Free Yourself From an Abusive Relationship: Seven Steps to Taking Back Your Life
Seven Steps to Freedom
If you are in an abusive relationship — or know someone who is — and don’t know what to do, this book can help. Free Yourself from an Abusive Relationship provides a practical seven-step plan that restores power and gives hope to those suffering abuse.
Step 1: Recognizing Abusive Behavior defines types of abuse ranging from physical, sexual and emotional to the lesser-known financial, social and spiritual abuse, and describes how to identify early signs of abuse.
Step 2: Learning About Abusers and Victims helps you identify patterns of abusive behavior. This step also addresses special issues, including abuse in rural communities and between same-sex partners, as well as child, teen and elder abuse.
Step 3: Preparing for Emergencies provides essential information on working with courts and local law enforcement, and describes how to create a safety plan.
Step 4: Getting Help After a Crisis gives guidance on dealing with immediate needs such as medical treatment, money, work and transportation, and planning for the long term.
Step 5: Making the Decision to Stay or Leave helps you evaluate your individual circumstances and decide what course of action is best for you.
Step 6: Learning to Heal and Rebuild outlines the different stages of healing and recovery and offers long-term strategies for overcoming the effects of abuse.
Step 7: Remaining Abuse Free helps you move on to a full, productive life, choose healthy relationships and avoid abuse in the future.
At every step, checklists help you to assess a situation and determine the best plan of action. Written for those who confront the daily reality of abuse, this book will be your lifeline to freedom.
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Book details
- Author
- Andrea Lissette
- Imprint
- Hunter House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Self-Help › Abuse
Family & Relationships › Abuse - Topics
- abusive relationships · domestic violence · recognizing abuse · leaving an abuser · emotional abuse · physical abuse · recovery from abuse · self-empowerment
- ISBN-13
- 9780897932578 (Paperback)9781630267810 (Hardcover)
About the authors
ANDREA LISSETTE, M.A., CDVC, is a co-author of Free Yourself From an Abusive Relationship: Seven Steps to Taking Back Your Life.
Lissette is a Florida state-certified Family Court Mediator and a Department of Corrections-certified trainer and facilitator for abuse intervention classes. Approved by the Florida Department of Corrections to train facilitators of state-certified domestic violence intervention programs, she has served on Florida Domestic Violence Task Forces and Advisory Boards.
When she’s not writing, Lissette leads violence intervention classes for juveniles and adults and advocates for victims of domestic violence. She has also taught writing and literature at a college in Southwest Florida.
Andrea lives in Florida.
RICHARD KRAUS, Ph.D., is a co-author of Free Yourself From an Abusive Relationship: Seven Steps to Taking Back Your Life.
Kraus is a Florida state-certified assessor for batterers' intervention groups for men and women, with extensive experience counseling victims of domestic violence. He has written twenty-three books across multiple subjects.