Reflections on Family Violence in Central America

Intimate Violence Against Women: Trajectories for Pastoral Care in a New Millennium

“…Increasing numbers of Jewish activists published resources (e.g., Russ et al 1993;Twerski 1996;Kaufman et al 2001; for a comprehensive bibliography including a few earlier grassroots articles, see Spiegel 1999), and the film "To Save a Life: Ending Domestic Violence in Jewish Families" was released in 1997 by the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence (Garguilo 1997b). James Poling (1995) wrote on family violence in Nicaragua, Toinette Eugene and Poling wrote Balm for Gilead (1998) addressing pastoral care for abuse in African American families, and Cheryl Kirk-Duggan's (2001 contributed works on violence and theology.…”

“…Since that time, Lewis Rambo, the editor of Pastoral Psychology, is credited with publishing five more articles on the subject between 1994 and 2004, the most of any pastoral theology journal to date (Wood and McHugh 1994;Gross and Stith 1996;Cooper-White 1996a;Burnett 1997, andRotunda et al 2004). 48 The Journal of Pastoral Care/Pastoral Care and Counseling published two articles, a decade apart, between 1995 and 2005 (Poling 1995;Nienhuis 2005), and The Journal of Pastoral Theology published three from 1999 to 2004, including a literature review (Neuger 1999), the first article on pastoral theologians' teaching on domestic violence in the Journal of Pastoral Theology (Cooper-White 2004), and an article on Korean victims of domestic violence (Kwon and Doehring 2004). Iona College's Journal of Pastoral Counseling recently published an 44 Important sources for this argument include Lamb 1999, and from the Restorative Justice perspective, Stubbs (2002) and Grauwiler and Mills (2004).…”