3rd International
Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health
July 1-5, 2001 Tampere, Finland
An International Virtual Secretariat was established in Melbourne in 1998 to support this conference series. Conference participants will discuss current and future trends and issues which concern social work, health and mental health. Sharing of innovations, recent developments and challenges in diverse practice and policy areas will provide a rich environment for discussion. New research results and ideas presented will inform our work in health and mental health, stressing critical strengths and areas in which to focus attention and deepen experience.
Sessions
on Violence
C10. Violence: Individual, institutional and structural/systemic
manifestations and interventions related to health and well-being
Co-ordinators:
Dorothy Van Soest
DSW, Professor and Associate Dean, School of Social Work, University of
Texas at Austin, Texas, USA.
E-mail: dvansoest@mail.utexas.edu
Fax: (512) 471-9245
Tel: (512) 471-9600
Postal address: School of Social Work
1925 San Jacinto Blvd.
Austin, TX
78712-1203 USA
Kathleen Mackay
MSW, Social Worker and Program Planner, Domestic Violence Programs,
Vancouver General Hospital and Providence Health Care, Canada.
E-mail: kmackay@vanhosp.bc.ca
Fax: (604) 875-5460
Tel: (604) 875-5458
Postal address: Vancouver General Hospital
920 West 10th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
Canada V5Z IM9
Theme description:
Violence comes in many forms and occurs on many levels. Abstracts were
invited that relate to research, practice, and education related to all
types of violence and their impact on health and well-being. Violence will
be defined, for purposes of abstract review, as "any act or situation in
which a person injures another, including both direct attacks on a person's
physical or psychological integrity and destructive actions that do not
involve a direct relationship between the victim and the perpetrators".
The sub-.themes of the sessions include violence prevention, intervention
research and treatment models, cross cultural perspectives on domestic
violence, issues related to helping professional who deal with violence,
and research on the impacts of violence. Thirty papers will be presented in
8 sessions on violence, including violence against children, women, and
crime-related violence from cross cultural and multilevel perspectives."
Session 1: Violence Prevention, Crime, Multilevel Conception of Violence
including institutional violence.
1. Title: Social Workers in Forensic Mental Health: Contributions to the
Prediction and Management of Risk
of Violence and Recidivism
Author: Palmer Orovwuje, New
Zealand
2. Title: Youth Violence: from Victim to Perpetrator
Author: Blanche pretorius and
Lullu Tshiwula, South Africa
3. Title: What Social Workers can do about Violence: Learning from the
Lives of 37 Men
Author: Dorothy Van Soest and Toni
Johnson, USA
4. Title: Investigating the Co-Occurrence of Mental Illness and Substance
Abuse and Violence
Author: James Herbert Williams and
Richard Van Dorn, USA
Session 2: Intervention Research and Measurement Tools
1. Title: The Measurement of Family Violence
Author: Ranbir Bhatti and Tony
George, India
2. Title: Antisocial Behavior: Measurement Issues and Peer-Group
Interventions
Author: Ronald Feldman, USA
3. Title: Dropout and Completion of Treatment among Spouse Abusers
Author: Gilles Rondeau, et al.,
Canada
4. Title: Intervention Program and Research: A Way to Prevent Schoolyard
Violence
Author: Jean-marc Meunier, Canada
Session 3: Evaluation of Domestic Violence Programs and Interdisciplinary
Issues
1. Title: Vancouver Domestic Violence Unit: Health and Safety Implications
of a Collaborative Social
Service-Police System response to Domestic violence
Author: Robin Cox, Canada
2. Title: Quality Assessment of Social Worker Care in Hospital Emergency
Medicine Departments for Domestic
Violence Victims
Author: Llana Ben Shahar et al,
Israel
3. Title: A Successful Hospital-Based Domestic Violence Intervention Program
Author: Kathleen Mackay, Canada
4. Title: Divide and Rule
Author: P.J. Wilkinson, UK
Session 4: Treatment Models
1. Title: Childhood Trauma and Family Violence: A Multi-Agency Response
Author: Wendy Bunston, Australia
2. Title: Couple/Family Social Work Practice with Trauma Survivors
Author: Kathryn Basham, USA
3. Title: Crime and Trauma: A Case Study of a Schools Trauma Action
Response Pilot Project in Durban,
South Africa
Author: Colin AJ Collett-van
Rooyen, South Africa
4. Title: The powerlessness of Control: A unifying treatment model of male
battering and substance addiction
Author: Natti Ronel, Israel
Session 5: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Domestic Violence
Title: Health and Resilience in Women who survive abuse: Research from
Author: Dr. Liu Meng and Tuula Heinonen, China\
2. Title: The battered women: A sociological study from a woman's
perspective (emphasis on three
married women in Sekondi in Ghana)
Author: Joanna Wilhelmina Mensah,
Ghana
3. Title: Arsenicosis and its impact on culture of domestic violence
against women and children in
Bangladesh
Author: Profulla C. Sarker,
Bangladesh
4. Title: Cross Cultural Dimensions of Violence: Education for a Change
Author: Stan de Mello, et al, USA
and Canada
Session 6: Interventions with and Research on Helping Professionals
1. Title: Child Abuse: Dilemmas at the crossroads of decision making
Author: Yael Stall, et. al, Israel
2. Title: Preliminary findings about the inadequate response from mental
health services to survivors of
childhood sexual abuse
Author: Janet Williams, UK
3. Title: Acknowledging, denhying and hiding domestic violence: An
interdisciplinatry treatment model
in the E.R.
Author: Doron Vilner, et al,
Israel
4. Title: Mental Health Social Work and Political Conflict: The case of
Northern Ireland
Author: Jim Campbell, Ireland
Session 7: Violence and Pregnancy
1. Title: Violence history and its relationship to pregnancy intention
Author: Marjorie Sable, et. al.,
USA
2. Title: Domestic Violence - Enhancement of hospital staff cooperation
Author: Michal Bar-Hava, et. al.,
Israel
3. Title: Domestic violence in pregnancy: Work in progress
Author: Deborah Walsh, Australia
Session 8: Studies of the Effects of Violence on Women
1. Title: Revenge or destroy: A study of suicide and wife abuse in China
Author: Liu Meng, China
Title: Screening risk for intimate partner violence in primary care
settings
Author: Julie Ross, et al, USA
3. Title: Embodied Memories: Sexual violence within public care
Author: Darja Zavirsek, Slovenia
More information:
Anna Metteri
Chair of the Conference
Department of Social Policy and Social Work
FIN-33014 UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE, Finland
e-mail: anna.metteri@uta.fi
Conference Secretariat
CongCreator CC Ltd
PO Box 762
FIN 00101 Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358 9 4542 190
Fax: +358 9 4542 1930
e-mail:swh2001@congcreator.com
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