Victim Advocacy in the Courtroom
Author: Mary Lay Schuster
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2011-07-12
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1555537499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a deeply textured view of how victims' voices are introduced and heard in courts
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Quality Victim Advocacy
Author: David L. Voth
Publisher:
Published: 2010-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780984212217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive manual for measuring and improving quality and outcomes in crime victim service programs. Written to help providers and administrators design and implement services that are victim-centered and victim-driven.
Victimology and Victim Assistance
Author: Yoshiko Takahashi
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2018-11-14
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 1544350732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictimology and Victim Assistance offers insights into the criminal justice system from the perspective of often overlooked participants—victims. Delving into victim involvement in the criminal justice system, the impact of crime on victims, and new directions in victimology and victim assistance, authors Yoshiko Takahashi and Chadley James provide crucial insights and practical applications into the field of victim assistance. With an emphasis on advocacy, intervention, and restoration, this book examines real issues and barriers in the criminal justice system for victims and offers a way forward for future criminal justice or other human service professionals.
Moral Wages
Author: Kenneth H. Kolb
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2014-07-18
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0520282728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on over a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research on the topic of violence against women. Instead of focusing on the victims or perpetrators of abuse, Moral Wages focuses exclusively on the service providers in the middle. It shows how victim advocates and counselors—who don't enjoy extrinsic benefits like pay, power, and prestige—are sustained by a different kind of compensation. As long as they can overcome a number of workplace dilemmas, they earn a special type of emotional reward reserved for those who help others in need: moral wages. As their struggles mount, though, it becomes clear that their jobs often put them in impossible situations—requiring them to aid and feel for vulnerable clients, yet giving them few and feeble tools to combat a persistent social problem.
Victim Advocate's Guide to Wellness
Author: Olga Phoenix
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-09-02
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781500897062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictim advocates work with the trauma of others on a daily basis. Helping people who suffer can be difficult, traumatic, and draining. Thousands of victim advocates struggle with depression, obesity, immune disorders, addiction, and anxiety – frequently the results of vicarious trauma. Fortunately, vicarious trauma is preventable. This book is your personal guide to living healthy and content while thriving in a trauma-related field. Here, you will discover powerful, real life tools for addressing and transforming vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue. You will learn about effective techniques for self-soothing, renewal, and transformation. You will explore breathing modalities, guided meditations, affirmations, gratitude fostering, and leaving work at work rituals to open a way to compassion satisfaction, personal wellness, and empowerment. You will be provided tools to implement, empower, and sustain an organizational culture of vicarious trauma prevention. Finally, you will find out how to maintain life balance by nurturing physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, personal, and professional aspects of yourself, in order to create a productive, full, and cherished life free of vicarious trauma.
Counseling Crime Victims
Author: Laurence Miller, PhD
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 2008-03-24
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 0826116523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Dr. Miller's Counseling Crime Victims is extremely effective...and it will occupy a central spot on my bookshelf...It is really a golden find." --Society for Police and Criminal Psychology "Here is the gold standard - the book for mental health clinicians helping crime victims sort through one of life's most difficult and traumatic experiences.--Richard L. Levenson, Jr., Psy.D., CTS Licensed Psychologist, New York State As more and more mental health professionals are becoming involved in the criminal justice system - as social service providers, victim advocates, court liaisons, expert witnesses, and clinical therapists - there has not been a commensurate improvement in the quality of text material to address this expanding and diverse field. Until now, students and practicing professionals have had to content themselves with either overly broad texts on criminology or trauma theory, or exceeding narrow tracts on one or another sub-area of victim services. Counseling Crime Victims provides a unique approach to helping victims of crime. By distilling and combining the best insights and lessons from the fields of criminology, victimology, trauma psychology, law enforcement, and psychotherapy, this book presents an integrated model of intervention for students and working mental health professionals in the criminal justice system. The book blends solid empirical research scholarship with practical, hit-the-ground-running recommendations that mental health professionals can begin using immediately in their daily work with victims. Counseling Crime Victims is a practical guide and reference book that working mental health clinicians will consult again and again in their daily practices. This book will also be of use to attorneys, judges, law enforcement officers, social service providers and others who work with crime victims in the criminal justice system. It can also serve as a college- and graduate-level text for courses in Psychology and Criminal Justice. Key Features of this Book: Victim assistance is becoming a full-fledged field for social workers and counselors A practical, hands-on guide which offers counselors techniques for dealing with victims of a wide variety of crimes Shows counselors how to guide their clients through the legal and judicial system
Domestic Violence Advocacy
Author: Jill Davies
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2013-08-12
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 148331152X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDomestic Violence Advocacy: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices, Second Edition is a comprehensive and highly practical resource for anyone working with domestic violence victims. The essential elements and values of the victim-defined approach provide the foundation for a completely revised exploration of all victims’ perspectives and advocates’ roles. Authors Jill Davies and Eleanor Lyon draw on the far-reaching progress and increased knowledge of the field and delve deeply into the experiences of victims, their perspectives and decision-making, culture, and risks. Attentive to the real- world context of limited time, resources, and options for victims and for advocates, this enlightening text focuses on what is feasible and offers ideas for working within such constraints.
Working with Victims of Crime with Disabilities
Author: Cheryl Guidry Tyiska
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAttorney General Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance
Author: U.s. Department of Justice
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-06-06
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781477615720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Attorney General of the United States and the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime strive to pursue justice for criminal acts and that pursuit includes justice for the victims of and witnesses to crime. The 2011 Edition of the Attorney General Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance reflects current statutory provisions, recognizes the technological and legal changes that have taken place since the previous Guidelines were promulgated, and incorporates best practices that will benefit victims and enhance investigations and prosecutions.
Trauma Stewardship
Author: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2009-05-08
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1605095389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beloved bestseller—over 180,000 copies sold—has helped caregivers worldwide keep themselves emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and physically healthy in the face of the sometimes overwhelming traumas they confront every day. A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, or numb or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness we so desperately need if we are to benefit humankind, other living things, and the planet itself. In Trauma Stewardship, we are called to meet these challenges in an intentional way. Lipsky offers a variety of simple and profound practices, drawn from modern psychology and a range of spiritual traditions, that enable us to look carefully at our reactions and motivations and discover new sources of energy and renewal. She includes interviews with successful trauma stewards from different walks of life and even uses New Yorker cartoons to illustrate her points. “We can do meaningful work in a way that works for us and for those we serve,” Lipsky writes. “Taking care of ourselves while taking care of others allows us to contribute to our societies with such impact that we will leave a legacy informed by our deepest wisdom and greatest gifts instead of burdened by our struggles and despair.”
