Material Listing

Intended for use in domestic violence victim services, this guide was produced to provide domestic violence programs and agencies with a practical tool to review the accessibility of the agency and services offered for victims with disabilities.

This article discusses the importance of work environment in the development of vicarious trauma problems for domestic and sexual violence workers.

This article clearly defines trauma, PTSD, and secondary trauma and how secondary trauma affects those who work with traumatized clients.

This guidebook explores the response to vicarious trauma within certain communities and cultural groups.

This paper provides a brief discussion about what vicarious trauma is and how important it is that advocates/counselors be aware of it, recognize the warning signs, and take care of ourselves.

This article describes answers to the questions "What do we do with the men?" and "Will batterer programs stop male violence?" Includes recommendations for minimum standards for batterer programs, and emphasizes the importance of a coordinated community response.

"Corrections and parole officials and domestic violence advocates met in two roundtable discussions to examine ways to address intimate partner violence when men return from prison. This report summarizes the practices and key challenges identified in those meetings and addresses themes such as institutional resistance to addressing domestic violence, ways to involve intimate partnersÑincluding women who may have been victims of domestic violenceÑin reentry planning, and the value of cultural competence and programming that considers race.

"In my previous paper, ÔTruth or Fiction: Men as Victims of Domestic Violence?' I argued that although women do commit Ôintimate partner violence' (IPV) towards male partners, their violence is not equivalent to men's violence either in intent, frequency, severity or outcome (James, 1999). In this paper, I will review the research that has been conducted since that paper was written, to see if those claims are still current."

This fact sheet describes some behaviors that are common among men who batter their partners, provides a brief explanation of why men batter, an overview of available interventions, and a warning regarding court-mandated counseling.

In order to ensure that criminal justice system interventions are effective in holding offenders accountable and protecting victims from harm, the context in which each act of domestic violence occurs must be understood.