Domestic Violence: Identification and Restoration

by Jean A Dimock, Melissa Luzzi (Foreword by)

Overview

In addressing men-on-women violence, Domestic Violence: Identification and Restoration provides a look into the lives of the men who are perpetrators, as well as the women and children who experience domestic violence. The resulting physical and mental health issues related to women and children are addressed, as well as the personality characteristics of an abuser and the common behaviors oppressors use in the home and in public. The behaviors they commonly exhibit after separation are exposed, including the tactics generally used to sway the court, their lawyer, and their own family and friends in their favor. Domestic Violence explores what happens to brain neurology in women and children when both witnessing abuse and also when directly experiencing abuse. Included are steps to help women and children as well as scriptural encouragement for the victims and survivors at the end of each chapter. Also viewed are the difficulties experienced by the connected parents of the victim-partner, subject matter hardly ever, if ever, addressed. This book includes fundamental and indispensable information in one volume and is meant to not only help women and children in domestic violence situations, but also to educate the professional and ignite further research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666786040
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	04/09/2024
Series:	House of Prisca and Aquila
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Jean A. Dimock received her MA and DMin degrees from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, at its Boston Center for Urban Ministerial Education. She has served as a domestic violence specialist for almost twenty years and works with women across the nation who find themselves in domestic violence homes. Dimock has written chapters for other edited works, served as a guardian ad litem, and taught philosophy and psychology courses at Great Bay Community College in New Hampshire.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Jean Dimock creatively demonstrates the every-day lived experiences of agony and pain that survivors of domestic violence, especially mothers and their children, bear in the hands of a batterer. Dimock ably offers useful recommendations that can eliminate domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and family abuse. I am privileged to endorse this comprehensive, life-saving manual on cordial family relationships. It is a must-read book by all professionals and non-professionals.”

—Lydia Mwaniki, director for gender and women, All Africa Conference of Churches



“Jean Dimock’s new book on domestic violence is an important read for any pastor, spiritual leader, or counsellor who is grappling to understand the context and long-term impact of abuse in families of faith. It builds upon the growing scholarly knowledge of violence in families and the difficult and delicate terrain victims, their children, and those who support them must navigate in and beyond the criminal justice system and contemporary church life.”

—Nancy Nason-Clark, professor emerita of sociology, University of New Brunswick



“Factual focus with an abundance of scholarly support, this book distinctly raises the level of awareness of the complexities of domestic violence. Nearly two decades of working with abused women and their children, combined with her education and dedication, all bring laser acuity that results in uncensored descriptions of the effects of trauma inflicted on both women and children, including how parenting styles relate to violence in the family.”

—Louise J. Buck-Bacon, grief counselor

Editorial Reviews

Jean Dimock creatively demonstrates the every-day lived experiences of agony and pain that survivors of domestic violence, especially mothers and their children, bear in the hands of a batterer. Dimock ably offers useful recommendations that can eliminate domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and family abuse. I am privileged to endorse this comprehensive, life-saving manual on cordial family relationships. It is a must-read book by all professionals and non-professionals.”

—Lydia Mwaniki, director for gender and women, All Africa Conference of Churches



“Jean Dimock’s new book on domestic violence is an important read for any pastor, spiritual leader, or counsellor who is grappling to understand the context and long-term impact of abuse in families of faith. It builds upon the growing scholarly knowledge of violence in families and the difficult and delicate terrain victims, their children, and those who support them must navigate in and beyond the criminal justice system and contemporary church life.”

—Nancy Nason-Clark, professor emerita of sociology, University of New Brunswick



“Factual focus with an abundance of scholarly support, this book distinctly raises the level of awareness of the complexities of domestic violence. Nearly two decades of working with abused women and their children, combined with her education and dedication, all bring laser acuity that results in uncensored descriptions of the effects of trauma inflicted on both women and children, including how parenting styles relate to violence in the family.”

—Louise J. Buck-Bacon, grief counselor

From the Publisher