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Intimate Partner Violence: Clinical Interventions with Women, Men, and their Children brings into focus an ecological and clinical frame for addressing the resulting psychological effects of intimate partner violence (IPV). Aymer presents a perspective that is often omitted from social work textbooks which are geared to generalist practice, tending to expose students to macro-systemic ideas (including criminal justice policies and procedures) relative to IPV. However, this book expands clinical social work pedagogy by reinforcing the need for students to go beyond macro issues in order to deliver competent clinically-based interventions that help women, children, and men work though the consequential effects of partner violence. Designed for graduate social work students, it expands the discourse— arguing that IPV is a complex psycho-social-political-relational problem that must be understood from a multi-theoretical perspective. Through case studies, theory, research, and the author’s clinical practice wisdom, this text will: increase understanding of how to work clinically with women affected by IPV, increase knowledge of how to work with abusive men, heighten knowledge of how IPV affects children and adolescents, expand knowledge of social cultural notions, and explore men’s role in terms of advocating against gender-based violence.

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Aymer's brilliant capacity to read the historical, cultural, and racial trends as well as the necessary nuances of the dynamics of domestic violence, sets this book apart. His clinical acuity differentiates his voice. He centers the impact of violence against women, while uniquely recognizing the psychic wounds of those who commit the harm. Aymer's work will be treasured for years to come.--Linda G. Mills, Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor, New York University The organization of Aymer's book makes it an excellent tool for learning about clinical interventions for adults and children impacted by intimate partner violence, as well as learning about sound clinical practice more generally. While clinical case presentations bring the specific topics discussed in each chapter to life, the extremely helpful recommendations to clinicians further elucidate clinical approaches with a clarity and a usefulness that is rarely seen, even in the best clinical texts. The breadth of the information contained in this text is amazing. However, all the more amazing is that Aymer so clearly demonstrates that an understanding of intersectionality and the development of ethno-cultural competency with regard to clinical work cannot be simply an afterthought but must be fully integrated into every aspect of the work.--Richard G. Dudley, M.D., clinical and forensic psychiatrist

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Samuel Aymer is associate professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. For over twenty-five years, Aymer worked as a therapist in the field of intimate partner abuse with abused women and abusive men, as a group facilitator for batterers’ treatment programs, and as a director of training for programs designed to serve victims and abusers of intimate partner abuse and community violence. Moreover, he supervised counselors and therapists who served abused women, children, and abusive men. Currently, his research and scholarship center on the multiple ways in which intimate partner violence (IPV) affects the psychosocial needs of children, women, and men. Sociocultural factors germane to misogyny, race, culture, gender, and patriarchy underpin Aymer’s scholarly pursuits in researching and writing about intimate partner violence.

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