The United Nations has identified gender‐based violence against women as a global health
and development issue, and a host of policies, public education, and action programs aimed …

The influence of culture and ethnic background on women's experience of domestic
violence has been explored in research only recently. Here the authors review research …

Violence against women has received increasing public attention over the past 20 years.
The once taboo subjects of rape and wife battering are now discussed openly on talk shows …

This commentary presents an “indigenist” model of Native women's health, a stress-coping
paradigm that situates Native women's health within the larger context of their status as a …

In this second edition of their classic volume, the authors present their elder abuse diagnosis
and intervention model. This comprehensive model of detection, assessment, and …

This article presents an overview of the ongoing colonial context that perpetuates and
supports violence against First Nations women. This context must be recognized and …

Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective focuses on family violence from four major ethnic
populations of the United States: Native American Indian, African American, Hispanic/Latino …

Although there is preliminary evidence that violence against women and children may be
particularly prevalent in some Native American communities, associations between abuse …

The widely read and highly praised bestseller It Could Happen to Anyone offers a unique
amalgamation of the practical clinical experience of Alyce LaViolette and the extensive …

This paper proposes a shift in legal advocacy approaches employed by activists in the US
battered women's movement that would take into account how the work of criminal justice …