Intimate Partner Violence Infiltrating the Workplace: Prevention and Intervention Strategies

ISBN-13: 9781498745109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 320 str.

Pam Paziotopoulos

Opis

Employers are vulnerable to the spillover of domestic violence and stalking in the workplace. They are in a position to intervene and in some cases have the power to save lives. Intimate Partner Violence Infiltrating the Workplace: Prevention and Intervention Strategies profiles victims and offenders in actual partner abuse cases, details the danger signs and behaviors of concern, and helps employers devise a practical workplace safety progrom. The reader will come to identify an employee's abusive relationship, understand its consequences and act to stop it before it claims a life or several lives at the workplace.

Spis treści

Section One: Defining Intimate-Partner Violence: What it looks like, pre-incident indicators, behaviors of concern and their level of threat. Chapter One: Defining Intimate-Partner Violence. Chapter Two: Understanding Behaviors of Concern and How to Recognize Them. Section Two: Methods for Safely Responding to Violence: What the victim should do, how to terminate the relationship safely and effectively, profiles and narratives of victims and abusers. Chapter Three: Going from Victim to Survivor. Chapter Four: Speaking out-Personal stories from survivors. Section Three: Effects of Intimate-Partner Violence on the Workplace: Signs of abuse, guidelines for implementing a workplace policy and how to respond to workplace violence; tips and guidelines for professionals in the field. Chapter Five: Recognizing Signs of Abuse in the Workplace. Chapter Six: How to Devise a Workplace Safety Program.