Ending Intimate Abuse: Practical Guidance and Survival Strategies

by Albert R. Roberts and Beverly Schenkman Roberts

This is the first book to examine domestic violence in terms of a continuum of five distinct categories or levels of woman battering. This book, based on 501 in-depth qualitative interviews, places emphasis on how to recognize the warning signs of a dangerous relationship and urges women who have been battered in a dating, cohabiting, or marital relationship to end it quickly. This very practical and comprehensive study, which took more than seven...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195135474
• ISBN13: 9780195135473
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Roberts and Roberts do a hands down fantastic job!

Never before has one been able to put together all they know about domestic violence better than these two! The layout is fantastic! I recommend this for anyone interested in anyway on treating any type of violence case as it pertains to more crises than domestic violence. You learn about details of couples that give you a real-life view of what goes on in a relationship of abuse. The authors did a fantastic job describing all types of abuse and is also a great teaching aid for any type of crisis counselling. A++++!

A Necessity in all Libraries

In Ending Intimate Abuse: Practical Guidance and Survival Strategies, Roberts and Roberts give survivors, advocates, faculty, students, and other interested readers, an extremely informative and useful text to understand and address intimate partner abuse. The text is versatile, that is, it is suitable as a supportive guide for any woman experiencing abuse in her relationship, as a class text for undergraduate and graduate students, and in the libraries of advocates serving survivors. To understand the critical issues that survivors face, the authors talked with 501 abused women and interweave their life stories throughout the text. Roberts and Roberts identify and discuss a number of important factors (e.g. socioeconomic, substance abuse, protective and resiliency, socialization, culture, and religious beliefs, and other factors) that influence abused women's decision making processes about their intimate relationships. They break new ground in the domestic violence literature by analyzing and organizing these life stories into categories along a continuum of violence (short-term, intermediate, intermittent long-term, chronic with patterns, and lethal). In addition, Roberts and Roberts assertively identify warning signs of potential abusive men. In all these ways, Roberts and Roberts provide critical information for prevention and intervention strategies and policies changes. I highly recommend this book.

Fantastic

Robters and Roberts' Ending Intimate Abuse is an informative and compelling book which is hard to put down. Professionals, Academics, and all women will find the research and practical information helpful. This is a realistic self-help guide with practical resources and services. This is a must-read for all dating women, young and old.

THIS BOOK WILL SAVE LIVES!!!!

This book is absolutely compelling. "Ending Intimate Abuse" is the most brilliant and comprehensive book ever written on this subject. Dr. Albert Roberts has captured the true impact of intimate abuse and violence with riviting true stories of many abused and battered women. He intensely explores the subject and writes with inspiring emotional power. One of the greatest strengths of this book is that women can understand it and use it. It includes 23 warning signs that will help prevent women from being trapped in a violent and/or deadly intimate relationship. The greatest strength...it will save lives!! Hats off to Dr. Albert Roberts , America's premier author of intimate abuse.

An excellent book for women who date and all who know them

This gripping, illuminating, and very practical book will equip young women with essential information on socializing and dating safely in college and will also help battered women to end their violent dating relationships quickly. The college experience is fostered by the students immersion into an environment that provides for young people the opportunity to experiment freely all that this place of diverse ideas and customs has to offer. It is a time where students are encouraged to suppress their natural inhibitions and experiment academically, physically, and socially. Their minds are open and their guards are down. In Ending Intimate Abuse, Dr. and Mrs. Roberts provide a warning for college aged women, explaining the dangers they may be subject to in this environment, 'College Students are vulnerable to abusive relationships and situations because of the nature of the college environment and the fact that many students are removed from the support of their families. College Freshman are at a high risk for physical and emotional abuse from their boyfriends and, in particular, for date rape.' Ending Intimate Abuse, serves as a preemptive self help book, seeking to provide awareness of the rampantness of intimate partner violence, thereby educating college aged women to take precautions and protect themselves from abusive relationships and situations. This easily readable book is unique in its ability to be clinically helpful and practically useful for both professionals and women of all ages.