Councils as Empowering Contexts: Mobilizing the Front Line to Foster Systems Change in the Response to Intimate Partner Violence

American Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 208-221

  Javdani, Shabnam ^a   Allen, Nicole E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Coalition; Collaboration; Coordinating council; Coordination; Domestic violence; Empowering; Empowerment; Intimate partner violence; Organizational climate; Systems change

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTNER VIOLENCE; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING COUNCILS; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL CHANGE; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 80855139425     PISSN: 00910562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10464-010-9382-1     Document Type: Article

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