Psychology of Domestic Violence
Psych of DV -1-
Psychology of Domestic Violence
University of Colorado Domestic Violence Program
Dr. Louise Silvern
Campus Box 345
303-492-8808
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Part 1 Addresses the contributions and limits of empirical and clinical psychological literatures about Domestic Violence (Intimate Partner Violence, IPV). Students will become able to generate guidelines about mental health professionals and approaches that are/are not helpful to work with or understanding of battered women. We will review traditional and recent psychological views about battering and batterers and consider what aspects of this information should be included in psycho-educational materials for DV victims. We will also address assessment of battered women. Ideas about crisis and protective interventions will be quickly introduced, including some crucial information about medical complications that confront some battered women.
Part 2 Will first focus on the specifically psychological consequences of battering for women and children, with special emphasis on posttraumatic symptoms and processes. Current research in this area will be brieflyintroduced. Then,psychological interventions forboth child and adult trauma survivors will be addressed.
Required textbooks: January
1)Davies, J. & Lyon, E. (1998) Safety Planning with Battered Women: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
Read Before Intensive: 1-20; 21-52; 73-92; 95-112
2)Jacobsen, N., & Gottman, J. (1998) When Men Batter Women. New York: Simon & Shuster.
Read Before Intensive: 34-57; 58-135; 136-201
Hardcopies of articles, chapters, etc.: January
1)From: C.M. Renzetti, J.L. Edelson & R.K. Bergen (2001) Sourcebook on Violence Against Women. Thousand Oaks, CA.
Chapter 14. Bennett, L.W., & Williams, O.J. Intervention Programs for Men who Batter. Assessment of Battered Women and their Children.
Chapter 1 Jasinski, J.L. Theoretical explanations for violence against women
Chapter 2. DeKeseredy, W.S., & Schwartz, M.D. Definitional Issues
Chapter 3. Desai, S., Saltzman, M.D., Measurement Issues for Violence against Women. (Pgs. 35-51)
2)From: In J.L. Jasinski & L.M. Williams (Eds.) (1998) Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Review of 20 Years of Research.
Read: West, C. Lifting the “Political Gag Order:” Breaking the Silence around Partner Violence in Ethnic Minority Families. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
3)From M.A. Dutton. Dutton, M.A. (1992a). Empowering and Healing the Battered Woman. New York: Springer.
Read Pgs. 31-39 & 156-164; 51-73 & 105-114
4)Valera, E.M. & Barenbaum, H. (2003). Brain injury in battered women. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 797-804.
Download from any available academic library or library with American Psychological Association (APA) Full-text collection available on-line.
5)From In J.L. Jasinski & L.M. Williams (Eds.) (1998) Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Review of 20 Years of Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
West, C. (1998). Lifting the ‘political gag order’ (Pgs. 184-209).
6)Dutton, D.G. (2000). Witnessing parental violence as a traumatic experience
shaping the abusive personality. Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 3, 59-68.
7)From Arriaga & Oskamp (Eds.) (1999). Violence in Intimate Relationships.
Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage. Sharps, PW & Campbell, J. Health consequences for victims of violence. (Pgs. 173-180)
8)Walker, L.A. (1994) Abused Women and Survivor Therapy. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. (see selections below).
9)Waltz, Jennifer (2003) Intimate Violence: Contemporary Treatment Innovations, Dialectical Behavior Therapy in the Treatment of Abusive Behavior (Pgs. 75-101)
10)Sonkin, Daniel J. & Dutton, Donald (2003). Intimate Violence: Contemporary Treatment Innovations, Treating Assaultive Men from an Attachment Perspective (Pgs. 105-130)
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