
by Allan Wade, Margareta Hyden, David Gadd. Recommended for all professionals who are in some way or other dealing with interpersonal violence and abuse. We have not read this yet but are comfortable endorsing it as we have great respect for Allan Wade one of the authors / editors, and are confident his co-editors would be of similar integrity.
WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP LAZARUS?: Reaching Out with Knowledge and Compassion to Survivors of Domestic Abuse in our Congregations
by Harriet Cook.
From the Amazon blurb: Domestic abuse concealed within the fabric of Christian life is often foreign to both leadership and laity alike. With a focus on abused wives, What Can I Do to Help Lazarus? compassionately gives spiritual and practical ways for leaders and fellow believers to better minister to women whose spouse has cruelly torn apart the marriage covenant. With sensitivity, scripture, and wisdom, the author also brings needed validation to the targets of purposed evil in the institution God designed to be a woman’s sanctuary — marital oneness.
What Can I Do to Help Lazarus? was written as a short article for abuse survivors reading a Christian domestic abuse support site. Reader comments were extremely positive and, with the Lord’s inspiration, the author expanded the content.
A link to the original A Cry For Justice post on which Harriet Cook based her book can be found here. We published this post to announce the recent release.
What Parents Need to Know about Dating Violence: Advice and Support for Helping Your Teen
by Barrie Levy and Patricia Occhiuzzo Giggam.
