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Jac Brown, K. James (2014)
Therapeutic responses to domestic violence in Australia: A history of controversiesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 35
In my social work casework training in the early 1970s one of the maxims I was taught was that the more options you have for yourself the more options you have for your clients. For me this is one of the key themes that weaves its way through Angela G. Krieg Mayer's article, ‘Intervening with Couples Experiencing Domestic Violence: Development of a Systemic Framework’.Perhaps all subsequent developments in the ideas and practices that inform domestic violence (DV) intervention is an ongoing debate with pro‐feminist principles related to gendered violence, along with the ground‐breaking work of the Duluth Model as to what was needed to address the issue using group‐based programs, along with the cooperation of community and law enforcement agencies.Mayer acknowledges the continuing significant influence of the Duluth Model and understanding of domestic violence in terms of gendered violence primarily perpetrated by men against women. She is always mindful of safety for the woman (and the man) and not being inducted into treating abuse violence as relationship conflict, or the woman being, in some way, accountable or responsible for men's violence. But her point of departure is that Duluth and pro‐feminist prescriptions do not address the reality of her
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy – Wiley
Published: Jun 1, 2017
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