Thesis ((M.A. (Clinical Psychology)) --University of the North, 2002 / Violence against women ts a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women, which has led to the domination of women by men and to the prevention of the full advancement of women. It is an old phenomenon that was kept secret, and people pretended that the problem did not exist. It wasn't until the feminist activists openly addressed the issue of inequality that included women's lack of rights and low status within marriage and society as well as battering that the taboo topic was changed into a subject extensively investigated. Extensive research on the topic now exists. As is the case in many developing countries, research on violence against women in Namibia is relatively rare. Research regarding the mental health consequences of abuse is virtually non-existent. It is to this area of research that the present study addressed itself. This study aimed at describing and determining the mental health consequences of battering to which Namibian women are subjected. The study followed both qualitative and quantitative research approaches. Qualitative research used in-depth interviews based on a semi-structured questionnaire. The measures utilized was an Abuse Disability Questionnaire (ADQ). A demographic questionnaire identifying battered women variables was also utilized. A total of 60 battered women were surveyed and all 60 women completed the questionnaires. In quantitative methods, data were analysed in terms of descriptive statistics. In qualitative methods, closely related data were grouped together under specific titles to serve as categories. The results indicated that Namibian battered women endure physical, emotional, sexual and financial abuse. The results has shown that age, education, religion, employment status and marital status do not matter. Women are still being battered. The results also indicated that Namibian battered women are indeed subjected to various negative mental health consequences.

In recent years, the public has seen a rise in recorded footage of violent encounters between police and Black American citizens, partially due to technology such as cell phones, dash-cameras, and body-cameras. This linguistic study examines how these encounters get escalated to the point of violence by asking 1) what kind of directives were used, 2) how were they responded to, 3) how the directives contributed to escalation, and 4) how might power and authority have played a role. I use two case studies to analyze directives and their responses. Findings reveal that repetition of directives on the part of the officers, as well as the rejections to those directives on the part of the motorists tend to aggravate the conversation. I conclude that a variety of directives may represent a variety of reasons the officer might have for a motorist to comply with their directives and that police authority might be better understood and agreed to by the motorist if a variety of linguistic resources were used.

Many nurses are physically and verbally abused by the patients under their care, with those providing care to patients dealing with mental illness or addition being at particular risk. Leadership of the project site, an urban mental health treatment center, identified a need to provide additional education to improve their nursing staff's ability to work with combative patients and prevent escalation of violent behaviors. Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory and adaptation to the environment guided the development of this project to answer the question if an education program for nurses working with potentially combative patients will increase their knowledge of strategies to prevent escalation of violent behavior. The education program was developed using results from an extensive literature review and input from a team of local subject experts, who provided evaluation regarding their satisfaction with the planning process through the completion of an anonymous, 10 questions, Likert-type survey. All team members scored each question with a (5) strongly agree or (4) agree. Project deliverables handed over to the facility included the developed education program, an associated handout, a plan for later implementation, and plans for outcome evaluation through evaluation of learning. This project has the potential to achieve positive social change through less violent encounters between nurses and patients, contributing to an increased culture of safety.

<p>Intimate partner violence is a problem which is increasingly drawing attention in society. The authority responsible for providing care and support to victims of intimate partner violence and their children is the social services. The purpose of this study was to show how social workers deal with intimate partner violence and to create a description of how this work is currently carried out in seven municipalities in the north-west of Stockholm. This was done through a quantitative survey including all investigating social workers in the municipalities concerned. The results were analysed with concepts from organizational theory. The findings showed that there is a need for further education related to intimate partner violence. The differences observed between the municipalities were derived mainly to the presence of a coordinator for issues concerning violence against women. Furthermore, results showed that social workers believe that the best possibilities to help victims of intimate partner violence lay outside the own organization. To better fulfil their statutory responsibility regarding intimate partner violence the next step for the municipalities would be to make sure that social workers gain further knowledge about intimate partner violence.</p>

<p>Med växande antal anmälningar från lärare till arbetsmiljöverket har behovet av relevant forskning framkommit. Syftet med denna C-uppsats var att undersöka om kränkningar, hot och våld mot lärare i kommunen Nordanstig förekom. Utfirån syftet ställdes sen tre frågeställningar, Hur vanligt är det att lärare, vikarier samt skolpersonal med pedagogisk elevkontakt, kränks, hotas, samt eventuellt utsätts för våld i kommunen Nordanstig? Hur påverkas läraren om denne blir utsatt för kränkningar, hot eller våld, kommer läraren av olika anledningar att låta detta passera i kommunen Nordanstig? Hur påverkas en lärares pedagogiska arbete om läraren blir utsatt för kränkningar, hot eller våld, kommer läraren att undvika jobbet eller sjukskriva sig i kommunen Nordanstig? För att få svar på dessa frågeställningar så utformades en enkät med 29 frågor som användes som en surveyundersökning. Resultatet påvisade tydliga svar att cirka hälften av de lärare, vikarier samt skolpersonal med pedagogisk elevkontakt kränks av elever och att det 45 av 46 besvarare sett andra kollegor kränkas av elever. Vidare svar påvisade en tendens till att detta nu ökat. Hot har förekommit men är mer ovanligt, våld mot lärare är sällsynt men har hänt. Även hot och våld påvisar en svag tendens till att ha ökat. Studien visar att det händer att cirka hälften av besvararna låter kränkningar från elever passera. Hot tillåts sällan passera mot lärare. Endast 3 av 46 besvarare har tillåtit våld passera utan åtgärd.21 av 46 besvarare har aldrig känt olust eller otrygghet på sin arbetsplats, 3 av 46 besvarare har varit sjukskriven p.g.a elev/ers våld mot denne.</p>

<p>The purpose of this degree project is to obtain a greater understanding of how the support for abused immigrant women is designed and if these measures respond to the women’s own wishes and needs. I also want to investigate the possible advantages and disadvantages, there are under the social ser­vi­ces and voluntary organizations (NGOs) and women themselves when it comes to spe­cific sup­port measures for immigrant women. On which basis have these support measures been designed and what experience or research starting points are based on? To what extent do they answer to women’s needs according to the staff, and to the women's own view?</p><p>The study is based on qualitative data consisting of five interviews and one case report of an abused woman. The participants I interviewed were three social workers from two different de­partments in Kristianstad administrations, one coordinator from the women’s support centre in Kristianstad and one pre-school teacher from the Family house Näsby in Kristianstad and one abused woman. To contextualize the information gathered, the normalization process by Eva Lundgren and stigma theory by Goffman have been used. The empirical material from my five semi-structured interviews and the case report has been analyzed on the basis of the normalization process and stigma theory, as well as literature and expert knowledge on abused immigrant women. Through this study I have come to the conclusion that the support measures to an abused immigrant women was based on her own needs. I have also noticed in my results that the professionals have different work procedures and different ways to refute abused immigrant women depending on their knowledge of other countries’ culture.</p><p> </p>

The purpose of this degree project is to obtain a greater understanding of how the support for abused immigrant women is designed and if these measures respond to the women’s own wishes and needs. I also want to investigate the possible advantages and disadvantages, there are under the social ser­vi­ces and voluntary organizations (NGOs) and women themselves when it comes to spe­cific sup­port measures for immigrant women. On which basis have these support measures been designed and what experience or research starting points are based on? To what extent do they answer to women’s needs according to the staff, and to the women's own view? The study is based on qualitative data consisting of five interviews and one case report of an abused woman. The participants I interviewed were three social workers from two different de­partments in Kristianstad administrations, one coordinator from the women’s support centre in Kristianstad and one pre-school teacher from the Family house Näsby in Kristianstad and one abused woman. To contextualize the information gathered, the normalization process by Eva Lundgren and stigma theory by Goffman have been used. The empirical material from my five semi-structured interviews and the case report has been analyzed on the basis of the normalization process and stigma theory, as well as literature and expert knowledge on abused immigrant women. Through this study I have come to the conclusion that the support measures to an abused immigrant women was based on her own needs. I have also noticed in my results that the professionals have different work procedures and different ways to refute abused immigrant women depending on their knowledge of other countries’ culture.

With 2011 womens movement in Turkey has a new tool for combating violence against women in their hands / Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, a.k.a. the Istanbul Convention. The Convention will add several new tools to the ones used by the womens movement in Turkey since 1980s.

In Jordan, a woman is often murdered by members of her own family if she is found to have tainted the family's honor in any way. Refusing to enter into an arranged marriage, being seen alone with a male stranger or even wearing makeup have all been cited as incidents that shame the family and result in what are called "honor killings". These honor killings have continued to plague Jordan, and other countries in the Middle East, well into the 21st century, despite the country's progress towards modernization. The dominance of the patriarchal family and the inability of the country to experience economic growth are strong contributors to the perpetuation of these horrible crimes in a country that is considered to be relatively modern in this day and age.

Bakgrund: Våld mot kvinnor är den vanligaste typen av våld och förekommer över hela världen. Varje år anmäls tiotusentals fall av våld mot kvinnor över 18 år och i genomsnitt dödas 16 kvinnor varje år till följd av våld i Sverige. Flera våldsutsatta kvinnor som besöker sjukvården upplever ett bristfälligt bemötande och det kan därför vara betydelsefullt att göra sjuksköterskor mer medvetna om hur våldsutsatta kvinnor kan bemötas. Syfte: Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva sjuksköterskans bemötande av våldsutsatta kvinnor på sjukhus utifrån ett globalt perspektiv. Metod: Studien genomfördes som en allmän litteraturstudie och baserades på 11 empiriska artiklar inom området våld mot kvinnor utifrån ett globalt perspektiv. Resultat: Sjuksköterskor kände rädsla och ovana i mötet med våldsutsatta kvinnor, vilket resulterade i att sjuksköterskor undvek att ställa frågor om våld i hemmet. Majoriteten av studierna visade att sjuksköterskor önskade mer kunskap och utbildning om hur kvinnor som utsatts för våld kan bemötas inom sjukvården. Flera studier visade att våld mot kvinnor var socialt accepterat i vissa länder och att flera sjuksköterskor upplevde att kvinnor inte borde offentliggöra våldet för vårdgivare eller myndigheter, utan att hålla det inom familjen. Diskussion: Sjuksköterskors bristfälliga bemötande kan bero på att sjuksköterskor inte fått undervisning om våld mot kvinnor under sin utbildning eller på sin arbetsplats. Våld mot kvinnor kan vara socialt accepterat i många länder och därför är det av vikt att svenska sjuksköterskor blir mer medvetna om kulturella aspekter som kan ligga bakom våldet för att bättre kunna hantera dessa patienter. Slutsats: Det råder en stor brist på kunskap inom området våld mot kvinnor speciellt om kulturella aspekterna och det krävs mer utbildning och forskning för att kunna förbättra bemötandet mot dessa kvinnor. / Bakground: Violence against women is the most common type of violence and occurs worldwide. Each year tens of thousands reports cases of violence against women over 18 years and an average of 16 women are killed each year due to violence in Sweden. Many abused women who visit health care facilites is experiencing an inadequate response and it may therefore be important to make nurses more aware of how abused women can be countered. Purpose: The purpose of this literature was to describe nurses' encounters to abused women in hospitals from a global perspective. Mehtod: The study was conducted as an general literaturereview study and was based on eleven empirical articles in the area of violence against women from a global perspective. Results: Nurses felt fear and unfamiliarity of encounthers with abused women, which resulted in nurses avoided to ask questions about domestic violence.The majority of the studies showed that the nurses wanted more knowledge and education on women victims of violence could be addressed in health care. Several studies showed that violence against women was socially acceptable in some countries and that many nurses felt that women should not disclose violence to health care providers or authorities, but to keep it in the family. Discussion: Nurses lacking encounte may be because nurses have not received education on violence against women during their training or in the workplace. Violence against women can be socially accepted in many countries and therefore it is essential that Swedish nurses become more aware of cultural aspects that could be behind the violence in order to better manage these patients.Conclusion: There is a great lack of knowledge in the field of violence against women, especially in the cultural aspects behind it and there is a need for more education and research to improve the encounters towards these womens.