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Journey Beyond Abuse: A Step-By-Step Guide to Facilitating Women's Domestic Abuse Groups

by Kay-Laurel Fischer
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Create compelling women's groups that deal effectively with domestic abuse 

Journey Beyond Abuse and its accompanying participant's journal, Moving Beyond Abuse, give you complete tools for facilitating a powerful group with life-changing results. Used together, these unique books can help you create a program where women increase their understanding of the dynamics of abuse, feel less alone and isolated, feel empowered to make positive choices, and have a greater awareness to channels of safety. 

Journey Beyond Abuse gives you twenty-one group sessions, which you can combine to create groups of differing length and focus. The sessions are based on the successful program developed by the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation which had been used with more than 1,200 women. You'll get detailed instructions on how to facilitate each session including its goals, format, activities, and important issues that the session raises for both the participants and facilitators.

This practical guide also includes an overview of the history, philosophy, and goals of this model and how to best use the program; information and tips on how to handle 28 special issues such as child care, safety and protection, and substance abuse; facilitation techniques, cofacilitation, intake and individual counseling, and recommended policies and procedures; useful appendices including reproducible forms such as a women's domestic abuse summary sheet, her goals and strengths, self-care plan; and much more.

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Book details

Author
Kay-Laurel Fischer
Imprint
Fieldstone Alliance, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Formats
Paperback
Subjects
Family & Relationships › Abuse
Business & Economics › Nonprofit Organizations & Charities
Topics
abuse recovery · women's support groups · group facilitation · empowerment · survivor resources · counseling
ISBN-13
9780940069145

About the author

KAY-LAUREL FISCHER is a licensed psychologist with more than ten years of professional focus on women’s issues and domestic abuse. She is the co-author of Journey Beyond Abuse: A Step-By-Step Guide to Facilitating Women’s Domestic Abuse Groups and Moving Beyond Abuse: Stories and Questions for Women Who Have Lived with Abuse.

Fischer holds an MA from the Alfred Adler Institute and is a member of Minnesota Women’s Psychologists. She worked with the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation Community Assistance Program in St. Paul, Minnesota.

When not writing, Fischer practiced as a counseling psychologist serving women affected by domestic abuse. Both companion volumes reflect that sustained clinical focus.

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Format: Paperback