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Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India book cover

1st Edition

Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India

Edited By Padma Bhate-Deosthali, Sangeeta Rege, Padma Prakash Copyright 2013
352 Pages
by Routledge India

352 Pages
by Routledge India

352 Pages
by Routledge India
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Mainstream counselling in domestic violence often fails to address critical issues, such as gender socialisation processes and the abuse of power that allows violence against women, and focuses primarily on the intra-psychic nature of individual women. In contrast, feminist counselling is an effective alternative model, owing to its ability to address the fundamental correlation of abuse with... Read more



List of Figures. List of Abbreviations. Glossary. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I. Need for Feminist Practice in Domestic Violence Counselling 1. The Spirit of Resistance Aruna Burte 2. Why Feminism Should Inform Our Routine Interventions in Domestic Violence Manisha Gupte. Part II. Feminist Practice Models in Domestic Violence Counselling 3. Feminist Counselling for Domestic Violence: Some Issues of Theory and Practice U. Vindhya 4. Feminist Domestic Violence Interventions in India Sangeeta Rege and Aarthi Chandrasekhar 5. Healing from Violence: Integrating Feminism and Psychotherapy Aparna Joshi. Part III. Emerging Issues from Current Feminist Counselling Practice 6. Dynamics of Power in Counselling Relationships: Field Experiences Sangeeta Rege 7. Recognising the Social Weave for Effective Counselling Aruna Burte 8. Negotiating with Community-based Groups and Structures from a Feminist Perspective Ramesh Awasthi. Part IV. Need for Setting Standards for Feminist Counselling Practice 9. Enhancing the Quality of Feminist Counselling Radhika Chandiramani 10. Evolving Guidelines for Running a Crisis Counselling Centre Padma Bhate-Deosthali. Epilogue. About the Editors. Notes on Contributors. Index

Biography

Padma Bhate-Deosthali is Co-ordinator at Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT), Mumbai.





Sangeeta Rege is Senior Research Officer at CEHAT and is responsible for CEHAT’s project on the health sector’s response to violence against women.





Padma Prakash is currently Director, eSocialSciences, a unit of IRIS Knowledge Foundation.

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