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1	Improving religious organizations' effectiveness with battered women: advice from victim advocates Gross, Waymon Gerald 11 May 2010 (has links) Religious organizations are in a unique position to assist battered women. The purpose of this study was to survey counselor/advocates who work at battered women's shelters to determine what advice they have to give to religious organizations to improve their effectiveness in helping battered women. The sample for this study consisted of 91 counselor/advocates from 20 battered women's shelters in Virginia. A questionnaire was designed to determine the counselor/advocates' opinions about their clients' interactions with religious organizations as to how helpful, or not helpful, these organizations have been. The participants identified a number of ways that religious organizations could better meet the needs of battered women. First, religious leaders can become better informed about the dynamics of wife battering so that their attempts to help will not further endanger victims. Second, leaders can be more supportive of battered women by taking a more public stand against wife battering and by creating a more accepting, healing environment within their faith community. Next, those who are not trained to counsel individuals involved in wife battering need to learn to refer them to community agencies that are better prepared to help victims and their batterers. Finally, for battered women both inside and outside their faith communities, leaders can work with shelters to provide financial and other resources to assist these women as they search for ways to live in a violence free home environment. / Master of Science LD5655.V855 1994.G767 Abused women -- Pastoral counseling of Church work with abused women
2	Empowering the unempowered : a narrative approach to deconstructing spirituality with women experiencing abuse Collett, Joan Elizabeth 30 November 2003 (has links) A postmodern approach is used to examine various discourses with relevance to subject positioning and its effect on individual spirituality. The stories are located within different discourses, introducing a spiritual diversity. Through narrative, a holistic understanding of the spiritual experiences of two contemporary Christian women who have suffered abuse is provided, highlighting spirituality as an essential component to physical and psychosocial well-being. Contextual post-structural feminist theology and the social construction theory of reality informed this work. The performative function of language in social interaction is emphasised, situating language and relationship as key factors in the construction of individual identity and spirituality. Whilst recognising the constitutive force of discourse, the research highlights the notion that people can exercise choice in opposition to these discursive practices. Elements of spiritual transformation, hope and empowerment surfaced as counter stories to the culture of abuse, providing the scaffolding for re-storying their lives. / Practical Theology / M.Th. (Pastoral Therapy) Deconstruction Discourse Spirituality Language Narrative Positioning Relationship Identity Hope Empowerment 248.082 Spirituality Abused women -- Pastoral counseling of Narrative therapy Deconstruction -- Therapeutic use Spiritual life -- Christianity
3	Empowering the unempowered : a narrative approach to deconstructing spirituality with women experiencing abuse Collett, Joan Elizabeth 30 November 2003 (has links) A postmodern approach is used to examine various discourses with relevance to subject positioning and its effect on individual spirituality. The stories are located within different discourses, introducing a spiritual diversity. Through narrative, a holistic understanding of the spiritual experiences of two contemporary Christian women who have suffered abuse is provided, highlighting spirituality as an essential component to physical and psychosocial well-being. Contextual post-structural feminist theology and the social construction theory of reality informed this work. The performative function of language in social interaction is emphasised, situating language and relationship as key factors in the construction of individual identity and spirituality. Whilst recognising the constitutive force of discourse, the research highlights the notion that people can exercise choice in opposition to these discursive practices. Elements of spiritual transformation, hope and empowerment surfaced as counter stories to the culture of abuse, providing the scaffolding for re-storying their lives. / Practical Theology / M.Th. (Pastoral Therapy) Deconstruction Discourse Spirituality Language Narrative Positioning Relationship Identity Hope Empowerment 248.082 Spirituality Abused women -- Pastoral counseling of Narrative therapy Deconstruction -- Therapeutic use Spiritual life -- Christianity
4	Re-performing trauma making use of outsider witnessing : a pastoral narrative approach Fortuin, Philene 12 1900 (has links) The study focuses on women’s experiences of abuse resulting in trauma. This research performance was conducted within a practical theology framework guided by a de-centred participatory action research process. The study was conducted against a postmodern background and was informed by social construction discourse. Its aim was to explore whether and how narrative pastoral counselling using outsider witnessing could be helpful in finding new preferred ways of living, resulting in healing, resilience and hope for women who had experienced abuse and trauma. The outsider witness group explored practical ways of listening, observing and responding to the pain and suffering of others, resulting in a new performance of the self as valuable, competent, and enabling those who are witnessed to believe that they are survivors that have lived through and beyond the limited life span of abuse and trauma. The research report ends with a play, New Seasons, which is to be performed in front of live audiences in the course of 2012. / Practical Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy) Trauma Abuse Outsider witness practices and ideas Narrative pastoral counselling Searching for paths of healing and hope Creating safe and spiritual space Local knowledge Identity Co-researchers Community of concern Standing up against abuse 259.082 Church work with abused women Abused women -- Pastoral counseling of Narrative therapy
5	Seventh-Day Adventism and the abuse of women Finucane, Colin. 06 1900 (has links) Women have been abused from the beginning of time and it would appear that a patriarchal system has facilitated this abuse. Churches, in general, and Seventh-Day Adventists, in particular, have been silent on the issue of Abuse. It is my thesis that a predominantly confessional Seventh-Day Adventist's view and use of Scripture are foundational to this silence on human rights issues. Adventist eschatology is predominantly apocalyptic in nature, focussing on end-time events, thus, the present is viewed secondary. Human rights issues are marginalised with the focus on evangelism. Thus, relationships are secondary and abused women have not been accommodated within the Seventh-Day Adventist framework of worship and caring. / M.Th. (Practical Theology) Abuse Women Adventism Seventh-Day Adventist Church Anthropology Ecclesiology Eschatology Apocalyptic Human rights issues Kingdom of God Evangelism Mission Patriarchal System Confessionals Progressives View of Scripture 261.8358 Church work with abused women. Seventh-Day Adventists -- Doctrines. Abused women -- Pastoral counseling of.
6	Re-performing trauma making use of outsider witnessing : a pastoral narrative approach Fortuin, Philene 12 1900 (has links) The study focuses on women’s experiences of abuse resulting in trauma. This research performance was conducted within a practical theology framework guided by a de-centred participatory action research process. The study was conducted against a postmodern background and was informed by social construction discourse. Its aim was to explore whether and how narrative pastoral counselling using outsider witnessing could be helpful in finding new preferred ways of living, resulting in healing, resilience and hope for women who had experienced abuse and trauma. The outsider witness group explored practical ways of listening, observing and responding to the pain and suffering of others, resulting in a new performance of the self as valuable, competent, and enabling those who are witnessed to believe that they are survivors that have lived through and beyond the limited life span of abuse and trauma. The research report ends with a play, New Seasons, which is to be performed in front of live audiences in the course of 2012. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy) Trauma Abuse Outsider witness practices and ideas Narrative pastoral counselling Searching for paths of healing and hope Creating safe and spiritual space Local knowledge Identity Co-researchers Community of concern Standing up against abuse 259.082 Church work with abused women Abused women -- Pastoral counseling of Narrative therapy
7	Seventh-Day Adventism and the abuse of women Finucane, Colin. 06 1900 (has links) Women have been abused from the beginning of time and it would appear that a patriarchal system has facilitated this abuse. Churches, in general, and Seventh-Day Adventists, in particular, have been silent on the issue of Abuse. It is my thesis that a predominantly confessional Seventh-Day Adventist's view and use of Scripture are foundational to this silence on human rights issues. Adventist eschatology is predominantly apocalyptic in nature, focussing on end-time events, thus, the present is viewed secondary. Human rights issues are marginalised with the focus on evangelism. Thus, relationships are secondary and abused women have not been accommodated within the Seventh-Day Adventist framework of worship and caring. / M.Th. (Practical Theology) Abuse Women Adventism Seventh-Day Adventist Church Anthropology Ecclesiology Eschatology Apocalyptic Human rights issues Kingdom of God Evangelism Mission Patriarchal System Confessionals Progressives View of Scripture 261.8358 Church work with abused women. Seventh-Day Adventists -- Doctrines. Abused women -- Pastoral counseling of.

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