Tova Band-Winterstein, Zvi Eisikovits

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Intimate Violence Across the Lifespan (eBook, PDF)

Interpersonal, Familial, and Cross-Generational Perspectives

Beschreibung

Studies of family functioning as their members age, and of elder abuse at the hands of adult children or caregivers, are recent trends in gerontology. Yet the intersection of these two ideas-the impact of prolonged domestic abuse on elders and their families-has received scant notice. Similarly, questions are posed as to whether abusers "age out" of violence, but answers have been inconclusive.

Intimate Violence across the Lifespan addresses these research gaps with a groundbreaking long-term study of why domestic abuse persists, why it replicates, how abusive relationships may be altered by the processes of aging, and how violence may be stopped. The authors' phenomenological approach to their subject makes extensive use of interviews with family members to present a detailed portrait of family violence and the changing dimensions of control and secrecy as abuser and victim age. Close attention is especially paid to the frequently marginalized experiences of adult children, and how these scenarios play out as they become partners and parents. The section on intervention depicts the multiple challenges of working with husbands, wives, and children, with guidelines for encouraging change, closure, and support.

Included in the coverage:

• Hiding as a way of life.
• Cumulative losses and loss of meaning.
• Giving meaning to life in violence.
• The family's summary of its journey in violence.
• The tension betweencontinuity and change.
• Intervention: making resilience and survival possible.

Intimate Violence across the Lifespan is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, and clinicians/professionals in varied fields, including gerontology, family, psychotherapy/counseling, social work, personality and social psychology, and public health.

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Autor

Tova Band-Winterstein is an assistant professor of gerontology and nursing at the University of Haifa, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences and a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Ageing. Her career combines ongoing involvement in clinical practice and supervision with applied research in the field of gerontology and intimate partner violence across the lifespan. She funded the Unit of Elder Abuse at the Haifa Municipality and conducted with colleagues the First National Elder Abuse and Neglect study in Israel. The results of this survey had a significant impact on changing the welfare and financial establishment's attitudes toward elder abuse and neglect. She acquired national and international reputation though her work as consultant for policy and practice model development. Since her Ph.D. dissertation dealing with the phenomenology of elder abuse and throughout the lifespan, her writing expresses the much-needed insider's view of elder abuse by giving voice to the old persons who experience it. She published a book on the topic in Hebrew in 2008 and several articles published by professional journals in the field of elder abuse and intimate partner violence.

Zvi Eisikovits is a professor of social welfare at the University of Haifa School of Social Work and director of the Center for the Study of Society. Zvi is Israel's leading expert in research on intimate partner violence. In recent years he led the First National Survey on Intimate Partner Violence in Israel and the First National Survey on Elder Abuse and Neglect and is presently conducting a national survey on child abuse and neglect. He established the Haifa Research Group on Intimate Partner Violence, which acquired a national and international reputation, and a research center he is currently heading. His publications include about 100 articles and 4 books on intimate partner violence and intervention with children and youths at risk. Heconducted research in Israel, the United States, Germany, Thailand, Cyprus, and Eastern Europe and supervised a large number of doctoral students who presently serve as faculty members in Israeli and American Universities. He is the funding co-director of a national nonprofit organization called AMINUT established by academics, politicians and professionals to prevent violence. He serves on some editorial boards of journals such as Violence Against Women, Child and Youth Care Forum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer New York
• Seitenzahl: 137
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781493913541
• Artikelnr.: 43798739

Rezensionen

"This book explores domestic abuse across the lifespan and how the aging process impacts these relationships. It also looks at interventions that can be useful to elderly individuals. ... This book explains the important issues for family members and discusses intervention strategies focusing on finding meaning in these relationships. This is an important book for clinicians who treat families and intimate partner relationships." (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2015)