Supporting battered women and their children: Perspectives of battered mothers and child welfare professionals

Children’s best interests and intimate partner violence in the Canadian family law and child protection systems

“…This finding resonates with existing literature from Canadian and other Englishspeaking jurisdictions that documents the impact of the family law system (Hardesty and Ganong, 2006;Radford et al, 1997;Shalansky et al, 1999;Varcoe and Irwin, 2004;Wuest et al, 2006) and the child protection system (Alaggia et al, 2007;Buckley et al, 2011;Johnson and Sullivan, 2008;Shim and Haight, 2006) in the lives of women who have experienced IPV.…”

“…Qualitative interviews with mothers who are CPS clients in Canada and the United States demonstrate that the interviewees believe that social workers made them accountable for IPV, as the workers pressured them to leave their abusive partners but did not offer any concrete assistance or resources that would allow them to leave safely (Alaggia et al, 2007;Johnson and Sullivan, 2008;Shim and Haight, 2006). A recent study from Ireland documents similar findings as women reported that CPS workers failed to understand the dynamics of IPV and expected them to be able to easily leave their partners and homes; they, too, reported that they did not receive help in making these changes (Buckley et al, 2011).…”

Bridging Pastoral Counseling and Social Work Practice: An Exploratory Study of Pastors' Perceptions of and Responses to Intimate Partner Violence

“…This facilitated the emergence of categories and properties that reflect the purpose of the investigation. Members of the research team involved in the data analysis process went through a process of data analysis suggested by Lincoln and Guba (1985), Strauss and Corbin (1990), Merriam (1998), and Shim and Haight (2006): transcribed data verbatim; carefully read and reread the transcripts line by line and made memos regarding emerging common themes-open coding; arranged the common themes that are mutually building and organized the emerging patterns, regularities, and themes-axial coding; compared commonalities of units within the evolving categories and looked for convergent and divergent categories-constant comparison method; defined categories and properties; compared categories and themes between coders and resolved disagreements through discussion; as data were saturated and no more new categories and properties emerged, the first author developed a coding manual; compared subsamples of the end result of coding done independently by two coders using the coding manual; ensured there was at least 85% agreement rate (or coder reliability) between coders; and finalized coding.…”

Hypnosis in complex trauma and breast cancer pain: a single case study

“…The rationale behind this is many clients may not let go of their symptoms until they feel strong enough to do so. (Gafner and Benson, 2001;Stafrace, 2004;Shim and Haight, 2006).…”

“…According to literature, many clients may not let go of their symptoms until they feel strong enough to do so. So, enhancing the self-effi cacy of survivors who have experienced years of depression, anxiety and dissatisfaction with life is important at the fi rst stage of treatment (Gafner and Benson, 2001;Stafrace, 2004;Shim and Haight, 2006). Under the circumstances of this case study, a four-phase framework of treatment that was modifi ed by the three-phase mode was adopted in order to accommodate the needs of survivors of complex trauma such as Ms S.…”