Violence and Social Work

Abstract

Violence is central to much social work practice. Yet social workers and their clients are not well versed in effectively tackling it. As a result they often take inadequate steps to avoid it — including those of denial, rationalisation, and reaction formation. Illustrating these defences by reference to recent work with battered women, more realistic approaches to dealing with violence — both with victims and their assailants — are then outlined. It is concluded that these approaches should be given greater attention in social work training.

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