Between the professional and the private: The meaning of working with intimate partner violence in social workers' private lives

Violence Against Women

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 362-384

  Goldblatt, Hadass ^a   Buchbinder, Eli ^a   Eisikovits, Zvi ^a   Arizon Mesinger, Ilana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Yahel Children Parents Treatment Center

Author keywords

Domestic violence; Phenomenology; Social workers' experience; Work spillover

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; ISRAEL; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 59949096669     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801208330436     Document Type: Article

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