Domestic Violence: Challenges to Medical Practice

Warshaw, Carole

doi:10.1089/jwh.1993.2.73

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“…Keller (1985) argues that such discursive practices play a distinct and important part in determining the thinking and behaviour of health professionals masking the 'protective motivation' which underlies the purported 'neutral' stance of western medicine. Indeed, Warshaw (1993) describes how problems shift from a social context which is inclusive of the woman's subjective experience, to a medical context which functions to distance and protect health professionals. Therefore, by remaining within the confines of the biomedical discourse of 'diagnosis' and 'cure', health professionals are protected from engaging in what might be termed, more 'messy' interventions, holding less certain outcomes.…”

Section: The Medical Model Of Care: Protection Diagnosis and 'Narratmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domestic Violence and Health Care: Opening Pandora’s Box - Challenges and Dilemmas

Lavis

Horrocks

Kelly

et al. 2005

Feminism & Psychology

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Section: The Medical Model Of Care: Protection Diagnosis and 'Narratmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domestic Violence and Health Care: Opening Pandora’s Box - Challenges and Dilemmas

Lavis

Horrocks

Kelly

et al. 2005

Feminism & Psychology

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“…Through the combined efforts of the domestic violence advocacy community, individual practitioners, researchers, and professional societies, standards ofcare have 2 been developed for the medical community and major initiatives have been launched to increase public awareness (Warshaw, 1996). At the same time, a large amount of community resources have been devoted to the treatment offamily violence.…”

Section: The Phenomenon Ofdomestic Jtlolencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second factor impacting intervention research has been studies exposing the substantial limitations in theories used to explain domestic violence, suggesting that many ofthese theories have been extended well beyond their limitations (Brannen & Rubin, 1996; Dutton, 1995;Warshaw, 1996). More current research has revealed that abusive individuals are a heterogeneous population with a large variety ofbiological, psychological., and sociological forces influencing their perceptions, decisions, and behavior and several authors are now suggesting expansion and integration ofthese theories (Hamberger & Renzetti, 1996;Goldner, 1992;Miller, 1996).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Systems theories have been the most strongly criticized theories with regard to their conceptualization of domestic violence because ofthe implicit '''ietim blaming t7 that can occur in the context ora systems perspective (Bograd 7 1984;GondoI£: 1985;Stordeur & Stille 7 1989;Warshaw, 1996). To conceptualize domestic violence within the context ofa dysfunctional marital relationship implies that the responsibility for the violence is shared by the couple, rather than being the sole responsibility ofthe abusive individual.…”

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Deciding to be Violent: The Perceived Utility of Abusive Behavior in Marriage

Nedegaard¹

1997

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“…How visible ageing ways of knowing are in elder abuse practice needs to be considered. Warshaw (1996), Horder (2007) and Martinez-Brawley and Zorita (2007) also argue that different types of knowledge is afforded different value and priority, suggesting that a hierarchy of knowledge exists. They argue that the configuration of a knowledge hierarchy depends on many factors including the organisational setting for practice, and the bio-social-political contexts in which knowledge emerges, is judged and is used.…”

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A cog in the wheel or an agent of change: Knowledge use and practice with older people who are abused in Aotearoa/New Zealand

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Across the past three decades a growing national and international concern about elder abuse is evident in policy, research and social and health care practice. There is currently a considerable body of literature on prevalence, predictors and risk factors as well as debates about definitions, conceptualisations and appropriate legal, policy and practice responses. There is more limited research on how the conceptualisations of ageing and elder abuse shape professional practice. Knowledge use and social work practice in elder abuse in the context of Aotearoa/New Zealand is the focus of this thesis.This thesis presents a qualitative exploratory study of elder abuse practice as reported by twenty social workers engaged in frontline elder abuse work throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. The purposive sample of social workers practised in a variety of settings and were situated in different geographic locations across the country. The primary focus of this study is to explore how elder abuse is understood, how cases of In individual semi-structured interviews, participants were asked to describe their understandings of elder abuse, to explore the knowledge they use to inform these understandings, and to give details about what actions they take when encountering situations of abuse.An interpretative, social constructionist approach to this research was taken. All twenty accounts of practice were analysed thematically. This provided a means by which the processes of, and influences on, meaning, knowledge use and response-making could be scrutinised, and an understanding of elder abuse practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand could be discerned.The findings indicate that the term 'elder abuse' is universally recognised and articulated in practice, but when explored in depth, understandings about what constitutes elder abuse varied, were dependent on the knowledge individual social ii | P a g e workers brought to their practice, and on the context in which the practice occurred. This knowledge was not always explicitly used and consequently was often left unscrutinised. The use of tacit knowledge was seen to facilitate the establishment of patterns of practice that have become customary and are left unchallenged.The influence of the context on what could or could not be done to respond to elder abuse was acknowledged by many of these social workers. Beyond the immediate resource constraints that were recognised as limiting their options to address abuse, the significance of the socio-economic-historic-cultural-political context and how this informed and shaped social work practice (and the experiences of older people) were not readily identified by most. When these factors were noted, they were largely considered to be insurmountable.The findings from this study highlight that a narrow approach is taken by most of the social workers in this study when working with older people who are abused. There is little demonstrated understanding the socio/political context in which the abuse occurs, and the systemic issues that may co...

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Domestic Violence: Challenges to Medical Practice

Cited by 46 publications

References 21 publications

Domestic Violence and Health Care: Opening Pandora’s Box - Challenges and Dilemmas

Domestic Violence and Health Care: Opening Pandora’s Box - Challenges and Dilemmas

Deciding to be Violent: The Perceived Utility of Abusive Behavior in Marriage

A cog in the wheel or an agent of change: Knowledge use and practice with older people who are abused in Aotearoa/New Zealand

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