Table Of ContentAFTA SPRINGER BRIEFS IN FAMILY THERAPY
Sandra M. Stith
Chelsea M. Spencer Editors
International
Perspectives
on Intimate
Partner Violence
Challenges and
Opportunities
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International Perspectives
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Challenges and Opportunities
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Series Editor’s Foreword
The AFTA Springer Briefs in Family Therapy is an official publication of the
American Family Therapy Academy. Each volume focuses on the practice and pol-
icy implications of innovative systemic research and theory in family therapy and
allied fields. Our goal is to make information about families and systemic practices
in societal contexts widely accessible in a reader friendly, conversational, and prac-
tical style. AFTA’s core commitment to equality, social responsibility, and justice
are represented in each volume.
In this volume, International Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence:
Challenges and Opportunities, editors Sandra Stith and Chelsea Spencer, renowned
IPV scholars from the United States, took an explicitly decolonizing stance to
address this world-wide phenomenon through the voices of researchers and practi-
tioners intimately familiar with their local contexts. As each chapter author describes
their own work and the sociocultural, legal, and professional contexts of IPV aware-
ness, prevention, and treatment in their communities, readers begin to see both the
many similarities attendant to IPV and the influence of unique differences arising
out of varying sociopolitical contexts.
Reading the whole volume cover to cover, I was particularly struck by the persistence
of IPV even in countries like Finland where gender equity is rated one of the highest in
the world. I was also caught by the tensions between the pulls to maintain family stabil-
ity and reputation and the need to promote safety and well-being for individual partners.
Addressing IPV clearly challenges written and unwritten gender and cultural norms and
is thus part of ongoing societal change. What this means, as well as who is studied and
the focus of intervention, looks different in different social contexts. Like all good schol-
arly accomplishments, this book raises as many questions as answers. By bringing
together so many different international perspectives, the volume offers hope and direc-
tion for increased understanding of the causes, challenges, and opportunities for address-
ing intimate partner violence through a genuinely collaborative exchange.
Carmen Knudson-Martin
AFTA Springer Briefs in Family Therapy
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, Oregon
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AFTA Springer Briefs in Family Therapy
A publication of the American Family Therapy Academy
Founded in 1977, the American Family Therapy Academy is a non-profit organi-
zation of leading family therapy teachers, clinicians, program directors, policymakers,
researchers, and social scientists dedicated to advancing systemic thinking and
practices for families in their social context.
Vision
AFTA envisions a just world by transforming social contexts that promote health,
safety, and well-being of all families and communities.
Mission
AFTA’s mission is developing, researching, teaching, and disseminating progres-
sive, just family therapy and family-centered practices and policies.
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Acknowledgments
We (Sandi and Chelsea) have many people and organizations to thank for making
this book happen. First, we acknowledge the contributions the National Council on
Family Relations (NCFR) made to this book. In 2017, we attended the NCFR and
they announced the theme for the 2018 conference: “Families and Cultural
Intersections in a Global Context: Innovations in Research, Practice, and Policies.”
We knew that we wanted to put together a symposium for the Family Therapy
Section for the conference. Most of the authors of chapters for this book presented
with us at NCFR. When we decided to turn our symposium into a book, all of the
presenters agreed to join us. We are so grateful for the contribution of these col-
leagues, both in the symposium and in this book: Karen Ripoll-Nunez and Anna
Jaramillo-Sierra are professors in Bogota’ Colombia, South America; Fatemeh
Nikparvar, originally from Iran, now serving as clinical director of the University of
Central Missouri; Jingshuai Du was originally from China, but is now earning her
Ph.D. from the University of Maryland; Sandi, Chelsea, Fatemeh, and Jingshuai
worked together on a domestic violence research team at Kansas State University
when Fatemeh and Jingshuai were students; Tatiana Glebova, originally from
Russia, but is now a professor at Alliant University in California; Mona Motal,
originally from India, is a professor at the University of Maryland, and her col-
league, Manjushree Palit, professor at Jindal Global University in India co-authored
the chapter on IPV in India. We loved the symposium and learned so much from this
team, but we realized we had some gaps in our ability to examine domestic violence
from a global perspective without expanding the list of authors. We invited friends
from the United Kingdom, Arlene Vetere and Jan Cooper, who provide services to
families and couples after experiencing domestic violence and are internationally
known domestic violence scholars we have gotten to know from the International
Family Therapy Association (IFTA). We also knew Heli Siltala, Helena Päivinen,
and Juha Holma, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, from IFTA. As the author list
was coming together, I (Sandi) was invited to make a presentation on my work with
couples experiencing situational intimate partner violence in Turkey. At dinner, the
evening after the presentation, Senem Zeytinoğlu Saydam, from Ozyegin University,
Istanbul, and Nesteren Gazioğlu, from Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, agreed
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x Acknowledgments
to write a chapter. At that point, we realized we were missing a scholar from Africa
and from Australia/New Zealand and searched recent publications on domestic vio-
lence from scholars in those continents. We were able to collaborate with
Kolawonyole Oyediran, a scholar publishing work on IPV in Nigeria, Andrew Day
and Stuart Ross from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Devon Polaschek,
from Waikato University, New Zealand.
We are also grateful to the American Family Therapy Academy for highlighting
the importance of social justice and context and for sponsoring the AFTA Springer
Briefs in Family Therapy which allowed us to share our work with a community
who “envision a just world by transforming social contexts that promote health,
safety and well-being of all families and communities” (AFTA vision statement).
We are grateful for the guidance and support we received from our friend, Carmen
Knudsen Martin, series editor from the AFTA Springer Briefs in Family Therapy.
We are both committed members of AFTA, and the focus on social justice fits with
our work, which seeks to eliminate violence in the family.
Contents
1 Intimate Partner Violence Risk and Intervention:
Need for an International Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Sandra M. Stith
2 Intimate Partner Violence in the United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Arlene Vetere and Jan Cooper
3 Intimate Partner Violence in Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Fatemeh Nikparvar
4 Intimate Partner Violence in Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Tatiana Glebova, Natalia Kravtsova, and Natalia Bolotina
5 Intimate Partner Violence in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Jingshuai Du
6 Intimate Partner Violence in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Manjushree Palit and Mona Mittal
7 Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Karen J. Ripoll-Núñez and Ana L. Jaramillo-Sierra
8 Intimate Partner Violence in Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Juha Holma, Helena Päivinen, Heli Siltala, and Salla Kaikkonen
9 Intimate Partner Violence in Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Nesteren Gazioğlu and Senem Zeytinoğlu-Saydam
10 Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Kolawole A. Oyediran
11 Intimate Partner Violence in Australia
and Aotearoa New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Andrew Day, Stuart Ross, and Devon L. L. Polaschek
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