[DV_listserv] FW: Spring 2012 Issue of Family Violence Prevention & Health Practice e-Journal

Fri May 4 10:58:32 PDT 2012

Good Morning,

I am forwarding the latest edition of the Futures Without Violence newsletter. There are three very good, very informative articles in the newsletter.

I've extracted and pasted below a table out of one of the articles (about a program providing victim/survivors of IPV the opportunity to express themselves through photography). I found the photographs below, combined w/ their narratives very moving.  The third article you will find in the newsletter focuses on the existing and emerging data about the impact of childhood trauma and exposure to violence-really, really interesting.

--Erin

1. Description of each participant, selected photographs and narratives, and identified common qualitative themes

Description

Participant 1
Participant 1 is a woman in her early 50s who was physically and verbally abused by her ex-husband, who is now deceased. She has been out of the abusive relationship for approximately 15 years and is now remarried. The following picture describes an event in her life. Although she did not submit a narrative with the photograph, the following description regarding this picture was recounted during one of the program meetings.

Participant 2
Participant 2 is a woman in her early 30s who was emotionally and verbally abused by her father, who she reported is a former alcoholic. She has been out of the abusive situation for approximately 10 years and is now married with children. She presented the following picture and corresponding narrative as an illustration of her childhood.

Participant 3
Participant 3 is a woman in her late teen years who was sexually and emotionally abused by her father, emotionally and physically abused by her stepfathers, and emotionally abused by an ex-boyfriend. She has been out of all abusive relationships for approximately three years. She created the following picture (using Paint Shop and Corel Pro) to demonstrate her own experiences and her general feelings about interpersonal violence.

Participant 4
Participant 4 is a woman in her early fifties who was physically, emotionally, and verbally abused and controlled by her ex-husband. She has been out of the abusive relationship for over 20 years and is now remarried. The following picture illustrates her leaving and moving forward from the abuse.

Participant 5
Participant 5 is a woman in her early fifties who was emotionally and physically abused by her father and three former husbands. She has been out of all abusive relationships for over eight years. She is a mother, and some of her children still live in her home. She is not married, but is in a stable relationship. The following narrative describes a picture of a set of doors to a home that the participant had downloaded from the internet.

Photograph

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No photograph

Narrative

This is a picture of a wall in my home. I reside currently in the same residence where the past abuse occurred. This wall has meaning to me. It is more than a wall; it is a reminder of the abuse I suffered at the hands of my ex-husband. I never hung pictures on this wall because this particular wall is where all the food was thrown when my ex-husband didn't like the meals I made. This wall is where dinner was thrown the night he broke my arm because he didn't think the country ham I made was cooked right. At the hospital, I told the nurse I had fallen because he was there with me. I knew things would be more peaceful for me at home if I didn't fight back or cause trouble by telling the truth.

The picture tells people that alcohol had something to do with my life.  And that guns were there also. Maybe I needed to let people know that my childhood was not as great as everyone thought it was. I have hidden a lot of feelings for a long time, for my mother, my father, and for me, too. I was embarrassed of my father's abuse and behavior.

In the English language, two extremely powerful emotions are captured by two very short four letter words. Though, these words are universal and are felt by all people in every culture, and for each unique culture there is a word. Generally, a person would have to give you a reason to have either of these emotions for them. Something good for love, something bad for hate. A positive to a negative, opposites if you will. A battered woman wonders what ever changed between her and her significant other to make him change so quickly between the two. He doesn't show hate until he knows you love him. After he does something hateful that he knows upsets her, he apologizes and repeatedly reminds her that they're in love, and that he will change. If you love someone, you try your hardest to do anything in your power to make them happy. He doesn't love her, and that is what she can't see. Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with.

I had learned to keep my head down during my marriage because it just saved me and everyone else a lot of trouble. If I made eye contact, someone might smile, and if my husband saw this....there was hell to pay. He had a quick temper and a jealous streak to match and he never minded humiliating me in public. I didn't want to make friends because I was embarrassed by the way my husband treated me, and I didn't want anyone to see. I had been acquainted with a woman at the bank where I worked for three years. After my marriage was over, I started to make friends at work. This woman... and I became close friends and are still friends today. I still remember the first time we talked as friends. She said, 'I know you. You're the girl who always walked around looking down at her feet.' So, I decided to take a picture of my feet, me looking up at my feet, because I don't have to look down now.

To pull up to someone's home I always wonder... In daytime, at work, at the park, any where in the world. All people act different. They always act different in front of people and then another way behind closed doors. SO YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. But you can always wonder ... is there silence, fighting, screaming, crying, or maybe even killing going on behind closed doors.  So the next time when you drive up to a home and see the doors, bet you may wonder what is going on behind where you can't see!!!!

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Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 10:36 AM
To: Greenawald Erin S
Subject: Spring 2012 Issue of Family Violence Prevention & Health Practice e-Journal

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Announcing the Spring 2012 issue of the Family Violence Prevention and Health Practice e-Journal

The three articles featured in this issue of Family Violence Prevention and Health Practice highlight opportunities for integration and innovation.  The experiences of implementing comprehensive psychosocial screening in an obstetric setting are described in an article by Garcia and colleagues.  Special safety considerations for implementing screening in a state with mandatory reporting for intimate partner violence are described as well as practical strategies that are relevant for any clinical setting. The screening tool and protocol used in this study are provided.

A pilot study by Haymore and colleagues describes how an innovative intervention can be adapted to offer survivors of family violence the opportunity to express and process their feelings through photography.  As always, hearing survivors' perspectives helps to keep us grounded in our work.  This issue concludes with notes from the field from an organization, the Institute for Safe Families (ISF).  An innovator in the field of family violence, ISF describes several programs addressing children's exposure to violence including initiatives to address physical punishment.  ISF is currently launching a Task Force to examine how the science on adverse childhood experiences can be integrated into pediatric practices.
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Lisandra S. Garcia, MPH, Ann L. Coker PhD, MPH, Corrine M. Williams, ScD, Emily R. Clear, MPH, CHES, et al.
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Laura Beth Haymore, Mary Y. Morgan, Christine E. Murray, Robert W. Strack, Linda Trivette, and Paige Hall Smith
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