出版社：Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES)
摘要：It is well recognized that trauma of domestic violence has destructive impact on somatic and mental health – hence quality of life. In Poland today’s assistance programs provide a quite wide range of services, including emergency shelter, crisis intervention, support groups and counselling services. While health care providers may be successful at treating the acute effects of domestic violence, these effects are not sufficiently linked to the restoration of victims’ wellness and reestablishment of their connections with the community – hence social inclusion. The aim of this paper is to share with academics and mental health practitioners the experience of developing and piloting training programme for women with domestic violence experience. The objective of this descriptive study is to investigate participants’ reaction to the intervention “Living better with the experience of domestic violence and mental health difficulties”. The training was developed during the DAPHNE III Empowering W♀ project, and conducted in five countries: Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Poland, and United Kingdom. In Warsaw there were five hours workshops twice a month over sixteen weeks with six subsequent refresher sessions conducted once a month. The participants found it to be a very positive experience: effective and supportive. These results need replication and further work to identify what were the preconditions for making it such a worthwhile experience and how this could be replicated on a wider basis.
