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•Domestic Violence Treatment Domestic Abuse Intervention in the Context of Relationship Therapy
People ask, Why are you trying to help people 'fix' relationships that many people urge you to flee? We are by profession, practice and expertise healers first. Our belief is that people, at the core of their being, have the capacity for change.
Every person in an abusive relationship, whether they are the abuser or abused, can influence the dynamics of the relationship. Now this doesn't mean to imply that domestic abuse survivors are responsible for the battering or even have the ability to...
•Healing Emotional Abuse Boundary Issues of Domestic Violence
We hear about domestic abuse survivors' boundary issues as though this is what got them in the abusive relationship. Well, maybe it did. However, it's also true that their progressive dismantling of their personal boundaries is what keeps them safe while living in an abusive relationship.
If you are in an abusive relationship, you probably know what I mean. Now it may not necessarily be something that you are conscious of, but I trust you are aware of the fact that if you say no, to...
•Legal Domestic Abuse The Reality of Family Violence and Institutionalized Abuse
When domestic abuse survivors show up in the system to protect their children and themselves from family violence, they can unknowingly step into institutionalized abuse. This is especially true when they rely on family court to provide remedy for domestic violence.
What Is Institutionalized Abuse?
Institutionalized abuse is where one person willfully, openly and legally is taking advantage of and violating the rights and liberties of another person...all while being paid.
People worldwide...
•Domestic Violence Survivor s Health 7 Secrets for Successful Weight Management for Abuse Survivors
We hear it all the time: You're too fat. Your hair is too short, too long, you're a dummy, you're too fat, you can't, you won't, you shouldn't, you're too fat! Sound familiar.
It's no wonder that domestic abuse survivors develop dysfunctional relationships with their bodies and unhealthy eating habits. Far be it for him to see me enjoying a candy bar...so I'll sneak it in and have it while alone in my car.
As one survivor shared, pulling out that snickers in the privacy of her car was her...
•Domestic Violence and Divorce The Epidemic Facing Battered Mothers in Family Court
Battered mothers in divorce court often look like swine flu survivors that haven't realized they are part of an epidemic. These women are in awe over what is happening or has happened to them and their children.
They go into court expecting justice and walk out thinking they missed the boat or those on their ship merely kicked them off. And from here, they franticly reach out merely trying to stay afloat in the wake. They are perplexed as to why and how they end up with supervised visitation...
•Legal Psychiatric Psychological Abuse From Family to Court from Court to Shrink
A survivor asks, Once your abusive partner has used the legal system for further abuse, and final papers are filed with you having to see a psychologist of his choosing, what do you do? How do you turn the case around? He continues to threaten to take the children away.
When you are in this situation, it feels like something went wrong. You ask yourself, How is it that I'm the victim/survivor and I'm having to defend myself and prove my mental/emotional stability. Right?
If you are in this...
•Domestic Violence Self Help How to Find Your Answers from Within
There are no right or wrong answers when it comes to domestic violence. Each situation is as unique as each person living it. You heard me. There are as many variations to this story as there are people living it. So, don't let anyone tell you what you should or shouldn't do.
Far too often survivors of domestic abuse look to other people for answers to questions that truly lie within. They pursue the wisdom of those they pay for legal advice to those that shelter them from the danger in their...
•Domestic Violence Counseling When the Counselor Becomes Your Enemy
I often hear domestic violence survivors complain that the counselor they are seeing with their partner has sided with him/her. These victims expected to seek therapeutic remedy for the dysfunction that they live, and they discover they have gained another enemy.
Here are some things you will want to know if you are going to a therapist with your partner for domestic abuse.
1) Expect the therapy to be fertile ground for a continuation of what you experience in the privacy of your own home....
•Psychological Help for Patients Victimized by Intimate Partners A Clinical Advocacy Model
When the family wants the patient sick, treatment and recovery are impossible. This is the way it usually appears for all practical purposes. Family members' defenses protect interpersonal and intergenerational dysfunction...unless the patient is internally inspired and externally supported to break the cycle.
As clinicians we know the patient's resistance is an integral part of the psychotherapeutic change process. And in the context of therapy we learn to work with it. We use it to create...
•Spousal Legal Abuse Sticks and Stones in Family Court
I hear battered women's outrage over what their opposition says about them in divorce court. They take it to heart and integrate the slanderous comments as though they really are the picture painted by the other side.
Best part of it is they usually are not correct in their assumptions and beliefs. Part of my job then becomes helping them awaken to this...and, of course, become enlightened warriors during the warfare and thereafter.
If you are a domestic violence survivor in divorce court...
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