Dilemmas and Decision Making in Domestic Abuse

Dilemmas and Decision Making in Domestic Abuse enables readers to follow health and social care practitioner’s thinking processes to unpack a range of elements of domestic abuse situations and develop a systematic approach to decision making.

Domestic abuse can be defined as a pattern of behaviour in any relationship, that is used to gain or maintain power and control an intimate partner. Each chapter presents a scenario with an annotated framework for thinking through key ideas, which allows the readers to explore the breadth of complex factors associated with domestic abuse. Readers will learn how to assist victims, ensure their safety, and be vigilant and open to modes of abuse that sit outside the stereotypical occurrences in a safe and ethical manner. Students on health and social care, social work, nursing and counselling courses will explore how to address difficult conversations in their professional environments, challenge their thinking and encourage ethical decision making.

Current practitioners in these fields will benefit from the opportunity to explore professional dilemmas they may have not yet witnessed in their own practice-learning experiences and uncover new theories that will help with future decision making.