Representing Selves, Reconstructing Lives: Feminist Group Work with Women Survivors of Male Violence

Wood, Gale Goldberg; Roche, Susan E.

doi:10.1300/j009v23n04_02

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“…The narrative approach was originated by White and Epstein (1990) and has been applied to varying populations (Diamond, 2002;Monk, Winslade, & Sinclair, 2007;Winslade & Monk, 2006, 2008, including various groups (Pollio, 2001;Wood & Roche, 2001). The goals of a narrative approach with male batters is to expose and isolate the requirements of the patriarchy for both genders, show the cost of these requirements, and invite the male abuser to freely choose if he wishes to reject male entitlement's rules for himself, his partner, and their relationship.…”

Section: Narrative Social Group Work Practice With Men Who Battermentioning

confidence: 99%

A Narrative Approach to Group Work with Men Who Batter

Hall

2011

Social Work With Groups

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A narrative approach to group work with men who batter is presented with case examples. The approach is based in feminist and constructionist theory and seeks to expose and undermine the effects of patriarchal discourse in the lives and relationships of group members. The approach emphasizes an understanding of gender discourse, taking responsibility for actions, and exploring new definitional possibilities for participants and their relationships. The techniques of radical listening, the principle of least contest, breaking the allure of male entitlement and its effects, and cocreating a new male way of being are discussed with case examples.

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Section: Narrative Social Group Work Practice With Men Who Battermentioning

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A Narrative Approach to Group Work with Men Who Batter

Hall

2011

Social Work With Groups

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“…In the first telling, the therapist interviews the CSA survivor about his or her story of sexual trauma and resilience using traditional narrative techniques such as deconstructive listening, deconstructive questioning, and drawing out unique outcomes and subjugated stories in order to illuminate and thicken preferred narratives of meaning, strength, and resilience. The therapist coparticipates in the process of re-authoring new stories and self-representations by asking questions that draw out greater detail (Wood & Roche, 2001). Table 1 offers suggestions for questions that could be utilized during the first telling to thicken the narrative.…”

Section: Narrative Intervention: Definitional Ceremonies With Couplesmentioning

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Strengthening Vicarious Resilience in Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Narrative Approach to Couples Therapy

Laughlin

Rusca

2019

The Family Journal

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Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is correlated with numerous adverse effects, both intrapersonal and interpersonal. Couples where one or more partners is a CSA survivor often report problems in social/relational adjustment, emotional expressiveness, revictimization, low relationship satisfaction and stability, and sexual dysfunction. Despite the adverse effects of CSA, some individuals with a history of CSA retain typical levels of functioning, and data from studies of resilience in CSA survivors suggest the importance of social and relational support for favorable outcomes. Resilience is not only an individual factor but also a social, ecological process, and research on vicarious resilience in therapist–client relationships suggests that resilience can be transmitted across relationship systems through a combination of witnessing resilience stories and beliefs about the possibility of resilience and its transmission. We suggest that in romantic partnerships (including nonheteronormative configurations) where one or more partners has a history of CSA, narrative couples therapy is well suited to address the systemic impacts of trauma and resilience by facilitating the transmission of each partner’s resilience to the other. Two narrative interventions, mapping and definitional ceremonies, are suggested to facilitate the transmission of resilience within the couple system through the sharing and witnessing of each other’s subjugated resilience narratives, thereby promoting a re-authored preferred identity based on acceptance, strength, and agency rather than shame, avoidance, and interpersonal difficulty.

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“…How battered women actively use strategies of resistance in an attempt to make their relationships safe for them and their children has been documented (Campbell, Rose, Kub, & Nedd, 1998;Cavanagh, 2003;Geiger, 2002;Hollander, 2002;Wood & Roche, 2001). Yet the professional literature has been silent in regard to children's resistance to batterers' violence (Bancroft & Silverman, 2002).…”

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Adult Daughters of Battered Women

Anderson¹,

Danis

2006

Affilia

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This article reports on a qualitative study that examined first-person accounts of resilient women who, as children, were exposed to the battering of their mothers. The key finding was the roots of their resilient capacities that were forged in resistance to their childhood adversity and its consequences, particularly the violence perpetrated by their fathers against their mothers. The women used a variety of protective strategies to withstand and oppose their sense of powerlessness owing to the batterers' oppression of them and their mothers. Implications for social work practice include using resistance to oppression as part of a resilience-oriented helping paradigm in working with children who have been exposed to domestic violence.

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Representing Selves, Reconstructing Lives: Feminist Group Work with Women Survivors of Male Violence

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

A Narrative Approach to Group Work with Men Who Batter

A Narrative Approach to Group Work with Men Who Batter

Strengthening Vicarious Resilience in Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Narrative Approach to Couples Therapy

Adult Daughters of Battered Women

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